Following on from Dale Martin possibly ditching The Wild Man of Borneo after a 1958 Eastbourne outing, at the same venue nine years earlier I am surprised to see Count Bartelli nestling in a MIDDLEWEIGHT support bout on a Dale Martin bill featuring Jack Dale and Mick McManus.
I am wondering if things didn't click that night and we see Bartelli excluded from Dale Martin land for the next seventeen years?
He was back wrestling for Dale Martin's in the late sixties but was required to swallow a first round loss in the 1968 RAH Trophy against a much younger and less experienced opponent.
After wheich he assumed top billing on DM shows. But I am just wondering if their was some belated element of dues paying to close the seventeen years in the, relative, wilderness.
Or maybe Eastbourne was just a bit too far on his bike?
Great snippets as ever, Ron, which set my mind imagining circumstances for 60 and 70 years ago...
This whole MIDDLEWEIGHT thing comes as a great surprise, also considering he was taller then.
So does THE WEST AFRICAN ANGEL!
It looks like business interests to me Anglo. The period you talk about , with a few exceptions you don't see him working for Relwyskow much or Morrell.
Almost exclusively with Wryton and also did Liverpool with Best.
Now and again it seems he was tempted to travel.
That said , if he could work Walsall and Birmingham you would think he could do Leicester and Coventry more often than he did.
Always exceptions of course. Bartelli met Stedman at Leicester , they can't have met that often.
Looks like I have to answer my own question through the below. But they still explode the myth that I had believed that Bartelli didn't wrestle for Dale Martin's until 1968.
Note how the 10/6 ringside seat price reduced over the next seven years.: