Modesto Aledo! Teddy Boy!

Modesto Aledo v Teddy Boy (French Catch, 10/13/60)

This was unbelievable. Modesto Aledo is a Spanish lightweight who later in his career wrestled under a mask as Kamikaze, apparently one of the greatest gimmicks in Spanish Catch history. I have seen approximately zero wrestling from Spain but I'll take the word of whoever wrote the one article I read as gospel. Teddy Boy I know nothing about. He has an amazing leather jacket with his name across the back of it, is kitted out in baggy jeans pre-match and has the aloof swagger of a man who's seen some shit and probably caused most of it. The first half of this was an Aledo whirlwind. He was all over Teddy Boy with snug headscissors and one of the tightest headlocks you'll see, getting flung off the ropes before immediately leaping back into it while Teddy tries to knead the shape back into his ears. You could see Teddy getting riled up, maybe losing his composure a little, that cool indifference starting to crack. That he started needling Aledo with pot shots wasn't very surprising. Aledo was visibly rocked and Teddy was like a dog with a bone, stomping him in the spine while the ref' was trying to put on the count, hitting a brutal looking double knee lift right to Aledo's face, just giving him no respite while the crowd were getting more and more irritated. Then he grabs Aledo in a waistlock and fucking lobs him clean overhead to the floor! Twice! This was some of the wildest shit. Aledo took these bumps like a complete screwball, smashing his shoulders and neck off the apron on the way down, being helped back into the ring by spectators only to get heaved that second time, to the exact same outcome. When Teddy goes for it a third time Aledo blocks it and you're thinking we're in for some sweet revenge. Except Teddy just punches him in the guts and fucking launches him again! Three of the most insane bumps ever, 30+ years before Mick Foley upped what we THOUGHT was the bar for insane bumps. Aledo's comeback is everything you want and he goes right for the throat. He smashes Teddy in the nose with elbows, looks to the crowd, soaks in the roar and does it again. Teddy's nose is bloodied and by the end they're beating the brakes off each other, Aledo scooting under Teddy's legs and drilling him in the face with an upkick. The finish is amazing, with Aledo charging in and Teddy using that momentum to throw him out AGAIN, and as the crowd help him back in Teddy is there to quickly press slam him and make the cover. It makes no sense that this is what wrestling could even be in 1960. What a match.