POSTER DATED FOR NEWSLETTER 11TH OCTOBER

Many years ago we had a thread entitled TOUGH OLD BUGGERS and Ted Heath was declared number one. Thanks to Johnny Kincaid's nomination as I recall.

I recall seeing Dennison versus Heath in the early seventies on a Crabtree promotion at The King's Hall, Belle Vue, one Saturday night. I saw them there loads of times as tag partners (including versus The Jet Set, The Barons, The Royals, Kwango and Zimba, Masambula and Zimba) but on this particular night they faced each other in a hard-hitting contest; not that the punters would know that they did for Heath was under the bonnet as The Red Scorpion.

Heath always took his wrestling very seriously (he refused point blank to join in with Catweazle's tomfoolery) so I am very surprised to read that he took part in a "street fight". I recall that he did not stay long in Joint after Crabtree took over. He appeared briefly in the independents; in fact, the last time I saw him live was in a slightly naughty billing on a Terry Gudrum show at The Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray. The top of the bill tag was The Borg Twins versus The Dennisons but the Dennisons consisted of Gudrum (Don Kovacs) and Heath. It was not long after this that he departed Britain only to return years later briefly for Crabtree as "Texan" Ted Heath entering the ring in the mandatory stetson. Many will have seen his TV encounter with Alan Kilby.

Looking at this poster they were all decent wrestlers.

All put together this would not have interested me at all.

Nope I wouldn't have paid my 90p, let alone a pound.