Further to the post re Bruno Sammartino. His autobiography includes a photo of Bruno,his wife and son David also later a wrestler being received in audience by Pope Paul VI in 1966.This led me to consider if any of the wrestlers in the A-Z ever had this honour
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He goes on to describe in his book how Vince McMahon later rather unscrupulously used the photo for publicity.Some things never change!
Love this title for a thread, Peter!
And 1966 was the year Archbishop of Canterbury Ramsey (not Alf) went "cap in hand" to his holiness in Rome. I wonder if Ramsey was in the queue behind The Living Legend?