The Sheik of Araby vs. Bill Melby (04/26/1957)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The Sheik of Araby (Edward George Farhat) faces Bill Melby in a 1 fall match with a 30 minute time limit. Friday, April 26th, 1957 at the Chicago International Amphitheatre.
Original: 16mm., B&W, Optical Sound. F.2008-04-0042.
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awesome headscissors 🔥😁👍👌
Bill Melba was a bodybuilder as well. Loved watching him use the Sheik
He was same person of The Sheik ？
Somewhere along the way Ed Farhat decided that these long matches with holds weren't for him and decided to start acting like a wild man using foreign objects and throwing fire at his opponents.
The same could be said of Crusher, Bruiser, many others once they aged
Melby once tagged with Billy Darnell, both were awesome wrestlers..
I absolutely love this announcer, Russ Davis' laissez-faire style. His delivery makes you think that he would sound the same if a bull was in there chasing the wrestlers around w/a stick of dynamite between his teeth. I really enjoy it. It's sort of Lance Russell after he innhaled his herbal medicine.
Damn the Sheik was a good looking guy
Great wrestling.
cool seeing sheik give and take slams. cut out a lot of the matwork and you've got a good modern TV match here. sprinkle in a couple of modern techniques and you might even have a good modern ppv match here as well.
Russ Davis was sick that day.
20:27 nice
Love Bill Melby. Another good looking wrestling stud in the ring. Love watching him on the receiving end of some good punishment.
nice vid
Yeah dude 😎 good match 👍 What is up? Man on man action 🔥 R U man enough?
Ed Farhat was a U.S. Army tank commander during WWll
Bill Melby e muito mais forte e muito lindo 💪💪💪🐻🐻🐻❤️❤️❤️❤️🇧🇷
Two absolute legends in the ring. Interesting that Abdullah Farouk was not at ringside with his protoge.
5:00 right where he puts his hashish?!😂
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Jim Cornette wishes this was the only type of wrestling that existed today
No he just wants wrestling to he seen as an athletic contest, and less of the inexplicable silly shit they put out today
He, like myself, can live without senseless gymnastics and endless obvious cooperation that leads to dives and flips that mean nothing.
Tell me you don’t listen to a word Jim Cornette says without telling me you don’t listen to a word Jim Cornette says.
Good quality vintage bout with handsome ex body builder Bill Melby and Arab hard man The Sheik. The Sheik was the obvious time waster and dirty tricks wrestler but who could have beaten Bill with his trademark hammerlock if he continued to keep Bill prostrate on the canvas, weakening Bill's big bicep and shoulder. Bill's muscular advantage helped dominate the Arab quite a lot but he didnt break him and a draw ensued!
I hate draws. Really really hate them. No satisfaction in a draw.
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Sheik gettin long face full of Melby sack at 16:53...
Melby sure was dominating Sheik with that series of head scissors 😎
Fkn sheikh was from Brooklyn lol
Brooklyn, Michigan? He was actually born in Lansing.
Detroit area
@@jasonbuzzalini5174 And of Lebanese descent, but there are no sheiks in Lebanon, just as there are no sheiks in Iran, the Iron Sheik's homeland, or in Iraq, where "Sheik" Adnan al-Kaissie was billed from.
Long series of headscissors by Melby beginning at 16:48 and going for almost 4 minutes. Never see that today.
JockPinner123 That's because this is PRO WRESTLING and not SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT. ;-)
You are right, those were the days, miss those days, true wrestling.
If you ask me I think the sheik liked being in his headscissors, I know I would have.
Would love to see a very long headscissors held today by a wrestler. I love me some headscissors wrestling
Does it get you going?
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