1974. Dale Martin Promotions so a respectable night out in Hastings
The following year respectability with jangling necklaces down in Kensington
Whilst in Spalding (1964) fewer jewels, probably a bit less respectability but a whole lot of fun from Jack Taylor.
For the final time for a while (I have been researching overseas results for "on this day", every day, for the last 12 months, will chip in with more, but maybe not every day), wrestling overseas today, the one and only, Billy Robinson, defeated Alex the Butcher, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on this day in 1970.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1972:-
Catweazle v Alf Marquette
Pete Curry v Count Bartelli
Roy & Tony St Clair v Honeyboy Zimba & Johnny Kincaid
Here's the programme for the bill at the top of the thread:
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Well, here's where I was on this night in 1971, up in the balcony at Saul Street Baths in Preston.
Joyce and Charles was a really good match, advertised as the light heavyweight title eliminator. Don't know what happened to the other eliminator(s) because a few weeks later Billy and Tony repeated it up the road in Blackburn with the title at stake. Good matches, unsatisfactory matchmaking.
I remember Los Vaqueros made a dramatic entrance in their colourful costumes but not a lot else.
A bit lazy to put "Japanese Star" under Tanaka's name, and then "Another Japanese Star" under Yagi's name!
As Main Mask says "The Two Originals" .... only in wrestling!
Got to be one of the worst threads for spellings and things.
Poor Hiroshi Yagi gets to be called "Another Japanese star".
Happy memories of that night in Hastings. It was the night I got McManus to autograph in a personalized way his colour photo on the front of a The Wrestler magazine. I had to stalk my prey but got him as he left with Robby. This also showed that he didn't drive Logan, who was left to slum it in the van with all the rest.
Always a very plush show at the White Rock, with Prince McBride on the organ, uniformed usherettes who tried to ensure you didn't pay 45p and then slither your way into the 65ps, and someone who really knew what they were doing with the spotlights. A fully ten feet drop this side of the stage, the wrestlers were well aware of it, though I do remember Roach and Nagasaki getting stuck for over 5 minutes unsure how to escape believably from an imminent fall.
Today's overseas traveler is our own "Wonder Boy" Steve Wright, who wrestled for the New Japan promotion on this day in 1975, taking on well known heavyweight, Strong Kobayashi in Fukushima. Kobayashi came out on top.
On our TV screens on this day, in 1966, from Bermondsey Baths, London
Heavyweight: Rikki Starr (US) (W) v Alf Cadman (Bury, Lancs)
Catchweight: Jim Breaks (Bradford) (W) v Leon Fortuna (Tonga)
Heavyweight: Tony Ford (or Orford) (Bradford) (W) v Ezzard Hart (Barbados)