By 1951 BERT ROYAL was getting quite Established as a 'Rising Star'!!
But what was he like at the very Beginning of his Wrestling Career!?-Have you heard that
Expression-'Still Wet Behind the Ears'!
Well here he is!!....
Is BERNARD among these Autograph Hunters then??
Did BERNARD 'Burst his Hat'??
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These forties appearances do of course generate a new Waltonism.
Kent always told us that Bert chose Royal as a ring name because he turned pro in Coronation year. Clearly this was just another example of him compliantly shaving five or ten years off the ages of the middle-aged bill-toppers of the late sixties and seventies.
I remember one World of Sport. Incredibly we saw the dressing room and McManus lacing up his boots. This was to celebrate that Mick had "unblievably" reached his fiftieth birthday. But this was not in 1972! Many years later.