For Just Over 2 Years The Promoters had Installed GWYN DAVIES as The BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT
Champion!-But by 1977 DAVIES was getting a bit 'Long in the Tooth'- had Suffered 'Niggling' Injuries
and had Many Business Commitments!-This Effectively Rendered GWYN a Part-Time Champion!
So a Younger/Popular Man was 'Pushed' to Replace DAVIES as The 'King' of The Heavyweights-
TONY ST. CLAIR-It was 'Engineered' That TONY would 'Relieve' GWYN of The Belt by a D.Q.
Route!
The WELSHMAN was Never to Regain his Title!!
Thus The New Champion at Only 15 1/2 Stone would have to Defend his Newly 'Won' Honours
against Much Bigger and Heavier Challengers!!
Indeed at One Point He Lost the Belt to GIANT HAYSTAX!!
But in Reality could he Really Defeat Huge Opponents??
One of These was MAL KIRK-easily Over 20 Stone!
Below TONY Takes him On for The Title at CIVIC HALL in WOLVERHAMPTON in 1978!
I Have One of These Matches on DVD-and I'm Confident That The Title Contest Ended with the
Same Result as Happened in My DVD Match......a KIRK Disqualification!!
MAL had the Strength of an Ox+ a Huge 'Bulk'!-Could TONY Really have withstood All This???
Who saw These 2 Fight Live Then?
MM
Davies made a great contribution , had been wrestling since 1952 , long before Albert Wall and Bill Robinson. Understandable that he would be fading by 1977.
Another Wolves show I attended
Often repeated in the European tournaments
I had a lot of respect for Mal Kirk when he came on the scene in the 1960's. Here we had a giant villain who could actually wrestle and was therefore saddened when in the early 1970's at Morecambe Winter Gardens he was forced into undergoing early KO's by both Les Kellett and Rikki Starr, both of whom would have struggled against him in a shoot match.
I doubt whether Tony StClair would have had the beating of him either.
He deserved better.
I read once in a wrestling fanzine, that had some results from Ray Plunkett, that Tony St Clair won this title bout at Wolverhampton by a stoppage. I don't know what happened, maybe Mal Kirk was cut?
"But in Reality could he Really Defeat Huge Opponents??
One of These was MAL KIRK-easily Over 20 Stone!" If he could shoot and they couldn't, he would have them submitting in seconds.
Nobody knows what the booking plans were for the StClair/Kendo title match had it gone ahead. Even Tony says he doesn't remember.
I still think the plan was for Kendo to win the belt but lose it back on a DQ and that Stax was a replacement for him.
"International Heavyweight Contest of Significance." Unique drivel.