Buddy "Killer" Austin vs Dave Cox 3/9/1966 professional Wrestling From the Olympic wild beating

[@broncw]

A real treat to an old LA wrestling fan. Thank you!

[@WrestlingFilms1]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@marktorak5578]

There should be more Buddy Austin matches. The best Era of pro wrestling

[@risboturbide9396]

One of the best matchs from the 60's, for sure. Thank you man!

[@dmitrivlogs7610]

Austin had great mic skills, too. His locker room interviews with Dick Lane at the Olympic Auditorium oftentimes turned into brawls. Great heat!

[@maddogwrestlingfan]

Loved the match.. I'm a fan of the Olympic and its history of Pro Wrestling.. With that said I was thrilled to death to see a Buddy Austin match.. The Killer really lived up to the moniker.. Thank you for uploading these treasures...

[@WrestlingFilms1]

You're very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it, Austin didn't disappoint me after only reading about him for years.

[@anothonypeterson3402]

I agree.Thanks for this footage.I only knew Austin from pictures-Great to see him on film.He reminds me of my favorite of all time-Buddy Colt! ...TONY

[@joeblow7407]

Buddy Austin and Buddy Colt modeled themselves after the greatest.......Buddy Rogers!

[@johnmiller6867]

Standing across the ring from the " Killer " Buddy Austin must have given young Danny Cox butterflies in his stomach. I would have bet my paycheck that the second fall would be the last I must be a sadist, but I would have paid to see a three out of five fall match. Buddy Austin was wicked in a good way, and great to watch. A well deserved WIN !.

[@rphall4504]

I remember seeing him on television from Capitol Wrestling in Washington DC. He was a dangerous man there, although he spent a brief period as a face.

[@catyear75]

Let me be the first to thank you for this incredibly rare footage ! I've heard so much about Buddy "Killer" Austin, to finally see him in action is just amazing. He was far ahead of his time ! What a great ring presence. Villains emulated his tactics for generations after. Great match!

[@WrestlingFilms1]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've only read about Austin myself. I was very happy to get the film and when I viewed it he didn't disappoint.

[@busch231]

I don't believe I've ever heard of Buddy Austin, but I like the way he muscles his boy down to the mat and begins a systematic punishment of the arm and hand. The young stud Cox is built for abuse, and Buddy delivers plenty. Lots of bootwork and neck work-overs. What a manly knee to the mid-section at 10:22. Buddy teaches Cox who's boss in the first fall and then reinforces the message in the second fall. Thanks for the download.

[@libra42ful]

boots, i couldnt keep my hand off the bulge of my tighty whities while watching this...and they were being sttttretched...great near squash match, my fav, big cocky mean heel breakin in a young prettyboy and enjoying it to COMPLETION....twice in a row, love it when the jobbing humpdoll doesnt even get a pinfall, adds to the humiliation factor, which there was plenty of in this great vintage match

[@busch231]

Dave Cox is a ballsy jobber. Would like to see more of him. Buddy Austin is just the heel to treat Cox to a bootful of manhandling. One of the great things about the vintage wrestling era when we had best-two-out-of-three matches was that the heel could punish the jobber severely in the first fall and then, after a brief break, plow into his prey a second time and begin work anew on the jobber's already weakened limbs.

[@libra42ful]

I totally agree, also, i liked how the holds were held at length allowing more "ride" time for the wrestler in control, usually the heel, and when its a 2 out of 3 falls match, lottttts a time for great punishment and humiliation, im only 48, but i love this vintage stuff so much more than anything after the mid 80s really....rougher, more manly, rough house "rasslin" the kind of wrestling that always stiffened me up as a young boy

[@TheHairyarmpitlover]

I totally agree with you guys! A perfect example of older dominating younger muscle. Buddy drew in a buff but naive Dave Cox who had a great 60's body builder physique with my preferred pecs hair retention. Dave always moved in too quickly to a downed Buddy only to get a fist or boot in response. Killer Austin simply weakened every muscle dept on Dave's beautiful body and in the end totally controlled him. The two piledrivers after such punishment saw the end of Dave Cox's resistance with a full upper body cover from Buddy to humiliate beautiful Dave who laid sprawled out on canvas for some time exhausted from the decimation of an alpha man. Very stimulating boner man on man action

[@terrycg]

Thank you so much for showing this. I've always wanted to see Buddy Austin wrestling. I wish footage still existed from Wash. D.C., when Buddy Austin and the Great Scott defeated Buddy Rogers and Johnny Barend for the WWWF U.S. Tag Team Titles.

