This is a short in the Willie Whopper series produced by Iwerks studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
For some reason, I wasn't overly impressed by this cartoon, though I am a bit curious as to whether or not Chuck Jones or Michael Maltese saw this one at any point before doing Bunny Hugged, which is a much superior wrestling cartoon.
Willie is shining the shoes of a large man reading a paper and it may well be obvious to everyone but Willie who this will eventually turn out to be, particularly after Willie decides to tell one of his "whoppers".
Willie tells all about the night he beat the champ. It starts out with Willie being unable to even hold his own against a trainer! Willie gets roughed up getting a friendly rub down and then takes a shower. There are some stereotype gags in this short.
We see the march into the ring, with Mary in the crowd. There, the ref is also the announcer and he tears sheets off a roll of toilet paper as he introduces the two. The time keeper has an odd way to ring the bell and the match begins.
There's a fair amount of reused footage in here, mainly the re-use of one gag several times where a swarthy fan of Willie's exhorts him to "Geeve eat to heam, Willie!" in a thick Mexican accent. Willie actually gets the worst of it in the match starting out, until he and Mary cheat. Willie covers himself in cold cream to make himself too slippery and then proceeds to tire the champ into submission.
The ending of the short is rather obvious and not terribly funny or novel. Still the short looks reasonably nice and it and the other shorts in the series are now available on a Blu-Ray/ DVD combo released by Thunderbean, which is very nice and well worth getting.
For some reason, I wasn't overly impressed by this cartoon, though I am a bit curious as to whether or not Chuck Jones or Michael Maltese saw this one at any point before doing Bunny Hugged, which is a much superior wrestling cartoon.
Willie is shining the shoes of a large man reading a paper and it may well be obvious to everyone but Willie who this will eventually turn out to be, particularly after Willie decides to tell one of his "whoppers".
Willie tells all about the night he beat the champ. It starts out with Willie being unable to even hold his own against a trainer! Willie gets roughed up getting a friendly rub down and then takes a shower. There are some stereotype gags in this short.
We see the march into the ring, with Mary in the crowd. There, the ref is also the announcer and he tears sheets off a roll of toilet paper as he introduces the two. The time keeper has an odd way to ring the bell and the match begins.
There's a fair amount of reused footage in here, mainly the re-use of one gag several times where a swarthy fan of Willie's exhorts him to "Geeve eat to heam, Willie!" in a thick Mexican accent. Willie actually gets the worst of it in the match starting out, until he and Mary cheat. Willie covers himself in cold cream to make himself too slippery and then proceeds to tire the champ into submission.
The ending of the short is rather obvious and not terribly funny or novel. Still the short looks reasonably nice and it and the other shorts in the series are now available on a Blu-Ray/ DVD combo released by Thunderbean, which is very nice and well worth getting.