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.