blueboy
besides rebel ray hunter who were some of the :Dother aussie wrestlers who toured the uk?
james morton
Paul Lincoln for a start
Ron Historyo
I wrote a couple of stories for the site featuring Sam Burmister and Tommy Nilan who both came here.
http://www.wrestlingheritage.com/onthetrail
Hack
There was Bob McMasters and Alan Muir.
Ray Hulm
Don't forget Big Bill Verna.
Ed Lock
Roy Heffernan
Mark Anthony
Murphy the Surfie (wrestled as both Maurice LaRue and Wild Red Berry in Britain; wrestled as Norman Frederick Charles III in America)
Ron Fury
Frank Hurley
Kangaroo Kennedy
Mad Mac
Sharky Ward? Although, there was a school of thought that he was born in the UK and subsequently moved to Australia.
Anglo Italian
Alan Garfield was billed from Sydney!
Ernie Kingston doesn't count either. He was a Kiwi. Which brings me to John Da Silva, also billed from The Shaky Isles. The A-Z tells us he retired from the ring in 1977. Did anyone see him wrestle in the seventies?
Bernard Hughes
Wasn't Bill Coverdale from Oz?
Hack
I've seen him billed as Australian but am not convinced.
George Pencheff came over in the 1930s. Was he actually Australian or was there truth in his Russian lineage?
Bernard Hughes
I saw Bill Coverdale a few times and he was always billed from Australia.
Can Ron help on this please?
Ron Historyo
Can only find one slip where they billed him as South Africa.
Got a few doubts , the name is Yorkshire/North East.
Mad Mac
Indeed it is - the only other Coverdale I can think of is the somewhat more famous David, originally from Saltburn.
Hi Hack
George Pencheff was often billed as being a Russian but his actual heritage was Bulgarian.
An Australian newspaper report in 1941 stated that Pencheff was born in Bulgaria but came to Australia as a boy. The newspaper mentioned that George lived in Sydney and was married to an Australian lady.
Pencheff passed away in Australia in 1986.
George was definitely an Australian wrestler.
Cheers!
The Ost
I don't have an exact date, but John Da Silva moved back to NZ in late 1967 (or early 1968 ) and he continued to wrestle until 1979. Well, that's the latest I have results for him wrestling in NZ.
Ed Lock
G'day All,
My research has not uncovered any reference to Bill Coverdale being an Aussie or even wrestling in Australia.
Eddie Rose's classification of Coverdale in the A-Z as a Mancunian seems accurate to me. :)
ballymoss
Frank Hurley was a genuine Aussie, who was sometimes billed as "Fearsome" Frank Hurley.He did not quite live up to that epithet, but I recall he often partnered Johnnie Yearsley in tag contests, and the combination usually managed to get themselves disqualified. Frank was always value for money and surprisingly a keen ballroom dancer!
Anglo Italian
Rebel Ray Hunter is intriguing in that his nickname is allegedly a genuine reference to his being an unruly DM employee who broke away with Doctor Death and Al Hayes. Then of course back to DM after the merger.
If this is true - and why not, no other available reason - it is more intriguing that the Rebel was attributed to him rather than Hayes or the Doctor. We don't consider Rebel Ray much when discussing Lincoln Promotions but the Rebel suggests he would have been a full partner. I guess like in a parallel thread where we couldn't have "George & Naggers Promotions" you couldn't have "Hunter & the Doctor Present" when they were on the bill. I suppose Paul Lincoln was a suitably anonymous name at the time, albeit a named DM wrestler mi-sixties.
Have we had Paul Lincoln?
Does Hollywood's Doctor Death count on your list, Blueboy? Only in wrestling can we ask such questions!
Hack
Earl Black was said to be Aussie when he first wrestled here. Well he was Yorkshire so I suppose that's foreign.
SaxonWolf
Oi, I heard that!
Hack
Moderator
I thought you might Saxo. Why else would I have said it? Just checking you were awake.
Message for DJMask.
Leon Arras is back on Heritage.
'ow About That?
Thanks Alan. There is no official history of wrestling. It's all about weaving together fragments and putting together a jigsaw. Your family memories are very important to us here however trivial they might seem to you. Thanks for getting in touch and do keep involved in the site. It's amazing how many people are interested in what was a trivial pursuit of half a century and more ago.
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to write to me. My mother Joyce Coverdale died in 1996 and although i do remember her talking about her cousin Bill being a wrestler i unfortunately never met him. I am one of eight children and was born and grew up in the south of Manchester and it would have been impossible to transport so many children on buses that far. My mother was one of nine and they mostly lived in North Manchester and it was tbrough one of my mothermothers cousins who recently enlightened me to my connection with Bill Coverdale. I know his wife was Annie and she made dresses for the family and tgey had no children.
I would be very interested to find out more and if i do i will certainly post on here. I have a brother who looks a lot like Bill Coverdale and unlike me he is a big gentle giant which is how Bill Coverdale'Coverdale's cousin Norma described him to me. Thank you again Alan Teague
Maybe Eddie Rose who still lives in Bury can shed some more light on Bill Coverdale. Might be interesting?
Cheers
I'm zapping this one back up just in case Alan has missed the replies.
Thanks for taking the time to join us Alan and adding some important information. If you or any family members would like to help us improve Bill Coverdale's presence on Heritage please write to us at theriorsquad@hotmail.com
Bill Coverdale is in the A-Z
He has now been added to our list of deceased wrestlers.
Bill Coverdale was my mother's first cousin. His name was William Burton Coverdale and was born on 6th December 1920 and died in June 1974 aged only 53. Although he was billed Australian he was a Manchester man. He had a pub later in his life called The Bridge on Manchester Road in Bury in Lancashire. My mother was Joyce Coverdale and he was a gentleman. Thank you Alan Teague
Hi DJMask. In all of his bouts The Ghoul was always billed from USA in Newcastle bills.
I have never seen it as specific as Boston though. All the rest is as normally quoted.
Counting posts is not possible Bernard. We will make the next Awards as planned on 12th August then open a discussion about how they evolve.
We've opened a new thread for you to explain what you mean about the lay out, and for anyone else to tell us what they think.
https://heritagedocs.wixsite.com/talkwrestling/forum/website-news-and-issues/your-thoughts-and-suggestions-about-the-new-forum
Just a couple of thoughts Hack. First is , how are you going to award belts now, how do you keep count of the number of posts each member has made?
Secondly, although this new forum runs more smoothly , I for one don't like the way that the content and information is laid out.
I think that you and Anglo (when he is awake) do a brilliant job keeping it going, but am I the only one that thinks like this?
Thanks Ron.
Look at any bill for St James Hall with Bill Coverdale on it and I bet that he was billed from Australia.