Karl Gotch verstorben

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Das Wort “Legende“ wird zu haeufig in diesem Business verwendet, aber am 28 July verstarb eine wirkliche Legende des Professional Wrestling.

Karl Gotch hat nicht nur einen enormen Einfluss auf das Puroresu gehabt, sondern auch auf das MMA. Er war der Trainer von Leuten wie Akira Maeda, Hiro Matsuda, Nobuhiko Takada, Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Satoru Sayama, Masanobu Fuchi, Masakatsu Funaki und Minoru Suzuki,um nur mal einige wenige zunennen. Im Ring war Gotch ein Hooker, und das was man einen Wrestler`s Wrestler nennt.
RIP Karl Gotch


Hier mal zwei Videos von Karl Gotch, im ersten Video ist er 71 Jahre alt, und im zweiten noch aelter. SEHR BEEINDRUCKEND!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNWHM6aAius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreCOrf9ExM


Und folgender Brief hat Karl Gotch am 18 July 2005 an Jake Shannon geschrieben

Dear Jake,

Thanks for sending me that copy of the fat man Matt Furey’s website. As you know I don’t have a computer and I don’t know how to use it, but as I can see he employs it for a con game to steal from some poor guys that love the sport. He hung around me for about 5 months not over two years as he states.

He writes, “What’s Old is New – What’s New is Old” well he uses this to put his hand in the poor guys pocket and grab the money. I found him out when he talked me into making a tape I had about conditioning commercial, I had made the tape as proof, because after my double hip replacement I could not do many of those things anymore and a picture is worth a thousand words.

I told him to never use my name again with anything he ever did. The man is a disgrace to wrestling and has no honor at all, he can walk under a snakes belly wearing a top hat.

To give you an idea what real pro-wrestling is lets take boxing as an example, even as an Olympic Champ when you turn pro you have to start all over again because it’s completely different. Here in the U.S.A they had the best in the world, men like Strangler Lewis, Toots Mondt, John Pesek, etc. would take the life out of anyone that challenged them. Wrestling is opposite of what people think it is, it is not strength but knowledge, balance, and timing, leverage and where to place the fulcrum, that’s what it takes to make it to the top in the noble art of wrestling.

Also, the most difficult sport is wrestling because contrary to other combat sports you have to learn to attack and defend from 3 different positions; standing-up, on all fours and underneath. It takes know how to do that, and your best hold is condition, even the best automobile won’t run without gas, oil, and water. People now go for excitement and to something that is easy to understand, that’s why football, base-ball and basketball are drawing the big crowds, plus they are team sport, they change their players in and out.

Wrestling in the amateurs should never be less than 12 minutes a match, then you can see the best man. I wrote you all this to show you that how can a fat slob like Furey, that doesn’t know his elbow from his rear end, tell and show these poor boys that he charges an arm and a leg and a finger thrown in? Wrestling is a workman’s sport, you need no expensive equipment and can practice it anywhere, and here is this greedy, fat no good misfit charging them all this money for nothing. I never took one cent from a boy to show him how to wrestle, all I asked for is guts. I can make you strong, fast, agile and train you for endurance and reflex, but guts you get when you are born.

I hope that we can find a way to stop this misfit from fleecing those poor guys, thanks again for letting me know.
Yours,
Karl