The Great Gama posing with his gada, 1910s or 20s (lemmy.world)

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Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt (22 May 1878 – 23 May 1960), commonly known by the title Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was a pehlwani wrestler and strongman in British India and later, Pakistan. In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of British India.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

also going down the wikipedia rabbit hole from this guy i found perhaps the greatest wrestling picture ever of stanislaus zbyszko.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

He shall now break this whelp.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Any relation to Larry?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

nope. larry is actually lawrence whistler (i was curious when i was in my rabbit hole); he just took the stage name zbyszko. :)

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If he modified his personia, I feel like Larry Whistler has so much more room to grow as a character. Imagine a character so deranged, and so methodical that he'll poke your eye out, and then whistle as he walks away so the ref can check on you. Just whimsically whistling away as he breaks bones, and shatters dreams.

Instead, we got the guy who went on WCW commentary to call them the "New World OooooOOOOder", as if he was being witty.

Cheers to rabbit holes!

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

to be fair he was at the end of his career at that point. watch some of his stuff in the early 90s wcw when he was in the dangerous alliance of even before in the territories in the 70s and 80s

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

True. But you have to remember in the mid90s I had no way of seeing his older work. I was 12, and nowhere near a hardcore fan enough to know what tape trading was.

Even now, I guess there might be stuff on the network, or youtube, but you'd have to know where to look.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

no i hear that; i was born in 80 so although i grew up with jcp/wcw i only really remember watching it from about 87 on. i'd say my earliest memory was zbyszko in very early 90s (90/91) which was at the tail end of his career but still very good.

this was the start of his feud with bruno, with commentary by bruno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6WTYZvyyEE

larry heel promo on bruno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKE1R4R_yA

bruno/larry contract signing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxRfboH_cY

larry/bruno cage match at shea stadium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoydwRtk8U8

more larry/bruno promos at msg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5dBpPriAIA

i'm always a sucker for arn and larry teaming together (also i'm a sucker for gary cappetta's ring announcing). really great match against robert gibson and tom zenk, despite being on worldwide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChkhgE6ntWw

larry leaving the dangerous alliance and turning face (i remember this vividly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0WWmU77hys

larry vs steven regal, 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1z38phnsY

bonus- larry/steven regal promos with vintage commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyevKb-rgTk (complete with annoying usa chants)

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