The Sheik vs Mark Lewin
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2015
- Damn the original Sheik (Ed Farhat) was one nutty dude from bell to bell. This one is for the US Heavyweight Championship and "explodes" at the end of this "loser-leaves-town "match. Watch Classic Wrestling OnDemand at vimeo.com/ondemand/classicwre...
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What a genius move by mark to play the crowd like that
Like watching old classic Horror movie.. Frankenstein vs Dracula
I was proud when I was a kid the sheik was my 1st cousin totally awesome They would come to my local school in Detroit and have private matches my dad would set it up awesome
Remember when I was young, about 1966, watching the Sheik and was terrified he was going to actually kill someone in the ring. I didnt know any better at the time. But he and Mark Lewin always had great matches, along with Bobo Brazil. Thats when wrestling still had an aura. Hadnt been messed up by Vince yet.
As a kid, I surmised that the Sheik was kept in a mental institution and released only to wrestle. Pretty funny. The only other guys who disturbed me more at the time were Abdullah the Butcher and Ox Baker. It was a unique time for sure and if you didn't live through it, I don't think you could really understand the aura of the time.
mayormc Oh yeah. The Sheik invented hardcore wrestling.
yes sir brother, this is an era that i was proud of lived through - we were all believers, and The Sheik, Abdullah the Butcher and Ox Baker LEGITIMATELY scared the hell out of me as a kid ...
Absolutely Agree I was totally In Aw and terrified of The Shiek, Maniac Mark Lewin, Abdullah the butcher & Ox Baker... when ever these 4 were around it like a old creepy Monster Movie "The House of Frankenstein " with all the Kings of horror battle royal....There Kayefabe was impeccable! !!! Nobody new these men were fake "bad guys"
No Hardcore PRO WRESTLING came by Dick the Bruiser, the Crusher Pampero Firpo Wild Bull.Curry Bruiser Brody &Fritz VonErich.
I grew up mainly on wwf because that was the only wrestling shown in Scotland at the time and I never had cable tv after 92 and I ended up watching wrestling again when I came across a video at the time 97 to be exact. I never knew all these other wrestlers that wrestled in other promotions. I mainly watched Sabu his nephew until I got the internet I had and still do have all these matches to watch. I was to young to even know who the sheik was at the time. Im 37 now and I cant stand to watch current wrestling. I would rathr watch the sheik or harley race and terry funk now.
I threw The Sheik a pencil At Cobo and he poked the Butcher in the forehead. Great times. Fire everywere.
When I was a kid I was enraged that the referee never saw that big stick the Sheik was using on his opponent 😁
Lewin was KING ! More Lewin man, please !
No Abdullah was better
Edward George Farhat was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik. Farhat is credited as one of the originators of the hardcore wrestling style. I remember when young Mark Lewin tag-teamed with Don Curtis back in the 1960s.
The sheik & Mark Lewin wild matches. Both of them loved to bleed.
Lewin looks like he'd been popping some Dianabol.
Vince needs to put Mark Lewin in the HOF.. impressive for so many years..I remember his long Maniac/Purple Haze heel runs.. they were incredible also
Agree... Most underrated wrestler
my grandma hated the sheik -but wouldnt miss a minute lol i was about 10 years old the sheik ultimate bad guy!!
Both these wrestlers were ahead of their time - had the crowd in the palm of their hand.
The Sheik vs the great Freddie Blassie was awesome!
The great Bob Finnegan on the call!
God, Syria, Farhat 🇸🇾
Amazing how much entertainment squeezes into so little time and the mega heat…his matches seem to be 10 minutes or less
the ball of flame - always waited for that - The Weasel was The Sheik's best manager
Great footage!
Talk about being over with the fans look at the shock in their eyes as Mark Luan mangoes about the crowd Dazed and confused
Sheik was the promoter of Big Time Wrestling in Detroit from 1964- 1980. Cobo arena was the Mecca of wrestling.