[@WrestlingFilms1]

You're very welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed the match. I feel lucky that I was able to finally get film of him.

[@AlmostLegalProposal]

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[@ianburton6071]

Thank you for finding and posting this excellent piece of classic professional wrestling.

[@WrestlingFilms1]

You're welcome, I'm glad you liked it.

[@staintong]

Buddy Austin was a star in Australia but he had a bad experience on his first tour. He was knifed in a fight in a bar in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross and was lucky to have survived the assault. He toured again about two years later.

[@mda1218]

def not best man with 🔪

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

A lot of buddy's body language is VERY Stunning Steve

[@busch231]

What makes a wrestling match between a jobber and a heel ideal? I’ve read hundreds of notes posted by fans beneath KZbin wrestling matches between heels and jobbers and have found that while no single match satisfies all criteria for a fan favorite, the following elements draw the most consistently favorable responses: 1) “THE MANAGER” - Though most matches involving heels do not include a “manager” at ringside, and some managers are intrusive in the wrong ways (blocking the camera’s view of the action, for example), the right manager can add a lot. A) The manager should be a (probably former) burly heel himself. He should have an identity as a vicious bully who will do anything to crush a jobber or any opponent. Freddie Blassie and The Iron Sheik are perfect examples. B) The manager should enter the ring with his heel, preferably with some respectful or subservient gesture from the heel, and engage in the pre-match verbal intimidation of the jobber. So much the better if the manager and the heel double-team the jobber by jawing at him threateningly and in unison. Let the soiling of the jobber’s trunks begin. C) Once the manager is outside the ring and the match starts, he should take every opportunity to resume threatening and intimidating the jobber, especially when the heel is punishing the jobber at the ropes near the manager. Jaw vigorously at the hapless jobber. Ratchet up the verbal abuse while the jobber already is getting a thorough working over. D) When the heel tosses the jobber outside the ring, the manager should put the boots to the jobber and then push him back into the ring to take more of the heel’s abuse. E) When the match ends, ideally by a submission, the manager should re-enter the ring promptly and either get in some final licks of his own or distract the referee at length so the heel can exert greatly extended punishment of the already-defeated jobber. By now the jobber should be thrashing frantically on the mat and unable to free himself from the submission hold. 2) THE HEEL should be either very well-conditioned or even possibly paunchy in a way that suggests experience, authority and complete boss-like control. He should be a good-looking dude and/or with a visible mean streak or ultra cocky attitude. Buzz Sawyer and Arn Anderson exemplify this in different ways. Ordinary wrestling masks are fine. (No one in a mask was quite as domineering as The Spoiler and Devil Blue.) But absurd attire such as jungle makeup or any other freakish appearance is threatening in the wrong way. The heel should be charismatic, not a creature from a horror movie. A) The heel should be attired if possible in an especially virile way to connote his dominance. The Big Boss Man wore a partial police uniform (but should have removed the shirt); his nightstick was usually visible in anticipation of post-match abuse. In the mid-1980s, The Road Warriors wore leather chaps throughout matches. Blackjack Mulligan always wore big cowboy boots and sometimes wore his leather chaps throughout a match. The Mod Squad wore tall motorcycle cop boots. The State Patrol did, also. Bill Dundee stood only 5-foot-7. but his cowboy boots heightened his heel image, just as Cowboy Bill Watts’ boots had decades earlier. Waldo Von Erich wore Nazi attire, including jackboots. Arn Anderson wore the sharpest-looking wrestling boots (often red and white) and always seemed to be bursting out of his tight trunks. B) The heel should begin verbal intimidation as soon as he enters the ring and continue it throughout. When a jobber is lying on the mat, rolling around or kneeling, the heel should taunt him loudly to get up and take his punishment like a man. C) Although some heels use a variety of abusive tactics, fans appreciate those who work over a specific region of the body, as when Arn Anderson destroys a left arm or the Iron Sheik works over a jobber’s back. A figure-four specialist such as Greg Valentine or Buddy Landell should start punishing at least one leg early and often. The jobber should fail repeatedly to escape the abuse. D) The heel should not be too quick to end a match triumphantly. Life is most rewarding when the journey itself is enjoyed. Thus the heel should abuse his jobber methodically and at length. Work over one or more limbs again and again for the sheer pleasure of domination. Don’t pin the jobber at the first