Most Big Venues in the 1950's and 1960's Featured MASKED Wrestlers fairly regularly on their Shows!
A Career Masked Wrestler with a bit of an Unbeaten Run was always a Great Draw at Arenas such as
the 6,000 Seater KINGS HALL BELLE VUE in MANCHESTER!-Would this be the Nite he would Finally
Lose and his Face and Identity would Finally be Revealed??
For this Thread-I am Focusing on BELLE VUE for the Years between 1961 and 1963!
Probably for Contractural Reasons the Top MASKED Wrestler during this Period-COUNT BARTELLI-
made NO Appearances at all at the KINGS HALL!
The Most Prolific Visitor to Frequent this Iconic Hall in these 3 Years was THE MASK-Who Wrestled
here 17 Times without Defeat!
Curiously the ZEBRA KID only made 5 Appearances-the First being on SATURDAY 11TH FEBRUARY
1961 when he fought to a Double Count-Out with JIM HUSSEY!
His other 4 Visits-All MASKED-were all AFTER he Lost his Mask to BARTELLI at HANLEY on 5/3/1961!
There were just 3 Other HOODED Wrestlers who came to BELLE VUE during this Time-2 were on
'Runs'-One was an ONLY Appearance!-All three of these MASKED Men came just the ONCE!
And Strangely All of them were on within just a few short Weeks of Each Other in JANUARY 1963!!!
Starting with the Show for MONDAY JANUARY 14TH-We have THE LEGIONNAIRE-a Villain Clad from
Top to Toe in Blue!-He Defeats JIM ARMSTRONG of LEEDS by K.O.
MAIN MASK
