This list arises from James' and Main Mask's nominations of the first two elsewhere. I have added a couple but I believe this will be tough. It's the wrestlers' principal ring names we need here.
Monsieur Montréal
Klondikes...Bill, Kate, Jake
Johnny England
Mississippi Mauler
Leon Arras
Eric Leyland (guess who's scraping his barrel again...)
Isha Israel
Boston Blackie
Yorkshire Kid (Hack knows a wrestler ...)
Roy & Tony St. Clair
The South London Tough Guys
The Liverpool Skinheads (Terry O'Neill becomes the first two appear three times on these lists.
Jack London,
The Wild Man of Borneo
The Lincolnshire Poachers
Le Bourreau de Béthune
Mike Dallas
Alaskan Tasker
The Bengal Tigers
Kendo Nagasaki
The Hungarian Horsemen
The Magnificent Magyars
Belfast Bruiser
Kansas City Bomber
The Hellenes
The Wiganers
Texas Jack Bence
Catalina George Drake
Kilkenny Cat
Mongolian Mauler
Under Review
Wild Angus (waiting for Hack to elaborate)
Kent Walton (Walton le Dale) - a wrestler?
The following subsidiary list will yield a lot more, I'm sure:
Wrestlers' Geographical Bylines
The Polish Eagle (Johnny Czeslaw & Vladimir Waldberg,)
The Butcher of Budapest (Josef Kovacs)
The Dulwich Destroyer (McManus)
The Yorkshire Farmer (Kellett)
The African Witchdoctor (Masambula)
The Chicago Express (Tornado Torontos)
The Doncaster Panther (Jack Pye)
The Scourge of the East (Ahmet Chong)
The Terror from the North (Klondyke Jake: from Devon!)
The Portsmouth Adonis (Bob Kirkwood)
The Hampshire Farmer (John Kowalski)
The Welsh Wizard (Tony Charles)
The Cockney Kid (Tony Scarlo et al.)
The Russian Lion (Hackenschmidt)
The Terrible Turk (Ahmed Madrali)
The Walthamstow Bear (John Elijah)
Giant El Paso Cowboy (Ski Hi Lee)
As usual, all must have wrestled in the UK.
Any more?
Coincidentals
We are really looking for wrestlers who creatively chose in some way their geographical epithets. Some, listed here, just happened to have surnames that were also places:
Jack Atherton
Bernard Bradford
Peter Preston
Derek Oldham
Alf Kent
Alec Burton
Roger Wells
Paul Lincoln
John Lees
Judo Al Hayes
Tom Nelson
Bruno Elrington
Bert Mansfield
Flash Jordan
Chesterfield Smith
Blackburn Roberts
Bill Stirling
Always Happy to Help OSTY!!
MM
Nice one MM, i've seen Kilkenny Cat on lots of results but never on a poster.
Mansfield was not the birth name of any of the Mansfield family. The family name was Manterfield. Now whether Mansfield was chosen because of the town or just because it was easier we will probably never know.
Another Fantastic Addition-KILKENNY CAT-Here he is at MIDDLESBROUGH
In The 1930's!-On The Same Bill FRANK-NOT BERT!-MANSFIELD!!
Also We have RAY CRAWLEY at The ALEXANDRA THEATRE down in
ILFRACOMBE!!
Last-but Not Least-The MONGOLIAN MAULER Complete with Image-
Appearing at The PRINCES THEATRE in CLACTON!
MAIN MASK
"Catalina" George Drake.
Texas Jack Bence.
Here's a great video of him in action. But it's great because of his opponent, Roger Delaporte. What a magnificent pantomime villain. Just like McManus, Delaporte was the promoter in Paris and here he puts his Texan import over magnificently, remonstrating about the rules before the start and instigating a tremendous brawl after the controversial result.
Sixties wrestling at its very best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wPryBHCyn0
What??-Mike's RING Name is a COUNTRY!!##??
How Much More 'Geographical' do you want???
And what's Wrong with BILL STIRLING??-A SCOTTISH City....AND
The Old Capital of SCOTLAND!!##!!
MM
Vladimir Waldberg, aka Fred Rondel, an early 'Polish Eagle'
American Dream Machine, Yukon Eric, Detroit Donovan
These are all coincidental, then, including Flash.
Mike has nothing to do with San Marino and doesn't even qualify as a partial coincidental. You’re getting desperate!!! Try and come up with some nice Creatives. There must be loads.
Wasn't JORDAN-MIKE's OWN Surname Anglo??
MM
Just HOW?? can ANGLO have Omitted MIKE MARINO from his First
List???-Tut Tut Tut!!-SAN MARINO-Just NEXT DOOR to Himself!!##??
Also-BILL STIRLING-CHESTERFIELD SMITH and BRIAN CRAIG-RADCLIFFE!
Not Forgetting 1930's Wrestler-BERT MANSFIELD!!
MAIN MASK
Are We Adding MIKE 'FLASH' JORDAN Then ANGLO??
