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MASKS AND MEMORIES-THE GREEN ASP!!

in Memories of the Old Days

As Most of you know my 'Pet Love' within BRITISH Professional Wrestling is Career

MASKED Wrestlers!-Very Very few were good enough to enjoy Long Unbeaten Runs!

One such Who began Appearing in Our Rings in the Late 1930's was GREEN ASP!

An 'Odd' Choice for a MASKED Man's Ring Persona you might think-but the Athlete

Hidden under the COWL of the ASP was a Very Very Good Wrestler indeed!

GREEN ASP was around for at least 12 Years between 1938-1950!

To my own Knowledge his only Recorded Defeat was in JANUARY 1940 when he came

a cropper in a MASK vs. MASK Contest against my Top Favourite-pre BARTELLI-

BLUE MASK!!- However in those Days of little Communication-only Months later GREEN

ASP was back again in Shades of a Future Top Masked Man-ZEBRA KID-Who was

UNMASKED several Times in this Country-but still continued to Wear his ZEBRA STRIPED

MASK and No-One seemed to mind-in an apparent 'Flouting' of the Rule that when a

MASKED Wrestler was Beaten he had to Lose his HOOD Permanently!!

Below I Share some Rare Bills Featuring GREEN ASP Who was an Important Persona

In Wrestling Pantheon of Career MASKED MEN!!

Here he is as 'Team Captain'-Weighing 200 lbs?? in a Tournament at WINTER GARDENS

just Days before the Outbreak of WW2!!

MAIN MASK

11 comments

11 Comments

RON HISTORYO....Time Cop,

Jun 02

Van Wurden goes back a long way. A real Pro.

And I can only imagine that The Green Asp had an imposter in the costume from time to time.

They were certainly having a laugh at the fans

Edited

Hack

Jun 01

The Green Asp had been unmasked in 1940 to reveal the features of Canadian Carl Van Wurden. Such trivialities didn't prevent the Green Asp name continuing on the bills through the 1940s. On 4th August, 1942 he was beaten by Bert Assirati at the Parr Hall in Warrington, a Jack Cullen show. The newspaper reported the unmasking and said "He was not however recognised by any of the large crowd."