Every Texas Heavyweight Champion
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Texas Heavyweight Championship has a rich history with some of the biggest names in professional wrestling holding the title. We'll take a look at every champion from The Lone Star State over a 60 year span. This is not a deep dive and simply a list of the champions, but we will take a look at some interesting points along the way.
Edit: After this video had been up for a week I received a copyright claim. I don't know if it's legit or not, but I have found these things are more trouble to fight than they are worth. A couple of segments have been trimmed out due to this. Fortunately it doesn't change the meat of the video and the segments only contained extra information.
Note: I mistakenly said Peter Maivia was Rocky Johnson's father when he is obviously Rocky Johnson's father-in-law. Start piecing together 90 years of title history and a slip of the tongue is bound to happen.
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I love all these old photos. Some pretty crazy physiques back in the day. Sputnik Monroe sounds like an awesome guy!
He was an interesting dude. Amazing that a pro wrestler sparked that kind of change in Memphis.
It's cuz they didn't do individual lifts ( necessarily) they did clean n jerks, bench, military press, flys, curls. There wasn't cable machines for isolation etc etc .
I don't know a whole lot about weight lifting back then, so take this with caution. Lol. Just my semi educated guess/answer
@@Sammy_Boy_Smith what's interesting is that steroids began being used in the 50s. I think you're right though, it's more about the change in lifting culture and new machines being invented later. Changing from strong men routines of old to more bodybuilding/powerlifting stuff
@@AViewFromTheMiddle I love his skunk stripe hair. Pretty cool to see the origins of different types of flamboyant heel gimmicks
Excellent chronology of the Texas title. Lots of familiar names and great memories.
Wild Red Berry once got the secret word. It was inevitable. There was no stopping him.
@@panelvixen And spurred some find memories of Miss Brown.
I'm pretty sure I was at that show in San Antonio, when David beat Bill Irwin. I remember him winning the title. It was I think my first show.
This was the first title i remember. I was born in 1972, so i was only 5 when David won it, but im from, and still live in Denton County Texas aka Von Eric mecca
Gino Hernandez, "I am your champion!"
Love these videos. I came into wrestling in the mid 80's wwf, I love learning about other promotions.
David Von Erich was the best
In the latter days of WCCW which it was called then the USWA due to fritz von erich selling the promotion i dont know if eric embry was a world heavyweight champion. that title had some prestige. great video 👍
He never held the World title, but he was the World Class light heavyweight champion, which is what they would call the cruiserweight today.
@AViewFromTheMiddle I see thank you for the info
Pepper Gomez was profilic. He had a great look to him. You can see there were a lot of texican champs
Pepe Gonzalez? Interesting... Might want to ask Al Getz from Charting the Territories podcast, I believe he is active on X
@TheImapotato Yeah I've thought about asking Jim Cornette or someone like that. It's weird there is so little on the guy out there.
My grandpa used to watch wrestling matches in fort worth in the late 30s and early 40s. He said he saw 2 guys one night just beat each other to a bloody pulp. The next morning he went to a Cafe where he usually went for coffee and breakfast and seen those 2 guys eating breakfast together. He said he lost interest in wrestling after that. I wonder if those 2 guys were on this list haha. Possibly so.
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I watched the awards show from my couch. I was too lazy to get up and leave a comment. ha.
@@AViewFromTheMiddle lol 😂 don’t blame you if you can get cool and comfy stay that way
OMG did Tully ever look exactly like his dad WOW
He sure did. There was no denying him.
Yes he looked exactly like him. My gosh.
Man: i soooooo appreciate this video!
I can go look it up and just see the names at stupid Wikipedia!
But you took it a step further and gave us a wonderful story on the timeline of the Texas Heavyweight Championship!
💪 💪 💪 subbed you up, sir: 🫡 from afar in South Shore, Massachusetts!
Wooooooooo!
@@daveschannel747 I appreciate that. Yeah, I've seen other title videos and it was just pictures and music but I wanted to do something more than that. I learned a lot doing this video too.
Peter Maivia was the Father in Law to Rocky Johnson. Not Father.
@@lamontbradford4630 Oh nuts. Your right. I don't know what I was thinking. Well, dig through 90 years of Texas title history and something will go wrong.
good job my friend L31