MM
Add Blackburn Roberts to the coincidentals. He is Tommy Blackburn. Roberts was, I think, his wife's maiden name or some other relative.
Alec Burton wasn't his family name, it was Bowen. Doesn't mean he took the name from the town though.
I belive Barry took his Douglas from Doug de Relwyskow; not an island.
So his name will not go on ze list.
Agree, Kansas City Bomber is ripper.
And Lastly ANGLO-For Now-My Favourite of The Whole Weekend!...
At SWINDON in 1986 We Have THE KANSAS CITY BOMBER!!##!!!
WHAT a Cracking Name for a Girl Wrestler!!
Beat That???
She Takes-On MISS RUSTY BLAIR!
MAIN MASK
Bruno Elrington (New South Wales)
Two More ANGLO!
BELFAST BRUISER-'FIT' FINLAY
And a Really Rare Tag Team Name-The WIGANERS!! +
BARRY DOUGLAS!!+
MITZI again for ANGLO!!
MAIN MASK
I can come up with six wrestlers from three names:
The Hungarian Horsemen
The Magnificent Magyars
The Walthamstow Bear
South London Skinheads. Yes I'm more creative than either of us thought.
South London Skinheads, Hack? Don't go mangling history again...
The rules are clear, Main Mask has exploited them to the full. But I see you agree that the coincidences aren't in the spirit of this - we are tracing wrestling creativity here.
So I shall start a subsection.
Next squabble: borderline coincidence/creative. There's bound to be one. ☺☺☺
First job of the referee is to make the rules clear. Doesn't look good for this ref. Bring back Brian.
Limited to wrestlers who took their names from places would be a short list.
We can't be sure of anyone's motive but I would guess:
Monsieur Montreal
Klondykes maybe (but they were copied from the Americans)
Mississipi Mauler
Leon Arras maybe
Eric Leyland
Ischa Israel maybe
Boston Blackie
Yorkshire Kid
South London Skinheads
Liverpool Skinheads
Wildman of Borneo
Lincolnshire Poachers
Le Bourreau de Béthune
Mike Dallas
Alaskan Tiger
The Skinheads have been on the (sequential) list for some time. Other nice suggestions that make me also wonder:
Was Mike Dallas more to do with the tv series?
Lees and Jordan and Hayes and Nelson, I think we're getting into the realms of coincidence. But ok, I'll adhere to the rules. I think my intention at outset was to groups wrestlers who took their ring name from some specific place. All ok down to Peter Preston. Let's face it, would a Yorkshireman have chosen a Lancashire name?
Alaskan Tasker is a brilliant find! I can't help noticing that it will roll mellifluously off a northern tongue; but with my Southern twang I nearly choked trying to pronounce it. (I had the same problem in Australia with the fast-food chain Faster Pasta, which rhymes in 'Strine.)
The Turk and the Lion, too!
Somebody help me please with Blackjack Mulligan; didn't he have a NE byline?
2 More ANGLO!-
LEES-a Small Town near OLDHAM and
The Excellent MIKE 'FLASH' JORDAN!! +
The HILLY BILLY.....Again!!
Notice NO Venue on This Poster!#?
MM
Another couple from MMs posters, Tom Nelson and Liverpool Skinheads.
Al Hayes
An Absolute Cracker for you ANGLO!!!...From 1938!!!
I give you.....ALASKAN TASKER!!
Topping The Bill at ERDINGTON STADIUM against GOLDEN ACE!!!
Here.......
MM
More for The List ANGLO!!
MIKE DALLAS and The BENGAL TIGERS!
MM
Oldest Geographical Byline match has to be the Russian Lion v The Terrible Turk.
ANGLO!#!#-How CAN you Omit The Mighty KENDO NAGASAKI
From your Initial LIST???
Tut Tut!!
MM
A few byliners.
A wrestler I didn't enjoy: Ahmet Chong - Scourge of the East.
Klondyke Jake: Terror from the North
Bob Kirkwood: the Portsmouth Adonis.
John Kowalski: The Hampshire Farmer
Tony Charles: the Welsh Wizard
Tony Scarlo: the Cockney Kid
LE BOURREAU DE BETHUNE!!
MM
Jack London, Alf Kent, Roger Wells, Paul Lincoln, Alec Burton
Blackburn Roberts
Peter Preston, Jack Atherton, Wild Angus, Kent Walton (Walton le Dale), Bernard Bradford, Boston Blackie, Yorkshire Kid
I had hoped for a controversy-free run here, but ...
The Empress needed to have wrestled in the UK with a geographical name.
In the same way, no British Bulldog.
However, I believe Leon Arras is ok?
How about Ischa Isael? And Chi Chi Paris, who wrestled here as the Empress of the Black Dagger. And as for Bylines Jack Pye (The Doncaster Panther)
Well we've got to include the glorious Eric Turner, who also used the name Eric Leyland.
Two easy ones Anglo , Roy and Tony St Clair
St Clair a place in Cornwall.
Derek Oldham