This is a bit of a long shot. Will need an independent fan, but we do have a few around.
In the second half of the 1960s I watched a wrestler called Duncan McRobert. I saw him at least twice, and if memory is correct one of the times was against Hayestacks Ed Bright.
So my recollection of Duncan McRobert was a leotarded heavyweight. Then a few years back Eddie Rose said no, that Duncan McRobert only weighed around 12 stones. I was surprised to say the least, but Eddie knows best so I thought I must have been mistaken, or that the dastardly indie promoter had slipped in a different Duncan in the way those indies did on occasions. To add to the confusion I've also seen advertsied a Duncan Roberts who was said to be a bantamweight or flyweight! He must be someone different again.
So I'm left with a 12 stone Duncan McRoberts and a heavyweight figment of my imagination.
Until Ron added the Nantwich album.Look who's cropped up here. All 20 stones of him.
So does anyone know of Duncan McRobert? How big was he?
Thanks Ron. Wow, this makes Pete Lapaque's career length almost 40 years.
If he started in 1958 (unless anything earlier crops up at some point), and he was wrestling in 1996, that is pretty good going. I would guess he was a real youngster when he started, say 16-18 years of age?, which pushes him towards his mid 50's when he was winding down.
I think it is him Sax and I can knock another 18 months off and it's another Jack Taylor Promotion so I think a good proof.
Is that poster above, the earliest sighting of Pete Lapaque, as Pierre La Tour?, or did anyone else in the Jack Taylor stable of wrestlers use that name as well?
Here is the lighter guy , without the Mac in his name.
Nice one MM, I have a programme with him on the cover, but I don't think he makes it to the bill on the back.
Hey, look what Main Mask has uncovered. Here's Duncan Robert. He's definitely not the heavyweight Duncan McRobert I saw and Ron has found.
So now we know we have a Duncan Robert and a Duncan McRobert. It remains open whether Eddie is right about a lighter Duncan McRobert, or he's thinking of Duncan Robert.
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O K you gents.
Tell me who was playing The Ghoul on Independents in 1964. Please !
Blinking promoters !
To confuse matters further, I recall an Eddie Mc.Roberts who worked some shows for Jack Cassidy and Brian Dixon in the early seventies, Cassidy tending to use him as a wrestler and Dixon as a referee. He had a rather unstable girlfriend and I recall vaguely a bout I attended at The Houldsworth Hall in Manchester in which he and his partner were facing a masked tag team and Mc.Roberts was taking a real beating. His girlfriend became quite hysterical and tried to get into the ring to save him. She was beside herself and it was not part of the show.
I don't recall a Scottish heavyweight called Duncan Mc.Roberts. In my days of watching the three big names were Ian Campbell, Jock Cameron and Wild Angus. And, although I never saw him, Robert Bruce. On the independent side we had Jock Sinclair and Fergus Cameron. Martin Conroy briefly featured West Bromwich mid-heavyweight Jock Mc.Gregor on a few bills.
Interesting to see the old Civic Hall, Nantwich, bill several years before I tried my hand at promoting there.
That top bill throws up the possibility of a Cowboy v Indian bout.
I wonder if they followed it through?
Thanks Ron. It's good to know I'm not completely bonkers.
I have him also 5 years earlier in 1964 , clearly a big man , and the common factor .....Jack Cassidy. Maybe he dreamed the name up from time to time.
Drew would have been around 14, so its very unlikely
Might this have been a very young Drew McDonald?