There was a podcast interview with Mal Mason which was recorded just before his sad death. In one part he went into quite a lot of detail about being involved in running the camp shows with Brian - probably during the late 1970s from the references. Apparently at that time there were three teams running camp shows in different parts of the country - one headed up by Mal, one by Brian Dixon and one by Roy Bull Davis. Each team would run the camp shows - 2 or 3 on most days - as well as evening shows in nearby seaside town resorts. At the end of the week on Friday they all met up at Liverpool Stadium for a debrief and to be given the money to pay the wrestlers expense and wages for the following week. Presumably none of the camps had wrestling shows on Friday night as it was the campers last night before going home on the Saturday.
Mal Mason apparently had a caravan which he would drive down to a site somewhere in the South West and would stay there as his base for the whole 10 week summer season.
Many wrestlers today who went on the camps circuit in their early days said that there was no better training as it was the only context in which you would get to work at least three matches a day every day for 10 weeks. Brian Danielson/Daniel Bryan writes in his book that if Brian Dixon had paid enough he would quite gladly have stayed in the UK and worked on the camps for the rest of his career as it was the most fun he had every had in the wrestling business
There was a podcast interview with Mal Mason which was recorded just before his sad death. In one part he went into quite a lot of detail about being involved in running the camp shows with Brian - probably during the late 1970s from the references. Apparently at that time there were three teams running camp shows in different parts of the country - one headed up by Mal, one by Brian Dixon and one by Roy Bull Davis. Each team would run the camp shows - 2 or 3 on most days - as well as evening shows in nearby seaside town resorts. At the end of the week on Friday they all met up at Liverpool Stadium for a debrief and to be given the money to pay the wrestlers expense and wages for the following week. Presumably none of the camps had wrestling shows on Friday night as it was the campers last night before going home on the Saturday.
Mal Mason apparently had a caravan which he would drive down to a site somewhere in the South West and would stay there as his base for the whole 10 week summer season.
Many wrestlers today who went on the camps circuit in their early days said that there was no better training as it was the only context in which you would get to work at least three matches a day every day for 10 weeks. Brian Danielson/Daniel Bryan writes in his book that if Brian Dixon had paid enough he would quite gladly have stayed in the UK and worked on the camps for the rest of his career as it was the most fun he had every had in the wrestling business