Word: mongols
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...card at the Garden Saturday night was a classic. For the main event, Bruno Samartino and Chief Jay Strongbow challenged Bepo and Gaeto Mongol for the tag team championship of the world. Crusher Verdue, Gorilla Monsoon, the Black Demon, and Little Brutus headlined the openers...
...oddsmaker had a tough time calling the tag team match. Bepo and Gaeto Mongol, who weight in at a combined 610 pounds, are an unbeatable team, but Bruno is everybody's favorite wrestler, and Chief Jay is the strongest thing ever to come out of Oklahoma...
...action was heavy from the beginning. The Chief went in against Gaeto, the lesser Mongol, and the Mongols took the first fall when Gaeto tossed the Chief out of the ring and the Chief stayed there. Some fans were angry at the call, alleging that Gaeto got some help from his partner when the referee wasn't looking. Samartino fans were upset with the quality of the officiating in general. "The referees seem to spend most of their time advising the villains of their constitutional rights," said...
Despite the refereeing, Bruno managed to take the second fall, pinning Gaeto to the mat after delivering one of his murderous death hugs. The match became a battle of the giants as Bruno took on Bepo, the 6'9", 390-pound Mongol. Aided by a few illicit power punches from Gaeto when the referee was distracted, which seemed to be most of the time, Bepo managed to do the impossible-he pinned Samartino and held him for the count. Fortunately, the ref wheeled around in time to see Gaeto sneaking out of the ring, and awarded the match to Bruno...
...discussion period following the match, referee Tom McNeeley showed the form which made him New England Middleweight Boxing Champion ten years ago. His powerful left managed to convince both Mongol Bepo and his villainous manager, Tony Angelo, of the correctness of his decision. The crowd approved...