Sunday, September 11, 2011

Harry Smith and Bobby Lashley vx Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin in Japan September 2011

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkwz7j_igf-genome-17-kazuyuki-fujita-kendo-kashin-vs-bobby-lashley-harry-smith_sport
 I am very proud to see my son Harry wrestling in the same styles as his late father Davey Boy Smith and late grandfather Stu Hart did.  My brothers Bret and late brother Owen also knew their share of submission and technical wrestling and could hold their own against pretty well anyone.  I believe all of them faced their hardest battles wrestling amongst themselves, whether it was Davey Boy against his extremely salty and athletic cousin The Dynamite Kid aka Tommy Billington, or Bret wrestling against Owen in Madison Square Garden, they wrestled their hearts out against the very closest allies.  When my father wrestled or trained his sons, and sons-in-law, they were taught tolerance of pain and humiliation, and how to fight for their lives and the honour of the great sport of grappling and later professional wrestling.  I am so proud to see my son Harry wrestling in Japan, where I can witness his steel-like confidence and truly endless knowledge for combat contact sports.  I was impressed to see the how well Harry's solid stomps and kicks connected in this match, and how well he and Bobby did as a tag together, since they never tagged before, or wrestled each other before.  The language barrier between the two teams also is something I want to refer to here, as they are not fluent in Japanese and their opponents are not fluent in English, and never had any of them battled each other before, and they put on a suberb wrestling exhibition, the kind my father (and mother) and the Stampede Wrestling promotion in Calgary used to provide every week for over forty years to its loyal fans.
Just to see a match concluded with a solid suplex after several minutes of real strategic wrestling moves and tag work, was something I have not seen in years, and it makes me glad to be a wrestling fan, again.
One fan wrote to me on facebook and said it was great to see Harry not collecting dust anymore on the WWE shelf, and I thought that was a good way of putting it--he is not collecting dust and he is going to go to the top of this great sport of professional wrestling and he will go to the top of the world of mixed martial arts too.  It is already happening, even if everyone can't see it from where they are now--it is happening--the evolution of Harry Smith!
Speaking of mixed martial arts, I want say how thrilling it is to see one of my family's favourite MMA fighters (champion in our eyes), Josh Barnett win last night against Sergei Khoritonov.  Josh said in one of his pre- fight tweets that Sergei was in fantastic shape and was a tough competitor.  I am glad to see that there is respect for the hard work of the opponent, as it only makes the winner that much more accomplished when he/she has defeated someone who they regarded as a challenge to begin with.  My father never underestimated his opponents either, at least not openly.  Perhaps in his mind he always was bracing himself for victory, but he never undervalued his challengers, (especially ones like Siberian tigers or Canadian Stompers or butchers named Abdullah).



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IGF Genome 17 - Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Kashin vs Bobby Lashley & Harry Smith