Gilbert Leduc vs. Rocco Lamban

[7.0] "Good French catch here, some tremendous holds/moments in this as well. As good as it can got. A bit longer than it should've been but still one of the best French catch you could ever see in that era. ***1/2"

[8.0] "Another badass, slow-burn Leduc performance with great tight grappling and those amazing giant forearm thingies he throws that hit beautifully every time."

[8.0] "This was a great babyface vs heel 2/3 falls match. Leduc is the babyface and the technically superior wrestler winning the first fall. Rocco gets nastier after the first fall and the animosity builds really well here until the finish"

[9.0] "Gilbert Leduc put on a masterful performance in this match. The first fall was him at his best, throwing uppercuts and spinning in and out of holds with ease. The next falls were focused more on Lamban getting increasingly frustrated and getting some cheap shots in, leading to a very long sequence of dragon sleeper attempts and escapes. The match could have been incredible had they kept the momentum from the first fall, but even with the slower pace this still ended up being really great. ****1/4"

[7.0] "Another real great one from this scene, thematically quite similar to the Carpentier/Gagne match which makes me wonder how wrestlers back then were consuming other wrestling. Given those two matches are 5 months apart and in totally different countries and scenes I highly doubt this actually took inspiration from an NWA Chicago match but still cool to see patterns come out. This is much more face/heel focused though but still has the much superior athlete in Leduc thwarting Lamban over and over who gets progressively more aggressive and bends the rules to get the upperhand. Leduc picks up the first fall and things go in his favour for a good minute until Lamban finally puts his dragon sleeper to work enough times that Leduc can't fight out. Much like Carpentier in Gagne's sleeper, Leduc is totally out of it and the third fall consists entirely of the outmatched desperate man trying to get his one devastating hold in. Lamban actually has a real sustained gameplan in the second fall especially to take the wind out of Leduc with knees to the gut and a choke where he holds Leduc in a body slam to block the referee. This time though the babyface triumphs and finds one last counter to the dragon sleeper which is essentially a standing shiranui, another move that's popped up in this era of footage previously in Cesca/Catanzaro. Yet another that's probably a touch too long but still hits the spot."