Looking thru my Collection of Bills from the 1940's/1950's- I was surprised to find quite
a few Wrestler's Names which were Unfamiliar to me and also seemingly NOT in the
A-Z!- I've Assembled just a handful of these and maybe Members can help with Who
they were-If they were very Short-Lived in the Sport andso on??....
I'll start with AL WALSH-Billed from NEWTOWN up against JOE DALLAS-'from'
BIRMINGHAM-Who 'knows all the holds and escapes'!!-This from 1959!...
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I do enjoy these posters. Thanks a lot MM. Bartelli met a Jap in Honolulu! Did Bartelli ever go to Honolulu?
Johnny Mack was the father of 1960s/70s wrestler Johnny Locke (Johnny Palance)
Len Ring moved to New Zealand and became a back specialist.
Main Mask, I hope you will consider doing a Heritage Gallery for these Sutton & Kirkby bills. A lot of them contain new information & it would be great to have them in one place.
One important feature that I greatly appreciate about these old bills: they kept the font size the same for everyone, so that any given wrestler could easily slip into top-of-the-bill status.
Once McManus got the power and got the pen, the lesser lights were billed in tiny lettering (by comparison with his own, that got only ever bigger)
Pedro Gonzales worked for Atholl Oakeley as Gonzales the Gorilla. Len Ring was around for many years.
And here we have MORRIS SELWYN-an 'Internationally Famed Grappler'!! Never heard of him Fighting Someone I HAVE heard of- FRANCIS SULLIVAN!!
The FESTIVAL HALL is 'Air Conditioned'!!
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