Giant Haystacks vs. Marty Jones

The Giant against The Champion. A great match from 1985.

[@rizmirza1829]

Played the baddie and did it in style, as others have said a total gentleman met him with my father outside Battersea town hall (Wrestling venue) Just a polite nice guy. RIP thanks for the lovely memories

[@robertlee8778]

Golden days and a man who was 1 of a kind a gentle giant

[@stevenwade7466]

Miss those days so much .Haystacks wrestled in Morecambe a few times really should of gone to see him .He used to pop in a friends butcher shop in Morecambe.

[@jeremyhowell8235]

I love how the commentators play along with the choreography and deliver serious comments as though it were a genuine contest.

[@mrgobrien]

i remember this match - the commentary stopped at 4:00 because the production crew ran from ringside thinking that Haystacks might crash out of the ring!

[@pablotorres6580]

Genial este gigante gordito pero agil y rápido para su tremenda humanidad . Es como el primo o hermano de andré el gigante genial video del recuerdo de la clásica lucha libre mundial en Estados Unidos en los años 70 tas y 80 tas. Genial época de la lucha libre fue en esos años y luchas más reales. Saludos desde chile un fans de la lucha libre mundial or siempre.

[@MrTsuruta1000]

Giant Haystacks aka "Loch Ness" in WCW. RIP 🌈💐🙏🏽

[@michaelohare3157]

Unlike today’s wrestling, when they say the ring moved.. it actually does in original British wrestling!

[@normangrimm4581]

That's a small freaking ring! Miracle it didn't collapse!

[@DjTractus]

Not bad Marty played to his strengths and they worked a simple but effective psychology, you get the big man down and wear him out he loses.

[@himarkburdett9378]

Remember in the late 70s as a schoolboy watching Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy appear at the local Civic Hall unfortunate referee got into the wrong place at the wrong time and with sandwich between haystacks and Daddy. The St John's Ambulance had to stretcher him out the ring

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

R.I.P GIANT HAYSTACKS !!!!!!!

[@mda1218]

6:05... Jones goes to that huge gut and chin and softens up the huge slab of beef in corner... Giant gives AND takes it like Champ here

[@nealspilsbury8639]

2 proper wrestlers marty was brilliant

[@davidfrost2819]

The audience knew the result before it even started

[@fblassie]

That ring announcer has a hell of a jacket.

[@johnny5805]

That's Big Daddy's little brother Max.

[@garethbramley1]

@@johnny5805 No, it's not Max - it's Brian. Max (his brother also) was the promoter - you never saw him on TV.

[@thewomble1509]

@@garethbramley1 He did appear occasionally.

[@johnny5805]

I had forgotten all about "public warnings" ! How quaint !

[@rickrick5041]

That did a lot

[@cdwattie]

at 5.55 you can see that haystacks is telling marty right make it look good for a few mins a very nice guy outside the ring was haystacks very unlike the man in the ring we all see very soft spoken guy went to church every sunday

[@garethbramley1]

I heard that. But in the ring he was a bastard. I'll never forget him saying 'no more mr. nice guy'. To think he used to be Daddy's tag partner previously.

[@TJ-di2cx]

Forget XL, his shirt size must have been 'sofa'!

[@jacksugden8190]

Must be uncomfortable being 45 stone

[@spudhandle]

legit 10 count like boxing....

[@toddlecher4097]

big ol boy

[@mickmackem1479]

Eddie hall dad

[@jq747]

FYI, 45 stone = 630 pounds 8-()

[@rickrick5041]

Bigger than Andre

[@mandoprince1]

@@rickrick5041 Although Andre was billed as being well over 7 foot, I think they were both about 6'11 peak height, though Haystacks had clearly lost a lot of height by the time he appeared in WCW.

[@rickrick5041]

@@mandoprince1 How would he lose a lot of height? He wasn’t old enough

[@mandoprince1]

@@rickrick5041 It's quite common for someone to lose a little height by their late forties, though a loss of several inches tends to be something which occurs later. I think taller people tend to be more prone to height loss, but probably the biggest factors here were his great weight and health problems🤔

[@astraman12345678]

30 stone difference not 40

[@thewomble1509]

No more than 6' 6" and 32 stone tops.

[@astraman12345678]

@@thewomble1509 no

[@thewomble1509]

@@astraman12345678 Why, because you say so?

[@astraman12345678]

@@thewomble1509 yawn

[@michaelstevens630]

I had heard that Haystacks wore ladies red french knickers under his costume.

[@PlaidPenguinGaming]

If he did they’d have been fucking massive

[@rick182z]

Don't you wish you saw it

[@findmyage2787]

I Was his 3 cousin 😏

[@johnfellows2867]

My granny had more wrestling skill than Haystacks, so fat he could hardly move !

[@garethbramley1]

He never did any wrestling.

[@honoredutrey]

It's not about wrestling skills.It's about acting skills.

[@glenmorgan4597]

Haystacks was ripped

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

Good grief, the ring really did move 6 inches at 6:52

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

No more Mr Nice Guy

[@garethbramley1]

I remember this one. Jones must have been mad getting in the ring with this huge bulk - a risk to his career. Poor third man in the ring - Gordon Pryor. Haystacks was just a filthy, fat cheat! Never did any real wrestling.

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

R I P Martin

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

R I P Luke

[@philiplawton7546]

all 50 STONE OF MARTIN RUANE

[@aaronbuffalo7769]

Met Haystacks when i was around 13, shortly before he died of cancer.

[@abhishekdurgakeri9587]

This man didn't fight andre diring 1980s

[@positivityandpeace4718]

Yes he did

[@abhishekdurgakeri9587]

@@positivityandpeace4718 then where is the video please tell me

[@hughtempleton737]

There are photographs but no video.

[@rickrick5041]

@@hughtempleton737 what happened

[@diggers7169]

Doesn’t look like a fair contest 😂

[@honoredutrey]

It's not a contest.It's a show.

[@satanicpoet]

My grandad use to think this was real 😂 then i showed him ecws duddly boyz puttin everyone through tables i know that fake too but it more beliveible

[@rick182z]

what's the point if its fake