If you’re going to conduct a ceremony of such monumental scale and importance, the natural venue should always be the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton...
@fasthracing
3 жыл бұрын
Of course.
@martinwood744
3 жыл бұрын
The spiritual hub of the universe!
@wesbrit630
2 жыл бұрын
Hoping to make a pilgramidge one day. Though i am well aware to book in advance such is the demand.
@oldgold5848
11 ай бұрын
Too right. Some great nights at the civic
@ronnierahman8543
5 жыл бұрын
Any generation and any pro wrestling organisation- this is the best unmasking of a pro wrestler of all time
@davesmith-rs1yo
4 жыл бұрын
Looks like they raided the Dr who costume dept at the BBC
@chainsawteddybear
5 жыл бұрын
The way I see it, it’s a such a badass thing to do. Be it that the mask is a sacred thing, taking it off before an audience yourself instead of losing it in a bet match is so amazing. Especially in this ceremony -like style, it reminds me of seppuku. This guy knew how live up to the gimmick. What a fucking master.
@tonypastor705
Жыл бұрын
chainsaw teddy bear- He was unmasked- by Haystacks and Big Daddy.
@keithdeley7236
Жыл бұрын
Are you American?
@tonypastor705
Жыл бұрын
@@keithdeley7236 Me???
@pme96
11 жыл бұрын
From the mysterious, nay mystical Civic Hall in Wolverhampton!
@JohnSmith-4U
9 күн бұрын
what?
@ThirdDegreeWitchExplores
9 жыл бұрын
Blimey he looks scarier without the mask !
@rrbh
3 жыл бұрын
He put Robbie Brookside under such a diabolical and evil spell that Robbie turned and fought his own tag partner, and fellow Liverpool Lad, Doc Dean. Doc was so so traumatised that he failed to order his customary melted cheese on beans at Keele motorway services on the way home. Brookside himself claims that his body and mind were under the control of Kendo - and that no power in the universe could stop him from attacking his own tag partner. Things had calmed down by 4 am as they made Pot Noodles together in the comfort of their Kirkdale kitchen.
@GregasaurausRex
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Robbie Brookside working in the Memphis TN area with William Regal.
@Jagdtoq
9 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect him to look as fitting the part as that, impressed
@BonkersAboutAlice
2 жыл бұрын
Yep
@vordman
Жыл бұрын
He looked like a god come down to earth
@TheCatfeeesh
9 жыл бұрын
Secret retreat - flat above a chippy in Burnley!
@DrJReefer
8 жыл бұрын
He's got a fuck off great mansion. Seriously Kendo is richer than Jesus
@petercartwright4321
7 жыл бұрын
Don't be so sure mate. Kendo does have a Retreat that I have visited a few times. It's a beautiful place too
@martinwood744
3 жыл бұрын
@@DrJReefer And a better wrestler!
@DrJReefer
3 жыл бұрын
@@martinwood744 Jesus has the better cross body.
@baldandold
16 жыл бұрын
real name Peter Thornley, not very oriental though.....
@JohnCashin
11 жыл бұрын
I know exactly what you mean, often when someone with a mask, a wrestler, a stunt artists or whatever takes it off and you see their face they then just seem like any old Joe and you think 'okay...nothing out of the ordinary', when Kung Fu got beat by Mick McManus he took his mask off and it was like 'big deal' but not so with Kendo Nagasaki, when he first took off his mask in full, not only does he not look at all like any old, he actually seemed even more enigmatic without the mask :O
@Supermercado
15 жыл бұрын
Now there's a gimmick that deserves a comeback. Complete with slightly poncy British manager.
@DrJReefer
8 жыл бұрын
He looks like young Henry Rollins
@ecwfaithful
7 жыл бұрын
Dr J Reefer Come to think of it he does, Henry right after he joined Black Flag.
@jacksugden8190
6 жыл бұрын
Never heard of Henry
@1967Rev
3 жыл бұрын
he never died....
@Bigtimecharlie1980
3 жыл бұрын
@@jacksugden8190 the hoover I’ve got one of them
@SavoxYt
7 ай бұрын
The man who handed Andre the Giant his first loss. In Dudley, of all places.
@MisterBeauJanGels
Жыл бұрын
Now we all know what Henry Rollins did before Black Flag.
@retrojaxed2
13 жыл бұрын
i remember that,seeing those red eyes scared the crap out of me....
@DavidBeecraft
16 жыл бұрын
I love the shouting from the crowd "Just get on with it!"
@ylwapple45
14 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thinks Kendo's face sorta resembles a bald Henry Rollins with huge pupils????? * btw...the 2 guys doing faceplants was hilarious!
