American Luther Lindsay was born this day in 1924. He made one short but memorable visit to Britain in 1961, knocking out Mike Marino on television and a win over Josef Zaranoff at the Royal Albert Hall. Admittedly repeating myself, okay I’m not alone, I have previously mentioned that the match against Zaranoff was repeated on television, in the midlands anyway, in 1979. . The 1979 ITV strike lasted eleven weeks. Following a stretch off air ITV companies began limited transmission of old programmes. Amongst the wrestling programmes broadcast was Lindsay v Zaranoff from 1961.
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Wrestling overseas today, our own Johnny Eagles (as Johnny Marlin) beat our own Steve Clements in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, on this day in 1973.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1961:-
Majid Ackra v Jim Armstrong
Steve Logan (W) v Tommy Mann
Tony Charles (KO) v Mike Donlevy
Roy St Clair v Brian Travers