Big Time Wrestling (Channel 44 KBHK TV from 1978)
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Professional wrestling out of San Francisco around 1978.
I edited two old uploads from Joe W. There was sound from only one side and I fixed that. I synced the audio as best I could cleaned up the rough edges for a smoother video.
Great older footage of wrestling. Thanks, Joe W., for the uploads
Rest In Peace brother Roddy Piper
1 of my favorite wrestlers of all time.
The golden age of pro wrestling.
Finest Wrestler to ever Wear a Kilt! And the Only One MAN ENOUGH TO DO IT!! Hot Rod Was AWESOME!
Piper was one of the all time greats.
The announcer was Hank Renner, he was THE MAN when it came to Big Time Wrestling. I watched it on KBHK-44 for years growing up. Pat Patterson, Ray Stevens, Peter Maivia, Rocky Johnson, I could go on all day.
I like him, yes I do. He has his own syle, his own disarming way about him. Perfect
I really miss Big Time Wrestling. I'm from the Pacific Northwest. For us in Washington State, it was on Channel 13. Thankfully, that was one of our TV's best channels, in terms of reception. Those were the days. Rocky Johnson and Roddy Piper were my favorite wrestlers, at the time. I was a huge fan of the Destroyer, too. No one knew what he looked like under his mask. Those were the days. Being a kid in the seventies was awesome. Watching this sure brings back memories. 🙂
Man, Piper on the mic. Just superb.
Thank you so much for this post. I grew up in the Bay Area watching KBHK and territory wrestling - this is pure gold.
"We don't have his picture here, we forget it" I love studio wrestling.
It was actually much better than the big arena Wrestling.
Piper, best talker ever. R.I.P.
My favorite wrestler as a kid, still is.
A young Roddy Piper, the man, the legend the myth
Buddy Rose was a better wrestler than Piper. Piper was a better talker, entertainer.
Piper is a dam LEGEND
Rest in peace Piper
Love watching Harley Race, his moves were so clean and crisp. He is the GOAT
My dad was good friends with Big Time’s owner Roy Shire’s son when I was a kid in the 90’s. I spent many nights at the Toe Hold Ranch in Sebastopol looking through old Wrestling memorabilia. I didn’t realIy know how important some of the stuff I was looking at actually was at the time. I remember looking at this wrestling ring, I think the exact one they’re using in this video and them telling me Andre the Giant had wrestled on it and just being so stoked about it. It was a very memorable time in my childhood
I remember watching this with my dad every Sunday afternoon back in the 70’s watching my dad was funner than watching the show because he would really get into it he’d jump to the edge of his chair swaying back and forth when the wrestlers would really start going at it. What wonderful memories and btw he did the same thing when watching boxing I really miss those times
Thanks for putting this here. I grew up watching Big Time Wrestling and watched it quite religiously!
I rember watching big time wrestling on kbhik 44 during 1971 way before wwf wrestling i watched big time for the longest time i also watched scary monster show the drive in movie monster mash and the ghoul show and creature freatures on channie 2. I did enjoy all theres old school shows.
This is so awesome I actually watch this on a little black and white TV channel 44 with a rabbit ears when I was in the 8th grade
Piper died at 61yrs old of a heart attack in his sleep on July 31,2015.He was in this match around 24yrs old in San Francisco in 1978.He will be missed.
Rest In Peace Harley Race 1 Of My Favorite Heels In Wrestling
Brother U Might Be Gone - Not Forgotten
"I'll wrestle anyone on God's green earth today." Harley Race pure promo gold.
Harley race was so big in Kanas City
Apparently Buddy Rose taped lots of the shows on his personal VCR at home, so I've heard.
Fun stuff. Wish there were commercials. I used to go to the Cow Palace with my dad, brother, and neighbors in early 1970s to watch this.
Roddy Piper at 232lbs? He looks like 180lbs at the most
Comedian Freddy Lewis is in the crowd. 2nd row-opposite camera-white shirt.
Thanks for posting this. '70s Frisco wrestling was total fire!
Piper in the late 70s is simply hilarious, especially with his heavy Canadian accent. He simply mastered the art of making a exquisite promo. No wrestler could even come close to what he was doing.
He came to the Mid Atlantic NWA area of the Carolinas in the very early 80s and he was terrific, one of Wrestling's best entertainers ever.
never saw piper this early 1st saw him in geogia love gordon soley and that crew!! this is a treat too!!
Here's the card for this weekend's big show.
Cue the photo album.
