In the Eric Wilson thread question posed about arrangements.Nearly always done by letter sometimes protracted .Arthur Green did a fair bit of travel to book talent and attended co promoters meetings with other alliance reps.Martin Conroy had good connections with the Spanish promoters and arranged for me to wrestle over there funnily enough at the same time Arthur had sent some lads over and Dales also indepently so the likes of me Nagasaki and old Jackie were over at the same time.French and Belgian work came usually through Dales,the two Yorkshire promoters had close links with the German tourney promoters.Relations with the French was a bit cool until Lincoln sold out.Ted Berisford was highly regarded by the South American guys.When the old guard retired the links died with them wages were poorer by then one Columbian laughedt what was offered and wouldn't deal with anyone when Morrel went.
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Thanks for the explanation
They were allowed in as an entertainment group, not professional sport, and only included wrestlers they had taken over.
Very unusual to have Professional Wrestling in the old Soviet Block
3rd from the right i think is Arthur Wright and left of Arthur Green i think is Bill Best.
It's a great photo for Spot the Promoter.
I'll add Geo. del Rel behind Arthur's head.
The Angel Gabriel figure in the middle would be Ted Beresford.
Now it gets more interesting...
Flanking Ted's elbows we have Dale and Martin respectively.
On the photo, Norman Morrell is the 3rd from the left in the front row.
He is the only promoter that I met and spoke to.
Thank you for this information Paul. Your last sentence pretty much confirms my suspicions on the lack of international talent once the older promoters got out of the day to day running.
I have a better picture of this somewhere, but here are all the European Promoters, including Arthur Green, meeting in Brussels, in 1960.
Great stuff, thanks. I think it was Norman Morrell who organized the first main tour of our lads to Japan in the late 60's, which I think came of word of mouth (over there) from Karl Gotch, when the Japanese promoters were impressed with his wrestling skills and asked him if he knew of any other wrestlers who were as skillful as him.