The Sheikh owned Big Time Wrestling in Detroit. So when The Sheikh wrestled, technically his opponents were his employees. So here, Mark Lewin the employee wrestled his employer The Sheikh. That's why Sheikh became US champion for a long time as he wished.
" Air- conditioned Cobo Arena!"
The brave and noble Sheik owned the whole promotion and territory.
Title changes hands on a count out?
THIS WAS A GREAT MATCH AND I REALLY ENJOYED IT. THANKS FOR POSTING IT UP.
A classic selling it in the crowd two legends
The Sheik won the US title and like that 😦WOW.. not even a cover 😵
That ref must be blind not to see the object the Shiek is using as a weapon.
Not necessarily at the time of when Ed wrestled there wasn't very many rules the boot check came later this was the real blood era .
Belt changes on a count out. Wow.
Mannn.. these og’s were no joke
The Sheik, probably the most savage, meanest wrestler in wrestling history!
The Sheik was among the most cunningly evil of the 1950s-1960s heels. Those of us who followed the careers of heels then or later loved his gimmick of punishing jobbers, often larger than he, with foreign objects that looked like thick pencils or nails. He'd bloody his jobbers, which some TV stations did not permit, and so he did not work in some markets - or seldom. The Sheik could jab and jab and jab a big muscular guy and bring him to his knees (or toss him from the ring), and the audience would watch the agony, and as soon as the jobber attempted to climb back into the ring or to stand up, The Sheik would jab and humiliate him even more relentlessly. Here, an enraged Mark Lewin finally grabs the jab-object and retaliates to the audience's ecstatic joy. But The Sheik's interfering manager (Eddie the Brain) gets in some cheap shots to help restore The Sheik's dominance. Usually The Shiek cheated to triumph by throwing some sort of one-flash firecracker.
Talk about heat
Good stuff
When the Sheik got to a certain age he didn't even hide the spike...lol
I'm mean a blind man can see it
It was a rubber pencil...
I saw the Sheik and Lawler in Memphis in the 70's.Double count out or DQ.They fought all over the coliseum
hahahaha..camera man did a great shot of farhat gigging himself...
Moe from the Three Stooges is the most extreme. There's nothing he wouldn't use
What makes a wrestling match between a jobber and a heel ideal?
I’ve read hundreds of notes posted by fans beneath UA-cam 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.
If I had a wrestling promotion I would hire you as a booker.
Wow you got too much time on your hands... SMH
You don't like the jobbers much, do you??? Lol 😝
Stopped reading after your dumb manager comments. Jim cornette n Bobby heenan were the greatest managers n weren't burly wrestlers themselves. So.
A CLASSIC MATCH UP/
I remember watching this on tape when I was 5 or 6. I'm 37 now, lol
Mike, Jack Brisco did fight the sheik in Toronto on 8/9/74. Only a 4 and a half minute match DDQ. Courtesy of Gary Will's Toronto match history.
Looking at this match for the first time in a while, I like The (original) Sheik's style as much as ever. He didn't waste time running the rope and climbing them and doing back-flips. He had good old-fashioned balls, and he used them as he methodically punished adversaries and reduced them to rubble at his pointed wrestling boots. When he finished working them over with his "foreign objects," they knew they'd had their humility fostered by a master pound-down practitioner. To Mark Lewin's credit, he takes it like the man he is and gives it back. And I agree with a comment by Gary Renard that the ref had to be the biggest boob in the history of pro wrestling referees.
Postscript: I love the way The Sheik (the Labanese-born American Ed Farhat) Makes his opponents wait for the ass-kicking they're in for. He knew how to intimidate by delay and by unpredictability. Here he gives Lewin (himself soon to be a domineering heel a good working over with a foreign object . Take ii and like it, Mark. Big Eddie knows how to manhandle his prey.