opportunity. Yank him up repeatedly to savor the abuse more. (Col. DeBeers was a master at this; check out his match with Mike Richards.) E) If, for example, the heel has been working over the jobber’s right leg to soften him up for a figure-four gravevine, the jobber should try to hobble to the ropes to get traction. That’s a great opportunity for the heel to approach the jobber from behind and to drive a boot firmly up into the back of the thigh or the back of the knee to drop the jobber to the mat in agony. F) A one-two-three pin after a simple suplex is joyless for heel fans. They want their favorite heels to build toward a protracted submission hold. They want a jobber to submit compliantly and obediently and then thrash about and shout for mercy all the while the heel pours on the abuse more and more ruggedly. The greatest submission holds are the figure-four grapevine and all of its variations, the camel clutch, the claw, the Boston crab (or Texas crab - it has many names), and the hoisting into the air (a la George The Animal Steele) of a jobber whose arm has been pummeled and stomped mercilessly. G) A heel should rarely if ever conclude the match at the moment of submission. He should prolong the submission hold for as long as he possibly can. When finally he stands in triumph, he should hoist his biceps upward, possibly with a boot planted on the jobber’s chest or belly. H) The heel then he should re-apply the hold even more vigorously than before. After a masterfully applied and sustained figure-four, the heel should resume stomping and booting the wounded limb. George Steele would nail the jobber’s hand to the mat with one boot while stomping the hapless arm with the other boot both during and after the match. Bill Dundee, in a tag team match with partner Buddy Landell, conquered and mercilessly abused jobber Jim Jamison. After winning, Dundee and Landell continued to thrash Jamison. Then Dundee tossed him out of the ring so he and Landell could resume a severe beating of the hapless jobber. Dundee in particular was a studly pit bull of a heel.) I) If, as was often the case many years ago, the jobber is removed from the ring on a stretcher, the heel should stand by and prepare to boot the jobber back off the stretcher and attack yet another time his hobbled victim. J) Matches involving the best-out-of-three falls were discontinued years ago. Such matches in the 1950s and 1960s allowed for the stretching of each match to help fill TV shows running 90 minutes or two hours but without employing more wrestlers. Two-out-of-three-fall jobber-heel matches could run 15-20 minutes instead of the three to five minutes that became common later. When the two-out-of-three fall era ended, a heel-jobber value was lost. A heel back in those days, such as Buddy Rogers or Freddie Blassie or Killer Kowalski or Waldo Von Erich, could punish a jobber’s limb severely in the first fall, causing the jobber to limp or crawl back to his corner during the commercial break. When the action resumed in the second fall, the sadistic heel would dart across the ring and immediately resume working over the jobber’s already tortured arm or leg. But the jobber could never submit right away; that would not be allowed when the heel was merely booting and stomping on the injured limb. The jobber had to wait to be pinned (a dull finish) or to have the original submission move applied a second time. 3) THE JOBBER should be physically fit and well-proportioned, although a bit of flab can serve the image of hapless punch-toy image, too. Under no circumstances should he be skinny or otherwise weak in appearance. Fans want to see husky studs punished, ala Mike Richards, Dale Veasey or Rick McGraw - not skinny, helpless kids. A) The jobber shouldn’t appear to be cocky. He should look apprehensive about the beating that is about to be administered to him. He should reek of fear and compliance. B) When being punished, a jobber should holler and groan in pain. Few do this, but Mike Richards often sold his matches by yelling and groaning in misery. C) The jobber can resist the heel’s punishment but never too effectively. The fan wants the jobber’s submission, not his rebelliousness. The jobber should exhibit a wearing down of resistance and a surrender to punishment. D) It’s fine if the jobber tries to get traction by grabbing the heel’s leg or torso. He’s feeling the muscles that are punishing him. E) When finally the jobber is subdued by a submission hold, he should surrender loudly and with flailing limbs, kicking his legs with suffering and trying with all his might to grab the air or latch onto the domineering heel. The jobber should appear to try anything to stop the immobilizing pain. F) After the jobber’s submission and the heel’s eventual surrender of the jobber’s limbs, the jobber should (if he can move at all) writhe on the mat, too much in pain to resist any further post-match abuse … which he surely should get. G) If the heel is anywhere near the wounded jobber as the jobber leaves the ring area (seldom shown), the heel should suggest he’s following the jobber back to the dressing room where the heel might lock the door for privacy and resume the discipline.

