I am interested in how managers worked pay wise in wrestling. From Kendo's autobiography we learned that he has to share his pay with George Gillette. I am assuming that many managers were just happy to be in the limelight or accompanying a family member or partner. But Charlie McGee doesnt seem to fit those categories. Any have any idea what his relationship with joint was? Did he draw a salaray or was he just a superfan. I know WAW based in Norwich like to use fans in creative ways.
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He loved the drama and when he got a bust nose whilst timekeeping for Cassidy he was pontificating like a cross between Barry Stuart Hargreaves and Noel Coward.he added nothing but you couldn't make daddy's tags any worse.
Yep, that sounds like a Big D tag match!
He did the odd tag against Daddy. Wouldn't call it wrestling, more running into the man and falling down.
Hi Paul, I only seem to remember him as a manager, did he used to wrestle as well?, I would have to go back and look on Youtube, or something like that.
I agree it would be a dream, I was just wondering if he was in the "business" already and jumped at the chance of being a manager/side kick, which we didn't see a lot of in the UK. Kendo had a manager/spokesperson (George Gillette most famously, then Lloyd Ryan, etc.), Dave Finlay had Princess Paula (I would say George and Paula were the most famous ones, unless I am forgetting someone), Drew McDonald had Dr. Monika Kaiser, The Exorcist had Jamie Barrington, Charlie McGee had some tag teams or worked with Drew and Monika.
More often than not, this took place in the 80's, I think only Kendo had a manager in the 1970's wrestling scene.
Thanks Saxon. Why wouldn't fans want to get in on the action? i am not sure Max would shell out on deadwood, maybe he got a fee when he fought, maybe not. I can see that it would be a dream for many when the sport was at its peak.
I seem to remember we talked about him in the old "1Stop Wrestling" forums, over 15 years ago?
David Mantell would be the person to give us background information on that era.
Charlie McGee just (to me at least) seemed to appear on TV from nowhere, managing wrestlers and tag teams on a quest to beat Big Daddy. I don't remember any sort of explanation from Kent Walton as to who he was, where he came from, or why he was on a personal crusade against Big D? Maybe Kent had given up on the daft storylines at that point?
I seem to think he first turned up in a suit and tie but wearing a wrestlers mask?, then over the coming weeks and months, ditched the mask.
Would he have been working in a paid role?, why would Max pay him when he was literally not adding any bums to seats (Big D took care of that part)?
If not paid, then was he just a super fan who managed to live his dream and end up in a wrestling ring on TV, or was he a fringe player in the industry who just struck lucky in an era where there were very few "managers" in British Wrestling?
I saw him as a second in one TV bout.
OnlyGeorge and possibly Jamie Barrington had any effect. Charles had hung round independent promoters for years early seventies in Manchester he famously told punters in Holdsworth Hall during the interval wrestling was pure classical theatre stating he been involved in a 8 man masked tourney.not wrestling obviously. He then went on to say blood capsules were used in wrestling. Coincidently Cassidy slammed his head into the table the lump was real and blood from eyebrow wasn't frothy like joke shop capsule
He later appeared fronting daddy fodder and last I heard was a clown in a circus.