シークの炎の直撃を受けるマネージャーひ
Having grown up with Big Time Wrestling I was always lucky to get the weak signal on what I think was TV 50. Black, white and ill focused. It didn't matter. The Shiek brought real fear across the airwaves and I don't know how they kept Cobo intact. And anyone who tells you they were a fan and did not think it was real was older and wiser perhaps, but not wrestling fans. He produced real fear. The Detroit area was a hard pounding factory day in day out bust your ass kind of place. The Shiek was loved even as he was hated. This entire match with Mark Lewin is an all time classic of drama and violence. It is so much better the the subsequent Abdulla the Butcher stab fests that followed it. This is not the best example on you tube. Find a better version and watch the whole match. I hate the ultra violent thing he influenced. It was a period where the drama it created was believable. The Bobo Brazil matches were also exceptional. And to think he owned the terriotory! You can even stay at his mansion outside of Detroit!
Love,,it,,it,great
The Mad Man from Syria would've made the Iron Sheik look like tin foil had they wrestled. The Sheik and Abdullah The Butcher were straight up psychotic. Lol!
They were psychotic for sure but the iron sheik was an Olympic wrestling champion he could of held his own against anyone
two alpha men: well matched...Lewin's gut always his weak spot and Shiek buries his hard right deep into his bread basket at 10:50...but returns the favor at 11:22...
Lewin's fist do more damage and better techincal wrestler, but Shiek dirty tactics
win the fight here
as a kid .the sheik scared me ! i liked mark lewin
I was a fan of Maniac Mark Lewin as a kid.. In fact I use to lie and tell other kids that he was my uncle so much that they started believing me
Everyone's burn by the fire!!!!!
Lewin is a monster
Title change on a count out?
A BIG R.I.P TO THE SHEIK!
A loser-leaves-town situation...
MY REGARDS
All right fire no one since
Awesome!!
Gee I wonder if the Sheik has dropped the object.....8:35
I acuatlly like Edward George Farhat aka the sheik he created the gory style of wrestling and now you got to boot check but loved watching his matches
Shiek burning everyone out..
Okay! The Sheik gave 0 about Eddie Creatchman getting bbqd. Lol!
The Sheik & Mark Lewin are sexy gentlemen.
I love them.
1974...
That is the tiniest ring I've seen..haha. wow!
I think this is Sabu's uncle, (ECW). I remember he regularly hid a pencil in his trunks to attack his opponent.
It is. He trained and also trained Rob Van Dam.
merman93 how long you may know this but he also uses a spike and also Bites his opponents face.
Word was that The Sheik also had a straight razor hidden in his boot as well. That was for the fans! He had been attacked by several fans over the years.
Back when wrestling was believable now WWE is a circus
he won the title via count out? IDK what was worse the "wrestling" or the "refreeing" in this match lol
Interesting fight, but was that the worst referee in the history of wrestling?
He´s up there. I mean, these refs always act blind (part of the show) but the Shiek hardly makes any effort to hide the foreign object either, so that kinda kills everything. Still, I enjoy these matches.
I always wondered why he never got DQ’ed when the ref clearly saw the foreign object.
Won title on count out?
Hard to believe Lewin was ever a face
Lewin was absolutely awesome…
Look how small the ring is
When did the Sheik first wrestle Bruno Sammartino? Was it 1965?
Gotta love a generous blade
this ref
I'm sure these 2 were a threat to Jack Brisco's NWA title.
***** While original Detroit promoter Harry Strong was one of the founding members of the NWA, by the time he turned the promotion over to Ed "The Sheik" Farhat, there had been a split over the U.S. title (the top belt in Detroit) with the NWA in Chicago recognizing Buddy Rogers as US champ and the AWA recognizing Dick the Bruiser as holding the same championship. Detroit Big Time Wrestling became an AWA territory after that point.
Anyway, I can't for the life of me imagine Jack Brisco trying to defend the belt in Detroit with Farhat's hardcore booking and the riotously unruly Detroit fans. I believe Lewin went to other territories, though, where he would have been a strong challenger and would have given Brisco a great match.
I thought that Jim Barnett owned Detroit before the Sheik got it.
