As we've mentioned quite a few times April 13th is the 15th birthday of Wrestling Heritage.
We would be interested to know:
How did you discover Wrestling Heritage?
What are your favourite sections of the website?
Do you read Heritage on a computer, tablet or mobile?
Or any other observations.
By the mid 1990s most of us thought that these years were consigned to history with the only record or source of information a small number of books held in a few libraries or newspaper archives.Then came the internet and this website helping to keep the heritage alive
And quite a nose it turned out to be. With Dave's valuable forum contributions and splendid Ice Creams, Hot Dogs, Leg Locks and Toe Holds in the Places section
Like many others once that I had access to the internet I started searching for information on some of the wrestlers that I enjoyed watching during the Golden Age and Heritage came up. Taking an instant interest in the forum it wasn't long before I couldn't keep my nose out of the various discussions. The rest,as they say, is history.
I, like SaxonWolf, started out on 1 Stop, where one user was utterly convinced that I was Drew McDonald! The fun here comes from solving the mysteries such as finding out that the man under the mask was someone we knew.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
THIS WEBSITE IS PEERLESS!!!
BRITISH PRO WRESTLING HISTORY= HERITAGE!!!
How did you discover Wrestling Heritage?
- I emailed Ron Historyo on the subject of my Lancashire catch-as-catch-can history studies, and we started an intense email-communication which lasted several months. Ron suggested me joining the Forum and Heritage.
What are your favourite sections of the website?
- A to Z and Galleries, especially those by Ron they are priceless.
Do you read Heritage on a computer, tablet or mobile?
- Personal computer.
Or any other observations.
- I wished more and more ex-pro wrestlers, the families or/and relatives of the former wrestlers joined the Forum and shared their memories.
That's right Peter. We put together a jigsaw puzzle, think we've got it right then someone finds another piece that we have to fit in and move the other bits round.
Thank you Peter. I'd modestly like to agree it is. But it's only because of our collective efforts. Heritage members Like you collect all the pieces and we just put them together to make sense until the next time someone comes along to point out they don't make sense.
The A-Z is phenomenal. Found it particularly useful when the French matches from the 1950s and 60s started appearing on You Tube
It was Mike Hallinan who many years ago told me about the site. Many thanks Mike and to everyone for giving me years of entertainment and instruction.
We have all learnt so much over the last fifteen years. Wrestling history was never going to be an easy nut to crack but what really pleases me is that we have not put anyone down or disrespected those wrestlers who gave so much pleasure to our younger, and perhaps more naive selves. Thanks Hack and Anglo. Here's to another 15 years. Blimey! I'll be 95.
I watched wrestling all through the 1960's and 1970's , saw nearly all of them but forgot many. I did not know anything about promoters or what was going on in the game. I simply enjoyed it especially Kendo Nagasaki. From there I drifted away and in 2009 my father died and I was clearing out the loft of his home. Came across my wrestling mags and sold them on ebay. Hack bought some and told me of the wrestling site and that it was free. I joined but for many years never spoke. I must have one of the longest runs for not speaking as it was the BBC Time Shift Documentary , I think in 2012 , that woke me up as to how big a part Heritage actually had in remembering wrestling form yesteryear. I finally started trying to gain a bit of knowledge by taking part. In the 1970's I used to pick up the Manchester Evening News to see what wrestling was on and where . Being a historian I put 2 and 2 together and hunted down newspapers for the wrestling adverts. My strategy worked and then I had something to offer Heritage. Today I have a collection nearing 25,000 bills.
I enjoy most when we discover and solve mysteries together , Like researching Steve Logan's origins and Jules Kiki. I so wanted to unmask the Ghoul for Bernard and kept appealing not to give up and along came the Ost to show us Bomber Bates's face.
Today I have helped contribute to an encyclopedia of British Wrestling that must be unmatchable for content. Much of it really solid stuff. It's pure fun and never too intense. I came to terms a few years ago that to keep posting , not to expect too much more and that helps me stick around. Still from time to time we erupt into a great debate. I don't find out as much these days but never a day goes by where I don't look in. 15 years for the site is brilliant.
I was part of the old 1StopWrestling forum, which is probably pushing 20 years ago now, where I met (online) a lot of the people on here.
My favourite section is this forum, with the daily interaction, and I always like to skim the A-Z, to pick up background information on people that I don't know much about. I enjoyed reading about the promoters ("Men in Suits"), and am always fascinated by the globe-trotting lifestyle, for those that wanted it.
There is the intrigue about why men wanted to perform in a pair of trunks every night, was it the money, the fame, the glory, the roar of a crowd, a mixture of all three. For some it would have been useful extra money, for others, their sole income, how much of it was declared to the tax man?.....who cares!, some people wrestled under their own name (Adrian Street, Billy Robinson), others adopted a ring name, similar to actors having a stage name, or the occasional boxer (Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano) doing the same. Some men wanted to be home every night, others liked to be away for a month or so, on the German and Japanese tournaments.
While the majority of the UK population would scratch their heads, reading the above, to us on here (or to me at least), this is really interesting stuff, harmless fun of the highest order. It's the reason why I try and pop on here for 10 minutes, every day.
Keep up the good work.
I typed in a wrestlers name into Google and the site popped up. Once on the site I found a real treasure of information and a group of contributors that have collectively probably more knowledge of British wrestling golden age than any other site online. Here's to the next 15 years.
Fifteen years is an achievement. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the WH site. The A-Z is fantastic but the memories of Martin, Ron, Bernard in the memories section are magnificent.
I discovered this brilliant website one day when I was looking for some information on the net about Norman Walsh.
Of course there was an entry in the WH line and I followed it looking at other wrestlers that I had seen.
I like most ,the Forum and use the A-Z often, and read all of the items on my computer.
I ,probably like many others, am amazed at the amount of work put in by the Riot Squad.
Thank you to all contributors.
I found the website when I googled some of the wrestlers I watched on television and it came up. I only remembered a few of the big names but it has reminded me of others and most of them I've never heard of. The A-Z is amazing but the years of wrestling is the best part.