19th September.
One hundred years ago today, the birth of Jack Cheers.
A hard and skilful wrestler (because he was from Riley's gym) but one of the lesser known men from Wigan. A railway man by day Jack was quite late in life when he took up wrestling, turning professional when he was around 30 years old. He wrestled professionally from the early 1950s until 1968 in the halls and on Matt Moran's Fairground Booth. He had a reputation for being a very difficult opponent as it seemed to Jack that fans should get what they thought they saw. In other words, when it looked like it was hurting, it was!
Jack Cheers was born on 19th September, 1922 and died in 2006.
1959 and not your regular names on this one:
Ron's Neath show was one of those independent shows that damaged the reputation of British wrestling. Most regular readers will have noticed these wrestlers were not appearing on the show but had been sent an invitation to appear.
There was no chance that Wall, Davies, Street or McManus would be there. Sean Ryan and Bill Kennedy lived in the Isle of Man and I interviewed them around 1970 or 1971 along with other Manx wrestlers Phil Barry and Harry Bison.