Main Mask has kindly shared a new Alan Garfield photo:
I've been looking everywhere for the 2004 thread which we have revived every five years or so as we have moved forum location, but this time I just can't find it. Can anyone help?
We had so much magnificent communal research and memories in one very long thread, including personal recollections from Alan Garfield's nephew. And valuable new memories as new Members have joined over the years.
We had also grouped lots of photos, inclusing this one which Main Mask has also found:
Hi Ron
Part of my fascination with Alan Garfield - and there are many many parts - is that he mischievously wanted to push the level of (in)credibility as far as a he could. Here he taunts Americans by giving them vent to their stereotypes of foreigners. So hard for us to judge now: you call it tosh, but it clearly put bums on seats. Impossible to know how many US fans would have swallowed even part of this way back then. At least Garfield was British! For my part back in the sixties I knew that Nagasaki was Japanese. Thanks for the post, we have quite good coverage of his two US tours.
Hi John
Just because we have only one poster for Garfield in France it doesn't mean that he only wrestled there the once. Judo Al Hayes linked up plenty of UK wrestler for work in France. We have only scratched at the surface and probably are aware of fewer than one per cent of French bills. Given that we know that the likes of Royal and Davies and Taylor and Hesselle and Bert and many others channel-hopped with some regularity, also pre-1961, and not to mention Hayes and Hunter, we can also imagine that Garfield did too - though chunks of his career were spent in South Africa and Stateside. Interesting that the likes of Dr Death and McManus, invincible on their own bills, were wise enough not to expect French stars to succumb to them.