Linda Lovelace

It was interesting to see one of my newspaper advertisements from 1977 for my show in Nantwich but I had booked Jack Taylor and two girls from Leicester and they did not show up. I remember Lee Sharron saying that Taylor probably did it hoping to kill my dreams of being a promoter and that he probably never even told the two girls that they had a booking. Taylor was careful with his money so the two girls, although the top of the bill attraction, were actually the lowest paid on the bill. So here I was with everyone looking forward to girls appearing for the first time at Nantwich but no girls in the dressing room. I told the punters that they had not arrived but was hoping that they would show up as the show progressed and started with a tag match which saw Ken Else paired with Ian Wilson against the team of Marcel Carpentier and Mark Wayne. Next I put on Bobby Barron versus Lee Sharron and asked them to do eight cats as I genuinely hoped that Taylor and the girls would show up. They didn't quite do as I asked with Sharron dropping Barron testicles first onto the top rope in the seventh which led to his disqualification. I recall both saying that it was the longest bout they had worked in a while. After the interval I put on Steve Kennedy versus Johnny Vicious (Johnny Palin versus Rick Wiseman) then had to announce to the audience that there were no girls. I held aloft some notes claiming that it represented the girls' wages and that Else, Wilson, Carpentier, Wayne, Vicious and Kennedy would take part in a six man over the top rope Battle Royal for the cash. All credit to Sharron for coming up with the idea. It was something the punters had not seen before and it went down really well, handsome Steve Kennedy emerging as the winner. Luckily for me the crowd went home happy but the manager of the hall was far from happy and it was obvious she thought that I rather than Taylor had tried to pull a stunt so cancelled my future bookings.