Thanks for uploading this! I was born in '90, so I've not seen very many of Hot Rod's early matches. This was great and he was so CUTE!
San Francisco, late 70s, and Pro Wrestling...a stimulating, exciting, combination...when men were allowed to BE MEN...in the squared circle 💪😏
I grew up watching wrestling on KBHK. Furthermore, I was playing the bagpipes then, too. I still do. PLUS, the kilt tartan I wore in those days was the same as what Piper is wearing here. Clan McCleod (pronounced McCloud) of Lewis. What is affectionately known as "Loud McCleod'' because of the bright yellow. Others call it the 'bumblebee tartan'' because if the yellow with black stripes.
Incidentally, he played those pipes quite well.
Sounded dubbed? Maybe video and sound mis match?
I remember watching Big Time Wrestling in the 1970's that was when I first started watching it. Good Times and not breaking Kayfabe that's what I like about Wrestling.
I remember KBHK TV 44 from the 80s but this was before my time.
Born & raised in San Francisco (Haight/Ashbury District) Every Saturday morning on KBHK TV 44 & KTVU 2 Oakland on Friday nights. Loved the live events @ The Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. The memories.!! Thank you.
...the memories...and the involuntary boners 😳🤫☺️😉🚬 lol...matches were physically stimulating, and exciting to watch for this rambunctious 10yr old... I'd get pissed if I had to miss it for any reason, 😂😆....it was pure gold 🥇
Piper was only 24 here.
The term 10 Pounds of Gold was being used in 1978. Interesting!
I think they always called that particular belt 10 lbs of Gold.
There's nothing new under the sun 🌞.
"Piper is in his prime here."
My understanding is that the station that aired this recorded over the wrestling shows and that Big Time wrestling videos are VERY hard to come by
Hank Renner and Boyd Pierce were secretly competing with WKRP in Cincinnati's now late great Frank Bonner as "Herb Tarlek" for the coveted "Suit Doubling as Upholstery Trophy of The Late 20th Century"!😂🤣😂B.W.
Love these small independent wrestling shows screw WWE!!! Florida Wrestling Georgia wrestling Big Time wrestling wrestling from Detroit those were the good old days of wrestling wrestling from Memphis
roddy piper created and kept wrestling alive in the 70's and 80's
You're an idiot, that is a very stupid comment. He was a midcarder.
Really good Video Sir. I'm Santa Rosa born and bred. I Grew up with Pro Wrestling. I've seen many matches at the Grace Pavilion at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. They then moved the matches to the Veterans Memorial Building across the street. Mr. Shire had a Ranch in Sebastopol, called the Toe Hold Ranch. Several of the big name Wrestlers under his promotion would hang out there. Including Andre the Giant who did a brief tour with Mr. Shire in 1976 or1977. Mr. Shire brought Andre to Analy High School for a visit. They ended up at a local Ice Cream shop. This brings back many fond memories. My Dad who's 91 now remembers going to the matches in the very beginning of Mr. Shires promotion.
Piper and Mayne were tag partners in LA at the same time they were feuding in SF.
Back in the Day... also recall Roddy on NWA for Crockett Promotions
Long live the memories of Rowdy Roddy Piper & Comedian Freddy Lewis. xoxo The Clarences
That jobber Race was wrestling didn’t sell the pile driver
Roddy Piper was the greatest Villain of the ring that I ever got to see personally in action !
PLAYBOY BUDDY ROSE is my fave US CHAMPION. He's an EXCELLENT HEEL. BUDDY ROSE and ED WISKOWSKI are my fave TAG TEAM.
Race gave that Cow Palace interview without even knowing who is opponent was. A generic interview.
"Uh, Mr. Piper, Moondog Mayne ate Your check!" Gosh I wish that I could've seen this Piper driven lunacy in person!😂🤣😂😋💸🌚🐶B.W.
I loved how different territories would air VTR's from each other without any prejudice. Imagine the WWE airing a video promo from AEW or MLW or vice versa nowadays... Don't hold your breath for it. SMH.
That's what Vince should have done years ago when he bought out the other territories. He should have done it in secret and kept the Alliance together, but he was too busy bragging about putting everyone out of business and couldn't see that he was slowly killing the sport, I haven't watched Wrestling in over 10 years now, it's just terrible.
Excellent
I’ll tell you one thing there was not a wrestler that was doing promos like Roddy was back then piper had his game down at that point for promos I mean that was top notch
Very few Wrestlers were ever as good as Piper on the mic 🎤.
