Our local lad overseas today is Wayne Bridges, who partnered with Great Malumba, on this day in 1975, beating Siegfried Steinke and Masa Saito, in tag team action, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1965: -
Tosh Togo (W) v Johnny Allan (Togo billed as Oddjob)
Johnny Kostas (1) v Arthur Ricardo (1)
Terry Nylands (1) v Andraes Swasjic (1) (billed as Andras Svajscik)
Johnny Eagles/Terry Jowett (White Eagles, billed as Eagles)) (1) v Abe Ginsberg/John Foley (Black Diamonds) (1)
A Dale Martin arch rule broken by Devers, with McGuire and Mr X appearing on consecutive bills.
Mr X had the big Devereaux push, seemed to be involved promotionally, but DMs didn't seem interested and I don't imagine he ever wrestled north of Coventry.
Our local lad overseas today is Wayne Bridges, who partnered with Great Malumba, on this day in 1975, beating Siegfried Steinke and Masa Saito, in tag team action, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1965: -
Tosh Togo (W) v Johnny Allan (Togo billed as Oddjob)
Johnny Kostas (1) v Arthur Ricardo (1)
Terry Nylands (1) v Andraes Swasjic (1) (billed as Andras Svajscik)
Johnny Eagles/Terry Jowett (White Eagles, billed as Eagles)) (1) v Abe Ginsberg/John Foley (Black Diamonds) (1)
Tony Charles and Johnny Eagles in North America
A Dale Martin arch rule broken by Devers, with McGuire and Mr X appearing on consecutive bills.
Mr X had the big Devereaux push, seemed to be involved promotionally, but DMs didn't seem interested and I don't imagine he ever wrestled north of Coventry.
Putting himself top of the bill here,
Another mini-mystery.
A good old heavyweight main event clash at the Palais in 1969.
Big Mike, the man who hospitalised the Ghoil. Here he is
Over fifty years later and ten thousand miles away from Keighley, I had a fifteen minute chat with Spike! Don’t know of Paul D. or Big Mike.
Thought you'd all appreciate this 1962 poster from Keighley. A few names here that have been discussed on the forum before: