1965 and Liverpool Stadium. They were always good bills, shared in those days by Philip Howlin, who still reads this forum. The Stadium was the only place we know that regularly used three minute rounds.
Two years later and a contrasting bill in Dudley that would have been just as much fun. Sunday shows in Dudley from Vic Kendrick. At times the Dudley shows started at 12 noon. Anyone with information about Ivor Powell. Joe Orlando or Frank Taplow?
Wrestling overseas today, Ringo Rigby defeated Great Goliath, in Los Angeles, California, USA on this day in 1982.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1966:-
The TV Trophy Lightweight Final (Jon Cortez (W) v Bernard Murray (0)
Heavyweight: Steve Veidor (W) (London) v Danny Lynch (Bradford)
Heavyweight: Masambula (Ghana) v Roy St.Clair (Cornwall)
26 March 1986
Death of Tony Ancell
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Re Sid/Syd/Norman: Couple of things I believe we previously established:
a) The "other" Norman Cooper was a somewhat heavier fellow.
b) Sid/Syd's real name is, indeed, Norman - there was a story from his post-wrestling career as a theatre porter in a London hospital where one of the staff who was going for some major surgery was insistent that "Norman was the one she wanted to wheel her into the theatre".
Might the name change be nothing more sinister than to avoid "confusion in the marketplace"?
This Cooper name is a funny business Anglo Italian. If his actual name was Norman, then why chose Sid. Sorry all Sid's out there but it's no more glamorous than Norman. And if his actual name was Sid why ever use Norman. Sorry Norman's everywhere but the same reason. In the blue corner, Dynamite Dwayne Cooper....
As for Zimba going south well I went south once. Cheshire was okay, but not somewhere you'd want to stay.
Anyway, my offering is a value for money bill with 14 wrestlers; the old fogies with the luxury of facing their favoured opponents.
Honey Boy ìs here again, might have been the best bout.
Excuse me! Honey Boy Zimba did not "stray" south.
He worked and had a pub in the north but he worked especially for Dale Martins. He clearly felt very comfortable closer to Sierra Leone.
Moving on to the wrestler who is Syd/Norman Cooper. What was going on with his sxties marketing. Was Syd more glamorous than Norman? And then we have to get our heads around the "fact" that there was another Norman Cooper. Mindblowing, this.
The end of wrestling at Preston Majestic
No Robby,Mick must have used his bus pass!!
Working overseas, on this day back in 1970 Les Thornton beat Manuel Landro in Berlin, Germany.
On our TV screens, on this day back in 1960: -
Johnny Allen v Ernie Riley
Brian Burke v Keith Williamson