WOW! Boy does Piper look young here
He was 24yr old
that match with playboy rose was sick
Given their complicated histories intriguing to have Roddy Piper, Buddy Rose, and Jimmy Snuka mentioned together in one small paragraph. The California NWA AWA Americas Talent Roster was supernaturally stocked in 1974 and years to come!😂B.W.
They announced fat guy as 225 and Piper 232?
In fairness, Piper's like a foot taller.
Dean “large bubbles” Ho and his brother and tag team partner,
Don “tiny bubbles” Ho.
They were big in Hawaii.
They also worked as a singing duo when they couldn’t get any matches.
Classic Roddy Piper promo
Is the crowd noise dubbed in? It seems real loud for a studio audience of that size. Also, tough to tell because of the age and quality of video, but it seems to drown out the announcers.
Yes! It was dubbed in. You can hear *WATCH OUT!* Being yelled a lot
The show was taped before a live audience in Sacramento, the secondary city in Shires Pacific Coast Athletic Corp. It was taped on a Wednesday or Thursday morning. That may have affected the turnout and the cheap ass overdub. I've never heard crowd overdubs that sounded real.
WCW's 6:05 a.m. show "Championship Wrestling" pretended to be a live show. When Dusty and Zbysko were the co-presenters they would act as though they were interacting with the fans. Standing in front of a green screen waving and chatting up non-existent fans. Stupid and hilarious.
Pak Song and Gordon Solie had a very important Angle to work in Florida in 1974. The one that turned Dusty Rhodes Face for an astonishing 24 Years!😂B.W.
Good ol' Hank Renner and his loud suits.
Is there a Scotland in Canada lol Piper at his best !
Nova Scotia. New Scotland.😂🇨🇦🏴B.W.
Roddy Piper is here
Piper was as green as a clover here
And still much better than anyone in Wrestling for the last 15 years.
@@chrisoakley5830 indeed, especially on the mic. Actual wrestling skills are secondary to the ability to put fannies in seats and make em’ pop
Grew up in the Bay.
A buddy of mine trained at BTW in the mid 90s I think under Sam Fatu.
He washed out,though.
I left Fremont in 2021 and I think BTW was still going on.
Nobody cares
@@danorthsidemang3834 I do
Dunno who that Lyle Waggoner handsome south san fran wrestler was in Roddys second match is but the camera really liked him. He had that certain something that kept me engaged, had me wondering if Piper could really beat him.
Guy Lambert! Genuine athlete from So City High School. When i was a kid, we attended every show at the Cow Palace. He worked as The Masked Avenger out in the NWA territories. Believe it or not, he was a mortician at Chapel of the Highlands in San Bruno! When we buried my grandmother (a huge wrestling fan) in 1976, I was riding up front in the limo, and into the driver's seat sits this huge man. My cousin was poking me in the ribs and whispering "Hey, that is Guy Lambert!" I asked the driver if he was, and he said, trying to keep kayfabe, "Yes, my name is John." What a great guy. I went back there and did a school report on wrestling, and there is a pic in the San Bruno Herald of him giving me a body slam. (He didn't land it, though, i was only 12.) Little did we both know that I would go on to a 20 year career in Big Time Wrestling under Kirk White (RIP)...
@@ThomasMulhall Holy Smokes! Now THIS is INTERESTING. Thanks for the info, my goodness. Must have been great to be able to hit those events, especially when Piper and Moondog were around. Baaarely remember reading an article or 2 about Moondog in PWI back in the day but never saw him on tv. Once I saw 1 video of him on you tube i immidiately went hunting for everything there was to see. Really messed up to see his death announcement on 1st video, the man was straight up $$$. I know I would have paid up to see him
I was twelve in that year.
Kind of funny, the only thing I remember from Big Time Wrestling was Moon Dog Rex (or Mane) eating dog food, and that's barely a memory. Not sure how we were able to watch this with only one TV in the house.
Almost certainly Moondog Mayne.
An unidentified Lady in the crowd channels her inner Gunilla Knutson from the legendary Noxzema commercials if you listen closely enough!😂B.W.
Detroit also had Big Time wrestling
Roddy was "THE" Bomb!
Nothing makes a show look cheaper than a referee wearing casual clothes.
I vaguely remember a wrestler named Mephisto from back in the mid-70's, on Shire's Big Time Wrestling. I seem to recall someone with a "loaded boot" put the boot to Mephisto's head, and ended his career. Can any of the old fans confirm that story? I was a very young kid in that period (about 7 years old).
