Wrestling overseas today, our own Judo Al Hayes (as Lord Alfred Hayes) teamed up with Roger Kirby, defending their NWA Central States Tag Team title, defeating Bob Geigel and Rufus R. Jones, in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, on this day in 1973.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1966:-
John Yearsly (Cardiff) v Billy Joyce (Wigan)
Bernard Murray (Bradford) v Julien Morice (Toulouse, France)
Johnnie Palance was probably the most hated heel at the Stadium in 1978 - 80 (before John Quinn came along). In a strange reversal of the "home town hero" phenomenon, the Stadium fans reserved some of their greatest disdain for wrestlers from Liverpool including Palance, Woody Waldo and the Liverpool Skinheads. Palance was a hard hitter who often defeated Stadium favourites like Kung Fu and Tony Borg. One of my earliest suspicions that wrestling might not have been all it seemed came when, after months of bitter battles at the Stadium, Kung Fu and Johnnie Palance wrestled a sporting contest at the Kings Hall in Aberystwyth (I was at University in the town). I couldn't understand how this could be - these two were supposed to bitterly hate each other, and yet here they were behaving like the best of friends.
I have posted previously about the work I did for Bobby Barron in the seventies refereeing at the two Pontin's camps in Prestatyn (a morning show at Tower Beach and an afternoon show at Prestatyn Sands). One of the highlights of this period was refereeing Kung Fu versus Johnny Palance. They used every inch of the ring in a fast-moving "sporting" contest which saw me keeping as close as I could to the ropes so as not to get in their way. I enjoyed the bout so much that I wanted to book it for my little group of halls around Cheshire which I was running at the time and approached Eddie in The Morville in Rhyl to ask him to work for me but unfortunately he was with a friend who threatened me for interrupting their conversation. Much as I would have liked to have promoted the bout around Alsager, Warrington, Bollington, Nantwich and the like, I was not prepared to get into a fight for the right to approach Ed so Al Miquet donned the bonnet and played Kung Fu for me and the encounter with Palance never occurred.
I saw Locke (Palance) on Orig's weekly shows at Rhyl Town Hall regularly against the likes of Pallo and Street but he was always the blue eye. In fact, I recall with great affection a hilarious tag match there which saw Palance and Hamil join forces (before his Kung Fu run) to face the team of Steve Taylor (then wrestling as Steve Mc.Cormack) and my all time favourite Joe Critchley (back in the days when he wrestled primarily as a man).
That's an outsider of four winning the tournament in Liverpool.
Not really Anglo. Steve Young and Chic Cullen weren't big names at the time, Myers was from parts unknown (i.e. south of Chester), but Johnnie Palance was well known to the Liverpool fans.
I remember a girl called Dawn Green who used to regularly frequent Idols bar on Oldham Street in Manchester. She always had a prominent place outside the gents.
14th September 1979 at Liverpool Stadium Pete Curry drew with Steve Wright in a rare appearance of the latter in UK rings. Also Johnnie Palance won a KO tournament that also included Clive Myers, Steve Young and Chic Cullen
Wrestling overseas today, our own Judo Al Hayes (as Lord Alfred Hayes) teamed up with Roger Kirby, defending their NWA Central States Tag Team title, defeating Bob Geigel and Rufus R. Jones, in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, on this day in 1973.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1966:-
John Yearsly (Cardiff) v Billy Joyce (Wigan)
Bernard Murray (Bradford) v Julien Morice (Toulouse, France)
Something did happen
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Death of Joe Critchley
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Johnnie Palance was probably the most hated heel at the Stadium in 1978 - 80 (before John Quinn came along). In a strange reversal of the "home town hero" phenomenon, the Stadium fans reserved some of their greatest disdain for wrestlers from Liverpool including Palance, Woody Waldo and the Liverpool Skinheads. Palance was a hard hitter who often defeated Stadium favourites like Kung Fu and Tony Borg. One of my earliest suspicions that wrestling might not have been all it seemed came when, after months of bitter battles at the Stadium, Kung Fu and Johnnie Palance wrestled a sporting contest at the Kings Hall in Aberystwyth (I was at University in the town). I couldn't understand how this could be - these two were supposed to bitterly hate each other, and yet here they were behaving like the best of friends.
Anglo Italian 2h
That's an outsider of four winning the tournament in Liverpool.
Not really Anglo. Steve Young and Chic Cullen weren't big names at the time, Myers was from parts unknown (i.e. south of Chester), but Johnnie Palance was well known to the Liverpool fans.
That's an outsider of four winning the tournament in Liverpool.
Wrestling overseas, on this day, the one and only Dynamite Kid defeated Joe Ventura, in Hannover, Germany, on this day in 1978.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1968: -
Honeyboy Zimba v Tony Charles (W)
Abe Ginsberg (W) v Roy St Clair
Vic Faulkner (W) v Colin Joynson
14th September 1979 at Liverpool Stadium Pete Curry drew with Steve Wright in a rare appearance of the latter in UK rings. Also Johnnie Palance won a KO tournament that also included Clive Myers, Steve Young and Chic Cullen