@viperxeon
13 жыл бұрын
Did they soak his mask in petrol or something? It went up like a bloody rocket!
@EdCourney
8 жыл бұрын
Such better showmanship back then.
@MasterJedi231
7 жыл бұрын
EdCourney q
@colinp2238
7 жыл бұрын
How could anyone been surprised? The mask had been taken from him before I believe on more than one occassion (obviously rigged). He was Peter Thornley who had been wrestling since the early 60's, Nagasaki didn't come into being until 70 or 71. He had a long career until late 80's or maybe 90's.
@rossmatheson4303
5 жыл бұрын
I have a memory of him having his mask taken off by another wrestler during a bout and the commentators all going mad about it recognising him. I swear I saw this happen but would have no idea of the timeline other than me seeing it in the 80s. It could well have been a repeat of World of Sport from the 70s I was watching as a kid.
@anubis6864
3 жыл бұрын
@@rossmatheson4303 He was unmasked by Big Daddy at Solihull in the 70's. I was there when it happened.
@roytheboy1963
Жыл бұрын
@@rossmatheson4303 Big daddy in a televised bout in 1975 removed the mask in which he was revealed
@rossmatheson4303
Жыл бұрын
@@roytheboy1963 Must've been a repeat I was watching in the 80s then. I wasn't born when the original unmasking happened.
@kwaal
11 жыл бұрын
Huh? I'm pretty sure it's him. There have been two wrestlers to use the name/gimmick, however - The other Kendo (who's real name was Kazuo Sakurada) wrestled in America & Japan and was legitimately Japanese. Also, instead of a mask, he wore face paint.
@shantelw26
12 жыл бұрын
all that and it turns out to be louis spence!!!
@kerrymandanny8135
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha jesus christ
@dirkbogarde44
13 жыл бұрын
Looks like a cross between Hennry Rollins and David Carradine's Kung Fu !
@BonkersAboutAlice
2 жыл бұрын
True
@phils1014
7 жыл бұрын
I didn't know you could get coloured contacts back then! I remember seeing this live, and thinking he really was a Japanese samurai!
@eliezervelezful
6 жыл бұрын
I think the same. Not sure what year this was but sclera lenses? This is very weird. I didn't knew sclera lenses had been around for that long. Maybe for movie FX's. But how this guy was able to get some? Maybe he had a connection in the movie industry.
@zaftra
5 жыл бұрын
There the same trey as the alien in the 70's horror prey. Bowie used some in man who fell to earth.
@DIESEL0759
4 жыл бұрын
You can get colour contacts, but they would be hard lenses and not terribly comfortable. The Incredible Hulk TV show mentioned how actor Bill Bixby (who was very nearsighted in real life) absolutely hated the lenses and couldn't stand wearing them for very long, and most of the people associated with the show has said that contact lens technology in the 70s was fairly primitive.
@dannyhipolito817
2 жыл бұрын
@@eliezervelezful maybe the promoter asked for those from some sources like the British film industry
@hounddogjonny
16 жыл бұрын
An awesome and important event in wrestling history. We are not worthy.
@tonypastor705
Жыл бұрын
hound dog Jonny- We are worthy- get a life!
@alexreid
16 жыл бұрын
There could be no finer venue for this historic occasion than . . . Wolverhampton
@fretboardmaster70
Жыл бұрын
Saturday Afternoon… wasn’t it eh? 4pm World Of Sport.. Wrestling… Marvelous.. Small boys using jumpers for goal posts .. Cheesy Peas for tea… don’t quote me on that …
@kwaal
11 жыл бұрын
The Kendo Nagasaki that wrestled in America was a different person using the same name. The Kendo you saw in Portland was played by Kazuo Sakurada and was legitimately Japanese. He wore facepaint instead of a mask.
@DIESEL0759
4 жыл бұрын
He just died not long ago.
@GravityBoy72
3 жыл бұрын
Oh... the drama.... Last time I was this excited was when I tried on a pair of gloves in Woolworths.
@jnews1295
3 жыл бұрын
It’s Phil Anselmo from Pantera! 😂🤘
@digitalmaverickuk
Ай бұрын
The voice of the guy speaking the introduction and wearing a wig, makeup and a cloak, sounds to me like Steve Coogan the UK comedian 🤔
@GriffinNoel1
7 ай бұрын
What was the reason for him Unmasking? Did they feel the gimmick needed a refresh? Was he just tired of wearing the mask?
@mow7806
6 жыл бұрын
Legend.
