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Post by jetlag on Jan 8, 2018 11:35:23 GMT -5
People asked for a comedy match, here is a comedy match. British to the max.
Full review:
Johnny Czeslaw was a baldheaded polish toughguy who looked like a roman senator and survived a russian concentration camp as a boy, but seemingly enjoyed doing light hearted comedic technical wrestling a lot. Kellett is one of those 1 in 1000 characters that you have to see once in your life. This is easily the greatest comedy match ever. Even with all the jest going on here, they keep it highly competitive and do all these great moves and holds, especially Czeslaw who is such a wrestling master. Les Kellett, for a crusty old charlatan, wasn't afraid to take reckless bumps. The facial expressions, timing and body language on display here were incomparable. The jokes had an almost silent film like quality to it, and they never exposed the business. This match was funny, fascinating and impossibly british all at once.
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Post by gordi on Jan 8, 2018 11:49:57 GMT -5
Seconded. I hope this project will hand me some new matches to love that I have not seen before. Here is the first one.
This match is so unique and charming. It's genuinely, laugh-out-loud funny while being almost impossibly civilized * and * it is a damn fine example of the British Pro Wrestling of the early 1970s. There is a comedy spot that they do between the first and second rounds that is as funny and clever as anything I have ever seen in a wrestling ring. Nothing they do stretches the limits of believability.
In the right light and from certain angles, Czeslaw really resembles a 70s version of Bas Rutten.
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Post by Cap on Jun 19, 2019 18:09:04 GMT -5
Third
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Post by yojianjodefence on Jul 19, 2022 3:48:29 GMT -5
One of the greatest comedy matches of all time. Kellet really was the prototype for Regal's callbacks to British sitcom and phsyical comedian shtick and this is a really good showcase for it. Always loved the priceless anecdote about Kellet in Simon Garfields book The Wrestling "... He kept hogs and things"
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Post by elliott on Aug 28, 2023 18:15:05 GMT -5
Hard to beat this if you're looking for a comedy match. And for one to have so much skill & technique makes it feel particularly special. Just good fun.
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