On This Day-24TH MAY at READING's TOWN HALL-We See a 'Sensational' DOUBLE MAIN
EVENT-Both Starring...Yes you've Guessed it!... Those ROYAL Brothers!!
BERT Faces GOLDBELT MAXINE!- While Another HUGE Weight 'Disparity' CATCHWEIGHT
Contest between VIC FAULKNER-Circa 11 Stone 10 Pounds- and 16 Stone+ or so DAVE 'SOUL
BROTHER' BOND!!- About 5!!!!! Stone Difference There Then!!- Ridiculous Match-Making!!
Putting a WELTERWEIGHT against a HEAVYWEIGHT!! ++
MYERS Outweighs SAINT....AND....CZESLAW Outweighs CATWEAZLE!!
What the Hell is Going-On??- As ARNIE would Say!!
MAIN MASK
On the Spitfire Fund programme, would I be right in thinking that one of the bouts was Jack Cunningham v Joe Hill ?
DFM.... Distinguished flying medal? True or figment of promoter's imagination?
Wrestlng overseas today, Les Thornton teamed up with Nick Kozak and Ricky Romero, defeating Johnny and Don Fargo, who teamed with Mr. X, in Amarillo, Texas, on this day in 1973.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1972:-
Johnny Saint v Zolton Boscik (RSF)
Vic Faulkner (W) v Alan Colbeck
24 May 1941
George Broadfield unmasked The Black Mask
The Newsletter
On this day in 1991 the death of Baron Von Heczy.
Like so many overseas visitors to Britain Baron Ladislaus Von Heczy arrived on our shores with great promise, a powerful heavyweight who had claimed many overseas titles including Heavyweight Champion of Australia, a title he held after beating George Pencheff in 1957 until losing it to Kangaroo Kennedy in 1962. Oh, and the promoters also threw in a bit of descent from Austro-Hungarian nobility. The reality was an eighteen stone six foot plus villain who displayed little skill en route to the seemingly inevitable disqualification against the domestic opposition Ray Apollon, Georges Gordienk, Johnny Allan, Joe Cornelius and Dave Armstrong amongst them. There were the occasional exceptions and we have records of wins over Gwyn Davies and Mike Marino. Von Heczy was an Australian citizen who was born in Hungary, and visited Britain between June and September 1961.
It's another two-for-the-price-of-one with our lads wrestling overseas today, as Les Thornton and Mark Rocco (as Black Tiger), beat Isamu Teranishi and Animal Hamaguchi, in a tag match in Kyoto, Japan, on this day in 1982.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1969: -
Jean Ferre (KO) v Jim Hussey
Ray Fury (KO) Ivan Penzekoff
Bob Kirkwood (W) Terry Rudge