On This Day-26TH JUNE at The Iconic PLAZA-TYNEMOUTH-Which Sadly Burned Down-
We See QUASIMODO-Not it Seems Billed as Such!- But Rather as The HUNCHBACK in a
'Curious' Match-Up against BRIAN MAXINE Before he became-GOLDBELT!!
Couple of Other Names On My Poster That I Hardly Know Anything about!!-
TOM BURY versus TONY LORD??
MAIN MASK
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.