HONKY TONK MAN ON WRESTLING LOU THESZ

THE HONKY TONK MAN ON WRESTLING LOU THEZ
Longest reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion of all time and GNW star "The Honky Tonk Man" talks about being in the ring with legendary NWA world champion and one of the greatest wrestlers of all time Lou Thez.
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[@NathanArnoldCharging]

The business needs more people like Lou Thesz, to weed out the ones who don't belong in the business.

[@bumblebeemoi]

Lordy, lordy, Nathan. if that happened today, who would be left? LOL!

[@NathanArnoldCharging]

The cream of the crop (-:

[@tehfawkinman]

NathanArnoldCharging lmao amen to that!

[@Kfowlkes09]

+NathanArnoldCharging No one in pro wrestling. That "cream" left and joined up with another sport. Called MMA.

[@NathanArnoldCharging]

Wrestling Historian Bernkastel You realize not every professional wrestler, joins MMA, don't you?! Bradshaw & Faarooq never joined MMA - yet, they weeded out the weak ones. Bob Holly's never joined up with MMA - yet, he weeds out the weak ones. Pro wrestling isn't ballet, as much as you'd like it to be.

[@TheCodedtestament]

Lou Thesz His run from 1949-1955 cemented the National Wrestling Alliance as the powerhouse in wrestling. Thesz also unified the National Wrestling Alliance title with the World Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association).

[@grawakendream8980]

sort of

[@leftylou6070]

I know Hiro Matsuda. He used to have a wrestling school in Tampa right close to the Brisco Brothers body shop. That's who Hulk Hogan trained for. That had to have been in the late 70's.

[@dildonius]

Mid-1970s.

[@leftylou6070]

@@dildonius Right-on, Fritz!

[@dildonius]

@@leftylou6070 Also the mid-1970s! :O

[@leftylou6070]

@@dildonius Keep on Truckin' Mr. Crumb, Keep on Truckin' !

[@dildonius]

@@leftylou6070 Meh. I prefer Robert Bakshi's Fritz over R. Crumb's Fritz.

[@eastsidebeastkidx2444]

HTM a great guy speaks his mind and never backs down.

[@grawakendream8980]

this may have been Dec. 4, 1978 Lou with Koko Ware and Robert Gibson vs Bill Dromo, Terry Sawyer and Wayne Ferris at the Mid-South. Main event Lawler vs Tommy Gilbert

[@Phoenix7786]

Jeez I know they said Lou was a legit "hooker" (as in a wrestler who would lock in shoot holds when the whim suited him) and just the stories HTM shares are scary.

[@grawakendream8980]

thesz was of a different era and mentality

[@grawakendream8980]

still looking for a singles match with ferris and lou. not saying it didn't happen, just interested in the historical record

[@hellermountain]

He was a teacher! That's great!

[@johnpaulmarkfilip]

This would be like Mike Trout talking about playing baseball with Babe Ruth early on in his career for perspective

[@loganmyall660]

I really, really like honkey. He's pissed in my toilet. That's generous, and he'd agree if he knew baseball

[@jonathanhensley6141]

The old school trainers weeded out the weak people and made sure u wanted to be a wrestler.

[@GuildsmanPirate]

Looking at HTM gleam over Thesz telling him he wants to wrestle him again, that warmed my heart

[@tritchie6272]

From an interview I watched I got the feeling that Thez was a Wrestlers Wrestler who was trained to legit Wrestle. And trained strict and rough by some rough trainers in a rough time. From everything I've heard it sounds to me like he resented people that couldn't actually Wrestle. And he worked alot during a time when you had to worry about a double cross in the Ring. I guess some of those real oldtimers were pretty rough at times.Weird to me how rough some of them could be. But I guess things were different back then.

[@lendrury2771]

Thesz didn't need all this newfangled mma bullshit He knew how to grapple and put you on your ass old school style

[@fcrossface7875]

TRUE...LT ACTUALLY DIDNT LIKE MMA...REAR NAKED CHOKE...DIRTY HOLD

[@donmajestic5258]

Fair enough. The old man would test a kid to see what he knew, what he had in him.

[@tonyd7601]

Lou was a bad ass...I wonder if he went in the dungeon with Bret Harts Daddy. He and Lou were borh in the teens and in the same business. 

[@lizardman77]

Don't know, but Lou stated although Stu had some wrestling ability he wasn't quite as good on the mat as his "dungeon" rep would lead people to believe. Jack Brisco said Stu was good at showing you holds as long you let him put them on you. Lou, Brisco, Danny Hodge, Karl Gotch and Billy Robinson were all a league above Stu.

[@tonyd7601]

Good answer. I remember seeing Lou Theiz as a kid knew he was the real thing.

[@TheStuport]

Jon&Karis Mitchell Agreed. I have always thought that "pound for pound" Danny Hodge was the best as far as pure skill goes...but just my opinion. Cheers!

[@tonyd7601]

***** on A podcast the director of the Wrestling something or other said Hodge was the toughest shoot fighter ever. I think you're right. Never saw Hodge as a kid. Saw Lou Thiez

[@TheStuport]

Anthony Danes I never saw Hodge or Theze. I first saw "Rasslin" on Oahu TV in Hawaii...Dad was stationed there as a USAF pilot. my brothers and I would see the "same" wrestlers we saw on KGMB channel 9 on the beaches in Honolulu...and another "mark" was born! I'm very respectful of other generational wrestlers so history a big deal at least to me. I will always wipe my feet before entering the hallowed Squared Circle! Cheers my man!

[@ecrooter]

Not 1 drop of hair dye

[@jazzmanchgo]

Heh -- First time I've ever heard a Southerner actually pronounce Louisville as "Looie-ville"!!!

[@JustinJaiC.]

David Whiteis Isn't it pronounced "Lul-vull"?

[@jazzmanchgo]

Yeah, something like that . . . I remember when Muhammad Ali passed away (who, of course, was from Louisville), I could always tell whether a news commentator was from the South or not, simply by the way he or she pronounced the name of that town!