I hope unlike my last post I haven't covered this before,Dales at Brixton rd was a rambling building and rife with gossip one employee revelled in it I can hear his gossipy camp delivery now. One such bit of gossip I have never been able to yeah or ney. Namely Good old Les had beef to use Kent's terminology witnTerry Rudge,Terry was always totally professional so if true why,I witnessed les Punched full on by Terry and bout curtailed from the second gate below the band area it looked vicious but why,were we overrunning was the orange clock approaching nine.So did anyone see Old Les v Terry.
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I can't find them working together after that show in Ray's files.
Interestingly, by the end of 1975 they were both working for the independents.
Ron = Mustard!
And the certain individual was undoubtedly Puffing Billy! (Nobody was happy with him, except perhaps McManus, in front of whom he absolutely wilted on tv, albeit two stones heavier.)
I probably was not at this show , but is this a possibility.
Apologies I mentioned the band stand the gates the clock not the venue belle Vue of course,hope Ron can work his magic,he did on my ancestry and I had very vague info and that stories ongoing
That's great, Paul, cheers! Work appraisal is central to most industries, especially the performing arts. Mick for a while at least was there putting together all these heavyweight bouts of wrestlers he had never faced...quite a responsibility.
Back to Terry Rudge: I do recall he was very prominently featured in the Mick McManus Wrestling Book of 1970. He seemed headed fo the stars at that time; but by a year or two later his career had plateaued. It may well be that something "happened" and he was kept to support bouts if he couldn't be trusted to put over the bigger names who were twice his age.
It also seems that Mick and Les were very very close.
Terry Rudge was great. In bouts versus Dalibar Singh, or Bomber Pat Roach he had the right amount of skill and aggression to challenge heavier opponents.
Terry Rudge was great. In bouts versus Dalibar Singh, or Bomber Pat Roach he had the right amount of skill and aggression to challenge heavier opponents.
Yeah the fox not the illustrator Ost.Anglo it's something I recalled recently,Mick had a series of books but where did the info come from well mainly refs three in particular they related heat,professional standards and compliance.Martin Conroy did his personally but Jack Atherton could relay the same info as could Stan Rylands.back to Dales Charlie was purely maths,others like f p Blake nothing.Bob verlander was trusted to be impartial for norman ,Ernie sometimes a bit biased.
Terry Rudge always looked like he could handle himself.
Hi Paul,
I don't know about Rudge and Les.
But you were clearly one of those wrestlers who watched the other bouts. I recall Torontos, Czeslaw, Syd and Joynson were like this.
Even though I saw McManus on countless bills live, I never ever saw him watching any other bout. Obvious really, he was getting ready during the opener; wrestled in the second bout; and was on his way out by the time the third had started.
So my question to you is: how did he know what the wrestlers were like? How did he make his judgments?
So Les Kellett rather than Les Martin, to clarify.