I swear I am NOT making this up. One day travelling to Manchester in the mid seventies as the bus was stationary I saw a wrestling poster advertised, a welterweight contest. Do not remember who is opponent was....what intrigued me was it described Eddie Rose as the Jewish champion. Nothing wrong with that except I had never seen a wrestler defined by his religion?
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I remember Jo Anne Worley on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" singing "Hava Nagila, hav two Nagila, hav three Nagila, they're very small."
When Mickey Gold wrestled for me I always introduced him as the Jewish champion. Copying TV names at the time was often done on the independent shows and I was one of many promoters in the seventies who billed Tony Francis as "Black" Jack Milligan (a memory he didn't seem to appreciate) but Mickey Gold, who was usually game for anything, drew the line when I suggested capitalising on his dropkick ability and billing him as "The Dynamite Yid".