While I was Sorting Thru a Few Hundred Posters the Other Day-I came across This 'Gem'!!
CATCHWEIGHT Contests were Quite Prolific on Bills and Popular with Wrestling Fans!
But For Me there were 2!! Basic Criteria for Staging These Bouts!!
1-The Match had to 'WORK'!
2- The Match had to be 'CREDIBLE'!!
Often The Lighter Man could be 'Giving Away' up to 3 Stone in these kinds of Contests and the
'Balance'would still have been O.K. and 'Manageable'!!
But Why? Oh Why? did They Put-On Matches with Much Bigger Weight 'Disparities' than 3 Stone??
HAYSTAX Doesn't Count for the Purpose of This Thread-Otherwise He'd have had No-One to Fight!!
So Look at This Cracker of an Example Below at WOLVES CIVIC!!
A 'Challenge' Bout!!-What??-Really??
MICK MCMICHAEL versus KOJAK KIRK!!!- ONLY a 10 Stone Weight Difference Then!!
And did MICK Really 'Challenge' KIRK??- Would Never have been the Other Way round!!
Apart from a D.Q. What Chance in a Million did MCMICHAEL have of Winning This Bout??
This isn't Even a 'Mis-Match'...This is Totally Ridiculous!!
WOLVES CIVIC had a Bit of a 'Reputation' of Staging Weird and Wacky Contests-but What an
Insult to the Intelligence of Fans for them to be Expected to 'Accept' This as a 'Legitamate'
Wrestling Match!!-One Slight 'Mis-Judgement' or Accidental Slip-Up and MCMICHAEL could
have been Seriously Hurt/Injured against the Bulk of 23 Stone!!
Can Anyone Beat a 10 Stone Weight Difference in a CATCHWEIGHT Contest??....NOT
Including DADDY or STAX Then??
MAIN MASK
I don't remember ever seeing these huge weight discrepancies in the 1950's, except times when Morrell brought handicap matches to Newcastle.