Match of the NIght (The Valiants)

This is from Indianapolis again and this includes tv announcer Sam Menacker giving the famous line...

"We will bring you as much of this match as time will allow"

The Valiant Brothers

(Handsome Jimmy and Luscious Johnny)

vs

Wilbur Snyder and Dominic DeNucci

Match of the Night (Cowboy Bob Ellis vs Bobby Heenan)

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Approx 1973-74 

Air Conditioned Expo Center

"Cowboy" Bob Ellis

vs

"Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan

 

Match of the Night (All Star Championship Wrestling)

From Indianapolis in the Mid 70s, this is why I fell in love with wrestling.  Watching All Star Championship Wrestling with Sam Mennaker.
Great legends like we see here along with Bruno Sammartino, The Valiant Brothers, Dick The Bruiser, Ox Baker, Baron Von Raschke, Ernie Ladd, Pretty Boy Bobby Hennan and the list goes on...it was a great time to be a kid and watching wrestling on TV.

"The World's Most Scientific Wrestler" Wilbur Snyder

and

Pepper Gomez (The Man With the Cast Iron Stomach)

vs

Mitsu Arikawa and Great Saki

Battle of the Bruisers

From approx. 1980 is a match where Dick the Bruiser was seeking "revenge" for Brody and Jimmy Valiant breaking Spike Huber's leg in a match a few months earlier.  Huber was the #2 face in the territory behind Bruiser and was his son in law at the time.
There had been a series of matches between King Kong Brody and Dick the Bruiser a couple of years earlier with the gimmick that they were battling for the use of the name "Bruiser".   Brody was never able to use "Bruiser" in the Indianapolis promotion owned by Dick the Bruiser but everywhere else in the world he used that nickname.
Tells you the power of Dick the Bruiser and his money in getting Brody to agree to use only King Kong while working for him.
As a kid watching this I had never seen anyone like Brody and he was fascinating and thrilling to watch.