[@marktorak5578]

I have pro wrestling magazines from 1967 that talk about Buddy Austin

[@mda1218]

old dude is alpha here! took it and gave it like a MAN! hot to see him slowly soften up the younger Cox with man2man punishment... Cox was game, but his punches didn't do the damage that Austin's did: good example of holds and fists to prove whose best man here...

[@robdaniel2598]

hARD ON ACTION LOVE THE VISCIOUS BLOND.................!!!!

[@johnmiller8233]

Like to see more DAVE COX matches

[@SirManfly]

awww....i wanted my Buddy "Killer" Austin interview ! oh well it was a neat old time match.

[@larrystroh233]

The ring looks huge.

[@colinduff2922]

Buddy Austin toured Australia on 3 occasions. There should be some footage of his matches....probably in the vaults of Channel 9 (Sydney).The infamous "incident" in Kings Cross when Austin & Pedro Morales were knifed got a lot of press coverage in Australia.

[@marktorak5578]

How about some Buddy Austin vs Mark Lewin matches 1966 and 1967

[@eddielester3589]

Jimmy Lennon....what a voice.So distinguished.

[@davecolker]

got any more buddy video? let me know. or Bob Austin

[@WrestlingFilms1]

That's all I have of Buddy. I'd love to find some more film of him.

[@JagoBC]

Those ropes are huge!

[@stevedubzz]

2:23 omg that had to hurt lol

[@RichFrisk]

Great to see Buddy Austin, excellent wrestler. If this was taped at the Olympic why no Dick Lane?

[@WrestlingFilms1]

I believe this was when Lane was out after being injured by Mae Young. She had grabbed him during an interview and he ended up out for a while.

[@paulbright5081]

Ref didn't even bother to lift the Killer's hand after the match... total disrespect!

[@deeboy5588]

Any remember when Buddy Austin pearl harbored Mark Lewin during locker room interviews? Dick Lane actually caught a foot to the jewels. Poor old Dick. Another bad boy was Skull Murphy. I think Bobo Brazil sent Skull packing. Good times for a 9 year old kid!

[@mda1218]

his big tanks were always 🎯 🤢

[@joeblow7407]

Supposedly Buddy accidently killed a man with the pile driver!!!!!..........Hence his nick name!!!!!

[@voodoo49]

Heard that story, only it was about Killer Kowalski

[@jdouglas1327]

Poor Dave.

[@anothonypeterson3402]

joe blow-Ric Flair was the third man to model himself after Buddy Rogers. ...TONY

[@ashleyforester4283]

austin v eric the red in geo cannons territory austin a job guy by that point

[@416freddy]

Good heel and jobber match.

[@robdaniel2598]

augh yeah.... hot mega hot....

[@mda1218]

100% male … 👊🏼

[@anothonypeterson3402]

Terrible commentator-that wasn't neck-breaker,it was Austin's famous piledriver! He should have done his homework.