@asensibleyoungman2978
2 ай бұрын
0:46 'Its' forbidden for anyone else to wear this particular hairstyle.' Wow! That's a bummer.
@CreepX
5 жыл бұрын
What a performance... his eyes are BLACK!!
@DrewKane
8 жыл бұрын
hare kṛiṣhṇa hare kṛiṣhṇa kṛiṣhṇa kṛiṣhṇa hare hare hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare
@wil.61
4 жыл бұрын
Jeez.
@burndenpaddock741
11 жыл бұрын
A bloke on first name terms with the great man should really know the answer.
@teamblitz1990
6 ай бұрын
I hazard a guess not many people had a hairstyle such as Kendo Nagasaki so not many people would have done it.
@SteveSandersonArt
11 жыл бұрын
This is sooo cool!! love it
@SmeggingGallifreyan
11 жыл бұрын
The mystery is revealed! how Kendo Nagasaki lost his finger, was it in a samurai battle, in a war......no actually it was in a industrial workplace accident
@chidlowt
2 жыл бұрын
Think you're getting Kendo mixed up with Tony Iommi :-)
@BonkersAboutAlice
2 жыл бұрын
Isn't the ring the workplace?..)
@MrClitheroe
2 жыл бұрын
Did Dave Allen work in the same place? ;)
@josephgeorge1315
2 жыл бұрын
That's real inspirational, I've always respect a guy like kendo Nagasaki, just like the original kendo Nagasaki.
@barrysmith1651
3 жыл бұрын
I was in tearsv
@007CoDMaster
15 жыл бұрын
because he is an albino he wass my dads fav wrestler back in thee day xD
@honoredutrey
4 жыл бұрын
What a load of"cobblers" !
@milowagon
5 жыл бұрын
They say he played the sax on Baker Street.
@stwads
12 жыл бұрын
I recall Billy Howes pulled his mask off during a wrestling bout on the telly!
@rossmatheson4303
5 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I was coming here to say. Kendo was mentioned in conversation to me recently and I was certain I'd seen this and everyone said no, he was always a mystery. Did the commentators not realise who he was when that happened and referred to him by name as a wrestler from the past? I seem to remember them all going nuts at the time but I was about 8 and my memory is hazy now. Obviously pre-internet, the likes of this unveiling would all have been far less known of when Howes pulled his mask off at a later date. I'd love to know the timeline of it all.
@JohnSmith-4U
9 күн бұрын
its 2024......this is sooooooo exciting!!!
@wayofthecass
8 жыл бұрын
An truly fascinating insight into authentic Japanese culture there!!! God UK wrestling was bargain basement. Absolutely cheap as chips. I remember when it was on the way out in the 80's on Saturday mornings. But back in the 70's millions were tuning in to watch it over their cornflakes.
@Ricardo19748
6 ай бұрын
He was not the original kendo Nagasaki
@greedyd5524
8 жыл бұрын
Not one straight guy in the ring
@lillianflorence6056
Жыл бұрын
Big daddie a bullie no need to unmask him ,
@thethinker8805
5 жыл бұрын
Put the effin mask back on, please!
@fodigie
16 жыл бұрын
i was an avid wrestling fan in the 70's and 80's but i don't remember seeing this!
@colinlowe8106
7 жыл бұрын
it's sid little without his glasses on...
@0004pedro
11 жыл бұрын
All I can say is, it's a good thing I never saw this as a kid. It would have frightened me silly.
@Narutowarrior001
14 жыл бұрын
The Demon of hell....
@superlyger
4 жыл бұрын
Kendo is currently in a relationship with a man. And getting bum rushed.
@simonward7653
4 жыл бұрын
He was married to a woman, Yvette, for a while but has since come out as transexual.
@adeageddon
11 ай бұрын
Been a wrestling fan for decades, it was my late Father who took me to the events, I remember with fond memories. Kendo - right, this question has had me curious for quite a time, his eyes, as an artist myself, using makeup and SFX with contact lenses, I'm intrigued how did someone wear full sclera lenses for that amount of time, plus in the 70's they would have been the mega expensive hard compound types, that you could only keep in for 15 mins? Unlike the soft latex types that are used now, certainly incredible to then go and have a scrap with them in! Unless his eyes are as tough as he STILL is!
@Davidand-Goliath
11 жыл бұрын
when was he unmasked because if he was wrestling in the late 70s and 80s surely he would be an older man also was he not bigger and fatter than this?
@simonward7653
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. He put on loads of weight.
@1851davidb
14 жыл бұрын
I always thought he was called was Ken Bomb
@psychorider46
10 жыл бұрын
well that is not the original kendo check this one out where big daddy un masks him in about 1975 1975 BIG DADDY REMOVES MASK OF KENDO NAGASAKI
@KrowTheOmEgA777
4 жыл бұрын
Actually it is the same guy there Mr Magoo
@antichrist666uk
3 жыл бұрын
Its the same person .
@Didda3
3 жыл бұрын
Saturday itv world of sport, ken walton, 4pm loved it. Began watching wrestling with my grandfather and father and then with my son and grandson. Albeit WWE with son and grandson. Seen British and WWE live. Luckily. And met the most of them.
@lillianflorence6056
Жыл бұрын
Looks good to me,
@littlebigman6957
Жыл бұрын
His real name is Peter Thornley. What a brilliant showman. A very hard man . Both in aout of the ring
@walterbaws
13 жыл бұрын
Is he now the Stig ?
@doryenmctown4795
2 жыл бұрын
I love old school British wrestling pomp and circumstance
@Shads5
Жыл бұрын
Remember watching this when I was about 11 or 12 and was creeped out. Always was my favourite wrestler of that era
@Chuloloc
14 жыл бұрын
Classic.
@Mp25DIII
4 жыл бұрын
2:49--guy's wearing a suit to the wrestling matches...these days you wear a shirt with a collar you're risking your life
@Suriel1981
14 жыл бұрын
@alexreid Wolverhampton has sacred powers to prevent a newly-unmasked wrestler's career from tanking. If Psicosis and Juventud Guerrera had unmasked in Wolverhampton they would be multi-time world champs by now. Rey Misterio Jr (I refuse to use WWE spelling) actually DID unmask in Wolverhampton. WCW used Ted Turner's money to change the decor of the whole city to make it look like America. Then they changed it back to looking like a shithole.
@johnfellows2867
2 жыл бұрын
A secret retreat of meditation, he lives in Stoke on Trent !
@rlough1980
12 жыл бұрын
If you had any sense you'd know that it was pre-determined. That is NOT the same as fake. Get an education.
@MidasWilder
2 жыл бұрын
That was freaking cool.
@J316-k9y
3 жыл бұрын
That is not the real kendo...the real kendo was unmasked by big daddy..his face was twisted_up
@RSR423
2 жыл бұрын
No, Big D unmasked the same guy, this is Peter Thornley, I know because I lived down the road from him and saw him most days, without his mask.
@jacksugden8190
6 жыл бұрын
When he unmasked, should never had wrestled again.
@dsriggs
15 жыл бұрын
That was another Kendo Nagasaki. This one never wrestled out of England.
@dissyduster
3 жыл бұрын
was my nans paper boy,back in day,,,
@SatansMother
15 жыл бұрын
Is there a better place to be unmasked than Wolverhampton?
@bettydaw1970
12 жыл бұрын
@dirkbogarde44 he does..is he wearing colored contact lenses?
@elijahwilson1659
3 жыл бұрын
Aren't there 2 kendo Nagasaki
@questionthemark4982
4 жыл бұрын
the original Question Mark?
@KrowTheOmEgA777
4 жыл бұрын
IS THE TATTOO REAL?????????/
@WELLBRAN
15 жыл бұрын
Probably a Mancunian lol
@jahovia11
13 жыл бұрын
Ring looks small for a wrestling match....
@woabeatz9717
5 жыл бұрын
Midget... Saki
@wil.61
4 жыл бұрын
Wots with the eyes......?
@steveblack610
3 жыл бұрын
😲”Get on with it.”😲
@isaachunt5799
4 жыл бұрын
lol it's phil oakey
@charlie1029able
11 жыл бұрын
is kendo still alive? someone please reply
@maraviyoso8473
5 жыл бұрын
I think both Kendos are alive
@Daniel1985LDN
5 жыл бұрын
He is, as I met him yesterday at a charity event, he is healthy & doing very well 👍🏽
@DIESEL0759
4 жыл бұрын
This Kendo is alive. The Japanese one died in January 2020.
@simonward7653
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, very much alive. His name is Peter Thornley. He does some great charity work.
@danerius6051
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Nagasaki.
@123tenzan
4 жыл бұрын
That's not him. He is Japanese former wrestler, born name is Kazuo Sakurada.
@benjiespike
3 жыл бұрын
@@123tenzan Nope. False info. The wrestler in the video is Peter Thonley, the original Kendo - OBVIOUSLY
@Wumzum
15 жыл бұрын
why are his eyes like that?
@KhanCarnivore
12 жыл бұрын
This was back in the day, you cant expect it to be as entertaining as WWE.
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