Following on from the Austrain wrestlers question, i wondered if anyone knew whether or not Otto Wanz ever faced Germany's Roland Bock or our own Pat Roach? I thought perhaps clashes between these men may have occured during some of the european tournaments but i've drawn a blank so far in my searches.
Both Bock and Roach were roughly equal in size and would have been a match for the bulky Austrian during the 1970s.
Thank you for your posting Gernot. This bout you mention may well be the same bout that I said, in my 20th February posting on this topic, that I had read about in a British wrestling magazine. It is nice to have it confirmed from a second source, as you are never quite sure how much truth there is in the reports of overseas bouts of British wrestlers.
I have heard that Pat Roach was very highly regarded in the German and Austrian wrestling scene and it seems that he was, if he was wrestling in a bout billed as a world title qualifier, then this was the case.