"The Great Memphisto" was a wrestler named Frankie Caine. He wrestled in the SF Bay Area territory in the early 70's and probably beyond that under different identities. Promoter Roy Shire used to occasionally bring in "guests" from other territories for one big match. Among his favorites was "The Sheik" based out of Detroit. Since he couldn't get the original "Sheik", he created his own. Caine would come to the ring with his wife dressed in a harem costume as his "slave girl", throw down a "prayer rug" and delay the match while he did his "prayers". His "gimmick" was a loaded boot. At the climax of the match he would tap the boot which positioned some sort of foreign object into the toe. One kick would knock his opponent cold. The "slave girl" bit was dropped after a short time. Caine had a bitter feud with Pat Patterson after he knocked Pat out with the boot. Couple of weeks later, Patterson got his revenge, attacking Memphisto and removing the boot on TV for all to see. And in their house show, Patterson wore the boot and knocked Caine out. But I don't think it ended his career. He was still living well past 2000.
Glad to hear I'm not the only person who remembers Mephisto. I didn't realize it was 1970, and his real name was Caine. I was five in 1970, so I'm not surprised I don't recall many details, or that the internet doesn't have a lot of detail about him (that I found). Maybe Mephisto died on Shire's promotion. He certainly wasn't there in the late 70's when Pat Patterson and Rocky Johnson were at the top. Thanks for sharing! @@nealbfinn
A wrestling with bagpipes who would know. Great idea for Drew McEntire to do in the WWE. First time seeing this guy. Did he ever wrestle out side of LA or SF??
Roddy Piper did wrestle for WWF/WWE and WCW also Ronda Rousey is keeping his name alive
Is this sarcasm?
Is Hank still alive?
Harley Race is the man
R. I. P. Roddy
Tony Millan should've stayed in the pizza business. He was not cut out to be a wrestler!
19:30: A Su-PLAY?? 🤣🤣😂😂
A young and somewhat in shape
Playboy Buddy Rose.
Must have been before he caught that rare disease that caused him to eat every and all food in sight.
- Laying the 'Kayfabe' aside for a moment, Piper's comment is all too true, people use the term "Crazy" to intimidate people. They always have. I've heard it in this part of the country all my life, and they have wore it in to the ground,to the point that it's ridiculous.
Is he gonna pull out his wallet and show us pictures of his grand kids
to be upn now my network
The cow placeal the house my dad half cenure batman bluidded 1919 2021,
The ring looks low to the ground
Yes, it was the lowest ring that I ever saw. Incredibly Strange Wrestling bought one of them and used it until they folded in the mid 2000s.
232 lbs lol😂
Yes, this is a nit pick.
Bugs me so much when someone, more so professionals that are presenters, like Renner, says that a plane going South, is going "up." "Does a lot of wrestling up in Los Angeles." I don't think that Shires was running T.V. south of L.A. Especially after he got spanked attempting a couple of shows at the Sports Arena.
Never was a fan of Hank Renner. He was so blase' dry. Before the Sacramento based show was Roy Shires the show bicycled throughout the territory, the S.F. Bay Area had "National All Star Wrestling" performed at KTVU in Oakland. Walt Harris was 10x the announcer that Renner was. Like the very best like Solie, Dick Lane, Jim Ross and Lance Russell, Harris, producer of the Giants radio and T.V. broadcasts, brought a serious tone. He interviewed the talent as athletes not actors. Renner lowered the quality of the show, already hurt by the crap production values.
Louden Kliehr, great post. When BTW closed down in 1981 do you think Hank Renner had something to do with the closure along with the low ratings at that time? Also do you think Shires should have picked "Allan Bolte" over Renner for the Channel 40/44/36 TV shows? I say this because Bolte was doing the Cow Palace live shows and he was very good in my opinion. That Walt Harris was a "high-end" announcer I have to admit. Walt just loved the Roller Derby business. Much more than working for Shires and the Pro Wrestling industry.
Playboy bumping ALL over the place!
Is this wrestling from Detroit.
Buddy Rose was a better wrestler than Piper. Piper was a better talker and entertainer.
ALT
12:38 He tries to INDIMIDATE people!
9:56 lol he didn’t come to San Francisco to swish around lmAo San Francisco was known as like the gay Heaven of America back in like the 70s and 80s
Don't be fooled by Buddy Rose's body, he can wrestle
Piper was a midcarder who sucked in the ring.
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Is Hank still alive?