Also whilst searching the Newcastle results, I came across 2 names that I thought were of interest. First one was a one off appearance on 4/8/1956 of one named Al Gutteridge.Any relation to you know who?
Secondly for Main Mask. 4 appearances in 1956 of Masked Radak.
Do who know anything of this wrestler?
You might well be right Anglo Italian. The name seemed familiar to me and I thought we'd come across him before.
I seem to recall that Radak came up when we researched the top Masked Men ten years ago and we didn't include him because he hadn't wrestled in the UK.
Do we have to re-think or am I muddled?
It's a good few years since I fully read it, but in Jackie's book (expose) "You Grunt, I'll Groan", he never mentions wrestling under any name other than Jackie Pallo.
I would have thought he would have mentioned it if that were the case.
I can't see it myself. Pallo had already been around for five years in 1955, he'd even been on at the Royal Albert Hall. Unlikely for him to then be re-invented in 1955.
Looks like the match Ron found was his debut:
"Alan Gutteridge of Portsmouth was beaten by Frankie Hughes (London) in his first professional fight. But his performance was a sound one, and the moral victory was his."
Portsmouth Evening News 15th August, 1955
Radak I have found 17 times between January and April 1957.
But he wasn't a local boy in Portsmouth.
Jackie started wrestling in the 1950s it doesn't mean he started as Jackie Pallo .
Al Gutteridge I have noticed before , but he is still a mystery. Below 1955.
could it have been an early appearance of Jackie Pallo using his own surname
Meant to say "do we know".