Alex Batey Barnett was helping Bruiser to run opposition to Sheik in Detroit and Northern Ohio in 71/72 before the NWA stepped in in Sheik's favour. The upshot was that Barnett couldn't promote in the States for a while, so he bought a piece of the Australia territory and booked there for several years. It was likely arranged as a face-saving measure "for the business", as had he stayed he might well have been indicted for sex crimes and bribing public officials.
Did Bobby "The Brain" copy his name from Sheik's manager? Seems like a lot was copied from this era.
It's likely. Sheik and Dick the Bruiser basically split that Detroit/Ohio/Indiana territory, and a lot of gimmicks from Sheik's Detroit promotion were mirrored in Bruiser's Indiana based promotion. Heenan spent a lot of his active ring career in Bruiser's neck of the woods.
Also Jack successful defended the NWA belt against Mark Lewin 3 times in New Zealand and Australia courtesy of Mid Atlantic gateway. In Jacks book he stated he truly hated wrestling gimmic wrestlers lol!
I read somewhere that the Sheik did not fool with Thesz like that. Either respect or fear or both.
Like how the manager is smoking in the ring before the match.
Eddy creatchman
Eddie was smoking when he jumped in the ring and Lewin put the sleeper on him.
Such a G lol
at 8:03?manic mark looks ready2kill the sheik...that man is huge and appears vry angry
eddy got slde of that head scorched 😂😂
Matk Lewin often came to Austrslia
As if he were getting a message on HIGH. HA! Perfect!
You can see where Sabu got a lot of his traits.
Let me get this straight. You can just pull an object out of your trunks and repeatedly jab a guy in the head with it?
Yoou can if you're the Sheik. Of course the people got tired of it and NWA Detroit soon died. Also Sheik booked Toronto once.
Referee keep away
God. Fhader. Hart. Core. Sheik. And. Adublla the bucher. The. Legendary. Armandito. Salgado. Ex. WWC. Fron. Puerto Rico. US. Territory
Lol this ain't NOTHIN (and I'm speaking as if this all was real!) I saw these two in Fort Worth in the late 70's and they never stayed in the ring! The Sheik tried to run but Lewin was throwing so many chairs @ him that it was almost hitting the fans! Great entertainment back then even though it was a put on ;)
Kayfabe😁👊
How could The Sheik win the title on a countout? And don't they have disqualifications for outside interference?
Anyone know what year this took place in?
Wow this is the first time seeing the Sheik get his ass kicked pretty much throughout the whole match
Happened at least a few times with Bobo Brazil, too.
Someone just posted a Tio tok with him
whats the date for this match?
You know thinking about it it'd been great if he was in his prime and the undertakers dead man persona was fighting with the sheik. Sheik would just look at the undertaker while taker tries to play with him and the sheik just ends up throwing a fireball in his face. Ah that'd be amazing..
Referee you are wrong don't stop Lewis using weapons on Sheik
LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE JUMPING OUT OF THERE SEATS AND RUNNING WHEN MARK LEWIN WENT INTO THE CROWD BLEEDING FROM THE SHIEK. TELL ME HOW GOOD THIS WAS TO SEE THE CROWD BELIEVE IN PRO WRESTLING. VINCE MCMAHON JR. RUINED EVERYONE'S BELIEF IN THIS GREAT SPORT. MCMAHON DESERVES EVERYTHING BAD THAT COMES INTO HIS LIFE.
A very scary man lmao.. Fake or not.. I'm convinced no bullshit..
Yeah dude 😎 good match 👍. WHAT IS UP? MAN ON MAN ACTION 🔥.R U MAN ENOUGH?
これ観るとジョーさんて凄く上手かったんだな〜って今更ながらにおもいます。
貴重な日本語コメントだな😅
If that wasn’t a crooked ref I don’t know what is.
Let's see: ref counts choking on the ropes, stops manager from interfering, counts out on the floor but blatant use of a foreign object gets no attention for most of the match. Ha ha. Weird rules when the Sheik is involved I guess.
They had 2 rings there? Boxing ring maybe?
Probably for a 2 Ring Battle Royal.
Watch the sheik sheik lewin haaaa. Haasass