ON THIS DAY-26TH JUNE!!

I remember 'phoning Buddy Ward back in the seventies and we talked for a while at cross purposes; me wanting to hire him as a wrestler and he thinking I wanted to hire a show featuring some of the strippers he was managing at the time. When I asked him if he could "do his Quasimodo" the penny dropped as did his interest level. I believe he did a very good hunchback although I never saw it and it would make sense for it to be he in the poster; brother versus brother.

He never did wrestle for me and was no great tactician but he had a powerful presence. For a short while he was "blue eye" as "Kojak" Buddy Ward entering the ring sucking a lollipop (he may have handed some out to children in the audience as he approached the ring but my memory is hazy). I recall an excellent bout which he had for Orig Williams at Rhyl Town Hall where he was blue-eye Kojak against a villainous "Bad Boy" Steve Young.

It's two-for-the-price-of-one, wrestling overseas today, as the one and only Adrian Street Esq., beat Robbie Stewart (Chic Cullen) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on this day in 1981.

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

Tony Charles (W) v Al Hayes

Alan Miquet (W) v Eddie Capelli

No they aren't the same Powerlock.

I apologise I mixed up Dennis Lord with Tony Lord, but were they the same wrestler?

I doubt that the Hunchback was Quasimodo. Could have been Danny Flynn, who did play the part. Not sure but I think Brians brother, Buddy, also did.

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And the trophy photo must be one of the most used in wrestling.

Another Shoreditch bill in 1968

Tony Lord comes on here occasionally, I think he was a lightweight or welterweight, after an injury he became a promoter, but some of the North East based wrestlers can probably add a lot more information.