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January 27, 2023 49 mins
A very special episode of Mat Memories from Madison Square Garden! Tim Puttre and I discuss this house show I attended. Notable for John, as it was the first time he shot 8mm movies at the Garden. We share some of those films at: patreon.com/johnarezzi WWWF @ New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden - January 15, 1973 (22,096)  Sky Low Low & Little Brutus defeated Little Beaver & Farmer Jerome in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match, 2-0; fall #1: Sky & Brutus won at 8:04; fall #2: Sky & Brutus won at 6:58 Women's Champion the Fabulous Moolah defeated Joyce Grable at 5:45 Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon defeated Lee Wong & Ben Ortiz in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match, 2-0; fall #1: the Vachons won at 3:04; fall #2: the Vachons won at 3:19 Black Gordman defeated El Olympico at 8:06 Victor Rivera fought WWWF Tag Team Champion Mr. Fuji to a 20-minute time-limit draw WWWF World Champion Pedro Morales pinned Moondog Mayne at 7:09 with a flying body-press Ray Stevens defeated Sonny King at 7:35 Bruno Sammartino pinned WWWF Tag Team Champion Prof. Toru Tanaka at 11:34 Hosts: John Arezzi and Tim Puttre Researcher: Ritchie Garcia JOIN THE PATREON PAGE FOR THIS PODCAST AND EXPERIENCE 50 YEARS OF HISTORY FROM THE ARCHIVES OF WRESTLING HISTORIAN AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE BEST SELLING BOOK MAT MEMORIES HERE: https://www.patreon.com/JohnArezzi Subscribe to the show's YouTube Channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWrestlingSpotlight Follow John Arezzi Here: https://twitter.com/johnarezzi https://instagram.com/johnarezzi https://www.facebook.com/groups/prowrestlingspotlight https://www.facebook.com/JohnArezzisMatMemories Order a signed and numbered copy of John Arezzi's best selling memoir "MAT MEMORIES, My Wild Ride in Pro Wrestling, Country Music and with the Mets" here:  https://py.pl/1SjMeX Copyright 2023: Alexander Media Services, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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