All Star have cancelled two shows for this year at Fairfield Hall and the remainder of the schedule is confined to Easter and other school holidays.Most of the traditional venues are missing
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All Star was good in Dudley - Jack Starz won the clean match for us oldies (I forget who the opponent was but I've got it written down at home). Oliver Grey (Joel Redman) has regained the Superslam title from New Zealander Niwa earlier this year and defeated him in a return match in the main event. James Mason has also come out of retirement (last year he was only there to rent out the ring) and teaming with Little Legs (who has also been on Rumble shows.)
Have bought a ticket to Dudley for Fri 21st Oct
October's bill at Epsom
Hanley not included even though there was a decent turn out last January.Leamington Spa seems to have gone for ever
Just to reassure the worried:
Rex was the one I was comparing to Czeslaw (and Alan Dennison) - a skilled blue eye with an obstruperouly comic personality. He compares to blue-eye Dennison on his ability to acknowledge a younger opponent who can beat him (the root of Dennison's friendship with Dynamite Kid - and hence his later mentoring of Davey Boy and hence feud with Jim Breaks).
Both Rex Armstrong and George Lydon are considerably better wrestlers than Johnny Czeslaw.Lydon was in a match in Shirley at the weekend.Not sure he is really from Poland.Some things never change
Talking of Rumble, they recently had the second best match so far of their YT TV show (after Nino Bryant vs Lewis Mayhew to crown a new British Lightweight champion last year). I watched it last night and enjoyed it so much I watched it again over breakfast this morning: Rex Armstrong vs George Lydon. Armstrong is a real revelation, a mixture of Johnny Czeslaw and blue-eye era Alan Dennison. Despite losing the match he is the star here. Lydon is a promising kid and hopefully will get a shot at Nino soon.
All Star traditionally slows down on the house show schedule as the warmer weather approaches and then goes off to the holiday camps. This is how they've done it for some years and it's arguably a relic of the past when British wrestlers would tour all the boarded over for winter swimming pools September-March and then head off to Hanover, Graz, Vienna and Athens for summer tournaments over the middle months of the year. Even ITV used to go on sabbatical in those months for a while unti World Of Sport came along in the mid 60s.
Croydon (and St Albans and Bedford) got postponed "due to events beyond our control." I believe the plan is to reschedule all three.
All Star have had a tag title change this month - The Riot Squad (Vito Peru and Caden Lay, not Fit Finlay and Skull Murphy) beat Oliver Gray and Tony Spitfire for the belts in Epsom on 5th April.
Rumble Promotions seems to be going strong since reopening. I've been following their Youtube channel on my Smart TV. Hopefully Nino and Tommy Lawrence will have another British Lightweight title match to show what they can really do without the whole Tate Mayfairs hair vs hair storyline butting in.
Several promotions now charging at least £20 for a ticket
Live shows in the UK at the moment are not doing well, the gap in being to put on shows due to covid has had a disastrous effect. Quite a few promotions have quietly closed up shop or downsized to smaller venues from what they used to run, its going to take a while for shows to get established again but with everyone tightening their belts a lot may just stay at home and watch whats available via tv and youtube.