On This Day 24th July

Sure looks like my my Cheltenham is wrong, albeit based on fact ☺

We get there together.

Three-minute rounds and two return bouts?

Wrestling overseas, on this day, our own Wayne Bridges was held to a time limit draw with Mike Webster, in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, on this day in 1974.

On our TV screens, on this day in 1968: -

Honeyboy Zimba (KO) v Les Kellett

Jackie Pallo (DQ) v Clay Thomson

Best atmosphere ever this night in 1973 at the far end of a jam-packed Hastings Pier:

OMG I used to get there early to have Programme Number 004!!!

Can't find the programme just now, here somewhere in the sprawl

Noticeable how, even in Double Main Events, McManus always had his name above Pallo's.

I was there but am struggling to remember John Hart. Was he blond and curly-haired? Help anyone?

Sticking with Margate, Alan Garfield suffered a rare 1963 loss to Ray Appollon.

I've located a stonking 1965 bill in Cheltenham:

Arras and Kellett perhaps in the early days of honing their routines.

Gordie strangely wreslting maskless against Czeslaw. What was THAT all about?

Maybe they didn't want too many masks with Zebra Kid topping the bill against Billy Joyce?

And Cowboy Cassidy broke away from his Dale Martin coastal tour to face JIm Hussey - surely not in the curtain-raiser?

In 1972, The Toffs took on The Mitchells in Scarborough.

And also a beauty from Bolton.