Wrestling? In Sunnyside??? Traditional Cache
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Wrestling? In Sunnyside???
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The Sunnyside Garden Arena was originally built as a a private club at Queens Boulvard and 45 Street. It was sold and became a boxing arena in 1945.
It would eventually house wrestling cards, featuring New York's top star Antonino "Argentina" Rocca, in the early days of television. Toots Mondt and Vince McMahon (Sr.) of Capitol Wrestling regularly taped the cards in the building. However, Capitol withdrew from NWA and formed WWWF in 1963.
Rocca, of whom WWWF no longer felt any need, partnered with an NWA promoter Jim Crockett Sr. of North Carolina to start an opposition to WWWF at the Sunnyside in 1963, but their promotion lasted only until early 1964.
WWWF returned to the building afterwards and continued to promote the cards until the building was sold in 1977. It was torn down and replaced by a hamburger chain that still operates today.
Notable wrestlers were Bruno Sammartino, Prof. Toru Tanaka/Mr. Fuji , Haystacks Calhoun defeated Nikolai Volkoff , Chief Jay Strongbow among many many others.
As a kid, I never got to see any wrestling matches but I did watch a few golden glove bouts. My dad would drive us over from Greenpoint to watch the fights..
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