In The 1960's and Early 1970's there were Some Great Matches for The BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT
Championship! Top Names Spring to Mind- BILLY ROBINSON-BILLY JOYCE-ALBERT WALL!!
But When WALL Retired from The Ring-Taking his MOUNTEVANS BELT with him by the way-
Changes were afoot!- GWYN DAVIES Won The Crown-for his 2ND Time and a Worthy Champion-
he Held The Belt for 2 Years or so-Defending Many Times Including against STEVE VEIDOR!!
But by 1977 a 'Change of The Guard' was Decided-and DAVIES Came to My Beloved KINGS HALL
BELLE VUE to Defend his Title against TONY ST. CLAIR- See My Poster for This Show Below!
GWYN was to Lose his Belt via the D.Q. Route-a Possible 'Verdict' I Strongly DISAGREE with!!-
It C'ANT Happen This Way in AMERICA for a Title to Change Hands-which is Correct in My View-
because it Rules-Out The 'Challenger' doing his Best to get The Champion Disqualified to Win!!
Nothing against TONY ST.CLAIR-Who I Think was also a Worthy Champion!
It Seems DAVIES Radically Cut Down on his Wrestling after This-Possibly due to either Health?
or Business Reasons?- He Came Back More Regularly a Couple of Years Later!!
So a Fair Enough Title Change between 2 Very Good Heavyweights!
But could ST.CLAIR Keep The HEAVYWEIGHT Championship 'Credible' under The New 'Ruler'
MAX CRABTREE??.....
See Below!....
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or where he put his rhubarb
It depended on who,what, and when.Or if Max had had his prunes for breakfast
Perhaps I should have explained the ending to the Tony St.Clair vs Pat Roach British Heavyweight Title bout in June 1978 a bit clearer. From my memory of this bout from 43 years ago, Tony St.Clair performed a perfectly legal posting on Pat Roach, who then tumbled backwards out of the ring and was counted out. So, St.Clair was correctly declared the winner, he had not delibrately thrown Pat Roach over the top rope.
However, Adrian is correct, I can remember several instances, when someone threw their opponent delibrately over the top rope and was then declared the winner and other instances when someone was disqualified for doing the same thing (Mick McManus lost his European Middleweight Title to Mal Sanders on such a disqualification).
In answer to alanapally's question about whether Tony St.Clair ever beat Pat Roach other than by disqualification, I did watch a bout on TV, shown on 17th June 1978, where Pat Roach took on Tony St.Clair for the British Heavyweight Title and St.Clair won by knock out. I watched the bout on TV and I remember it as a very good bout. I believe the score was 1 fall each when St.Clair threw Roach over the top rope and Roach was counted out.
Sick, innit. All these heavyweight title bouts finishing as disqualifications.
I read many years ago that the result in the Tony St.Clair vs Big Daddy bout at Bridlington on 25th July 1977 was that Big Daddy was disqualified. I believe that Big Daddy was still wrestling as a heel until just after this time.
I was there the night Tony St.Clair beat Gwynn Davies by disqualification at Belle Vue to become British heavyweight champion. Not only was it a disqualification but it was a technical disqualification. The bout was wrestled cleanly by both men but St.Clair sent Davies temporarily reeling from a forearm smash and, as Davies reeled, he involuntarily raised his foot catching St.Clair in the testicles.
Did Tony ever manage to defeat Wayne Bridges or Pat Roach via falls/submissions and not by disqualification?
Valid points, Main Mask.
But I bet it wasn't a draw: Shirl over 15 rounds? --- 15 minutes would have been impossible.
Some awful cop-out no doubt; a no contest, the noble Crabtree refusing the decision and belt, someone tripping and hurting themself.
When the fans would have accepted a dynamic drop-kick ko from Tony in the third. But that was unthinkably straight.
He rolled over for Naggers, could have done so for TSC.
Any way we can access the result?
This was probably prior to 1979 when Shirley was still wrestling equal number of solo & tag contests. Shirley also lost to Tony St. Clair in the eliminators for the British title.
Oh NO!!- Is This FOR REAL???- TONY ST. CLAIR is Probably 'Forced' to
Defend his HEAVYWEIGHT Title against........Oh NO!!- BIG DADDY!!
How 'Credible' is This??-Possibly 2 Big Splashes and it's All Over??
But DADDY DIDN'T Win For Once!!-Was it a 'Draw'-After All DADDY could
NOT Lose-Could he??
My Point here is:- How could DADDY be a 'Meritorious' Challenger by hardly
doing any Proper Wrestling in his 'Matches'??
If you Want to Bring The 'PRESTIGE' of This Lofty Crown Right Down-Then
This 'Contest' at The SPA ROYAL HALL in BRIDLINGTON is the Way to Go!!
The RIDICULOUS!!
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