Graham Brook posted this six years back. Where have you gone Graham? We miss you.
grahambrookjazz
Dec 21, 2018
I forget with whom I partnered Ezra but I promoted a tag match in 1976 at The Parr Hall in Warrington which saw Ezra (whom I promoted on this occasion as The Witchdoctor entering the ring in grass skirt with a stick with a skull at the top of it and all that nonsense) and partner face Lincolnshire Poachers Bill and Rick Clarke (Rick Wiseman). My then friend Stuart "Big Boy" Miller was referee. During the course of the match Witchdoctor "hypnotised" Bill Clarke pointing to referee Miller and a humorous interlude occurred which saw Clarke chasing Miller around the ring. The interlude concluded when Miller slapped Clarke across the face bringing him out of the trance. "Referee....he's using voodoo," complained Clarke but Miller just signalled for him to wrestle on.
I copied the idea (nothing in my promotions was ever original) not from Nagasaki but from Masambula. I recall Miller not wanting to do it claiming that it would stretch the boundaries of credibility too far but I recall the punters thoroughly enjoying the interlude.
Graham Brook posted this six years back. Where have you gone Graham? We miss you.
grahambrookjazz
Dec 21, 2018
I forget with whom I partnered Ezra but I promoted a tag match in 1976 at The Parr Hall in Warrington which saw Ezra (whom I promoted on this occasion as The Witchdoctor entering the ring in grass skirt with a stick with a skull at the top of it and all that nonsense) and partner face Lincolnshire Poachers Bill and Rick Clarke (Rick Wiseman). My then friend Stuart "Big Boy" Miller was referee. During the course of the match Witchdoctor "hypnotised" Bill Clarke pointing to referee Miller and a humorous interlude occurred which saw Clarke chasing Miller around the ring. The interlude concluded when Miller slapped Clarke across the face bringing him out of the trance. "Referee....he's using voodoo," complained Clarke but Miller just signalled for him to wrestle on.
I copied the idea (nothing in my promotions was ever original) not from Nagasaki but from Masambula. I recall Miller not wanting to do it claiming that it would stretch the boundaries of credibility too far but I recall the punters thoroughly enjoying the interlude.
Would it have been Ezra who was the Zulu appearing at Liverpool Stadium for Brian Dixon in 1978?
The Zulu was one of the finalists for the vacant World Middleweight Championship (the title Adrian Street had been stripped of) in May 1978
Great Gimmick