I wish it was! I have a little buy to let in Birmingham (near wrestling landmark The Digbeth Civic Hall) and visit several times a year so pick up the local stories.
"Zimba in the south" ....? I was watching him in 1967, he had been active for several years previously, also in London.
Just coz he had a pub in Mcr doesn't make him a northerner.
Masambula, Kellett, Royals, Zimba, Saints, Saint, then, in modern times, Rocco and Jones ...and even Big Daddy. These guys moved about he country with stealth. Incredible job.
The one that intrigues most is Logan, as I wrote three days ago.
No great shakes in the (his?) seventies, but absolutely everywhere. A Name.
The Lord only knows how he was paid, but he made sure of MINIMUM SIX bouts a week, seemingly reaching eight or nine at times.
@adrianpollard.shangri-la I just cannot picture Keith Martinelli versus Catweazle. I can't believe that Martinelli would have been prepared to sell Catweazle's hoo-hah.
Back in 2016 a couple of weeks before what would have been Lou’s 100th birthday, I suggested over at the Wrestling Classics website, that to celebrate the milestone, the site held a week (week of his death) of posting Lou Thesz questions that they may have always wondered about, i.e. .... What was the smallest crowd he wrestled in front of...... The smallest town he ever appeared in.....The least known wrestler who held a win over Lou....
The response was sadly rather pathetic, one historian tentatively offered a suggestion, but even that was on the day of my post and no one followed up on the week of the anniversary and I couldn’t be bothered to remind them. Sheeeez!
Wrestling overseas today, Giant Haystacks defeated Spiros Arion in Bremen, Germany, on this day in 1977.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1971:-
Gwyn Davies v George Gordienko (DQ) (midweek, late night TV slot)
I wish it was! I have a little buy to let in Birmingham (near wrestling landmark The Digbeth Civic Hall) and visit several times a year so pick up the local stories.
Rather than Galaland, I believe that Edgbaston Reservoir is these days very much dogging land
1980. Wake me up when it's over.
Yes Anglo, those northerners sure did travel.
"Zimba in the south" ....? I was watching him in 1967, he had been active for several years previously, also in London.
Just coz he had a pub in Mcr doesn't make him a northerner.
Masambula, Kellett, Royals, Zimba, Saints, Saint, then, in modern times, Rocco and Jones ...and even Big Daddy. These guys moved about he country with stealth. Incredible job.
The one that intrigues most is Logan, as I wrote three days ago.
No great shakes in the (his?) seventies, but absolutely everywhere. A Name.
The Lord only knows how he was paid, but he made sure of MINIMUM SIX bouts a week, seemingly reaching eight or nine at times.
Back in 2016 a couple of weeks before what would have been Lou’s 100th birthday, I suggested over at the Wrestling Classics website, that to celebrate the milestone, the site held a week (week of his death) of posting Lou Thesz questions that they may have always wondered about, i.e. .... What was the smallest crowd he wrestled in front of...... The smallest town he ever appeared in.....The least known wrestler who held a win over Lou....
The response was sadly rather pathetic, one historian tentatively offered a suggestion, but even that was on the day of my post and no one followed up on the week of the anniversary and I couldn’t be bothered to remind them. Sheeeez!
Wrestling overseas on this day in history, our own Dynamite Kid beat Bruce Hart, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on this day in 1979.
On our TV screens on this day in 1962: -
Alan Colbeck v Vic Faulkner
John Foley v Roy St Clair
Ezzard Hurt v Bob Graham
Ray Leslie v Bob Steele