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MASKS AND MEMORIES-DOCTOR DEATH VS.KAMIKAZE!!

in Memories of the Old Days

I've always Loved Meaningful MASK versus MASK Contests!-It didn't happen very often but just

Occasionally 2 Hooded Wrestlers found Themselves in Opposite Corners!!-Then usually One of

them had to go!

I've always had a Sneaking Admiration for (The Original) DOCTOR DEATH!-He was Involved in

Some Epic Contests with the MASK on the line!-The Legendary Contest in APRIL 1962 against

WHITE ANGEL-when Evil Triumphed Over Good!-The Classic Battle of The 2 DOCTORS when

DD Defeated and Unmasked DOCTOR BLOOD to Name but Two!!

But there were Others as well!

In The Early 1960's PAUL LINCOLN Brought Over a Masked Terror who had been Raising the

Ire of Crowds in PARIS....The JAPANESE 'Suicide Pilot'-KAMIKAZE!

So it seemed Inevitable That he would Come into Conflict with The Good DOCTOR!

And he did!

At GRANADA TOOTING-Scene of his Victory Over WHITE ANGEL-This Collision was going

to come about! The Date:- WEDNESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 1963!

Another Sell-Out LINCOLN Spectacular with 1000's Packing into The Luxury TOOTING

GRANADA!-Fabulous Nites in BRITISH Wrestling Golden Years!

A 'Fight to a Finish'!!

Does Anyone Know Who was beneath KAMIKAZE's Mask then??

MAIN MASK

15 comments

15 Comments

Hack

Mar 24

Are there any references to Modesto Aledo working as Kamikaze in the UK? There are references to him working and being unmasked in Spain. wrestlingdata.com does list him as a Kamikaze, which is correct, and mentions a couple of UK matches, but they are around matches in Spain.

The Ost

Mar 24

Using that particular mask was Modesto Aledo and Bob Anthony. You'd have to track where either one was. Obviously, a bit of a height difference too.

Anglo Italian

Mar 24

Graham is with us!!!

Quite how you can pin down the “correct” anglicized spelling of Kamikaze defeats me.

I bow to the divinity of your wind (but not too low.)

Relwyskow went into meltdown trying to spell anything from Walls to Shakkaks.

Once again wrestling led the way and sixties icon Geo Del Rel wrote like a man who, decades early, had problems with predictive text

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Anglo Italian

Mar 24

I think Ian Gilmour was a Kamikaze, too. But the Lincoln version at that time was indeed Modesto Aledo.

grahambrookjazz

Mar 24

Replying to

My Kamikaze was Al Miquet ( who also wrestled as himself, as Kung Fu, refereed and put up the ring - but not all on the same night! Although there was one night at The Parr Hall in Warrington where he put up the ring for me then proceeded to wrestle in all three guises. I did the refereeing).

adrianpollard.shangri-la

Mar 24

Replying to

As a Point of Distinction Dear ANGLO-You'll Note That Later Incarnations Spelled

This Ring Monicker KAM A KAZE!

The Original -ALEDO- Spelled it in The Correct JAPANESE Way-

KAM I KAZE which of course means DIVINE WIND!!

j_shelvey

Mar 23

I lived for a while in Tooting, in the 70s, alas too late for the Grenada shows. Missed opportunities. (Talking to Frank Hurley decades later, I found out that I had lived just around the corner to where he based himself in the U.K., albeit well before the 70s). On the other hand, walking out of my flat one morning, on hearing chatter behind me, I turned and there was Clive Lloyd and a couple of other Lancashire cricketers, coming out of a house two doors away. So that was nice!

Anglo Italian

Mar 24

Replying to

I went to the Tooting Granada shows, John, I went to school a hundred yards away. Even though we elevate it to a major venue now, little me was not happy at the time as the ring was on the stage and not surrounded by seating as on tv.

Just analysing my dissatisfaction....being on a stage made it staged. And boxing matches were never on a stage. So I wasn't far off the mark.

j_shelvey

Mar 25

Replying to

Likewise Anglo, the Southall card our family attended, a week or so before emigrating, was set on a stage and I’ve seen them in Aus. as well. I’m pretty sure one of the shows visited in Japan was also ‘staged’.

A bit like playing football in the park as a kid and being miffed if there were no goal posts and also being peeved off, if there were, but they didn’t have nets.

I know, jumpers for goal posts were the norm, nearly everywhere then!

Anglo Italian

Mar 22

Just love seeing Kamikaze billed as a former suicide pilot. Clearly not a very successful one.

j_shelvey

Mar 23

Replying to

But I’m sure he went down in a ‘blaze of glory’ against the D.D.

RON HISTORYO....Time Cop,

Mar 22

Eddie Stratton.....see A-z and there were plenty of Copies.

adrianpollard.shangri-la

Mar 22

Replying to

My Info says MODESTO ALEDO RON!!

RON HISTORYO....Time Cop,

Mar 22

Replying to

Maybe because the A-Z cites the following year at Edmonton.

In March 1964 the middleweight Kamikaze gave away over a stone in weight when he tried unsuccessfully to defeat and unmask the villainous Doctor Death at the Edmonton Granada Cinema. Regular under the mask for the 1960s independents was Eddie Stratton. Eddie was the real deal as far as the martial arts were concerned. He was a British aikido teacher and the founder of Yoshinkan UK, and the Shudokan Institute of Aikido International.

Hack

Mar 23

Replying to

The A-Z does agree that Modesto Aledo was a Kamikaze also, but there were others