Here's a Fab Flyer for NOTTINGHAM in 1969 for Our SUNDAY Newsletter!
WHAT!! a Line-Up!!
TED BERESFORD Presents at The ICE RINK-with 4 Top Bouts + a Good Tag Match!
LES 'THE FOX' KELLETT Takes-On MICK MCMANUS!!-while the Other 3 are Title Contests!!
BERT ROYAL Defends his BRITISH HEAVY-MIDDLEWEIGHT Belt against JACKIE 'MR TV'
PALLO!- JON CORTEZ tries for GEORGE KIDD'S WORLD LIGHTWEIGHT Crown and JIMMY
BREAKS puts his EUROPEAN LIGHTWEIGHT Title on the line versus ZOLTAN BOSCIK!!
With LEON ARRAS in the Tag-Anything can happen-and probably did!!
Great Evening's Wrestling!!
MAIN MASK
Anglo Italian wrote with reference to Ted Berseford:
"The name of the promoter interests me and I am still waiting for a non-Southerner to accept my challenge of unravelling some of these righthand-man-type characters for me."
Ted Beresford was hardly anyone's right hand man, he was a man in his own right. Although often in partnership with Norman Morrell he was a Director in Morrell-Beresford Promotions. He promoted independent of Morrell in some halls, including Victoria Hall, Halifax
Victoria Baths, Nottingham, Nottingham Ice Rink, Drill Hall, Lincoln
Festival Inn, Trowell. There were three separate companies: Norman Morrell Promotions, Morrell-Beresford Promotions and Ted's Globe Promotions,
He formed Globe Promotions in the Second World War, using the Government's Holiday at Home Scheme and was promoting in Nottingham in 1945. He was well in with those who were to become Joint Promotions from the start and in 1949 formed the British Wrestling Promoters Association with Norman Morrel, George De Relwyskow,Wryton and Dale-Martin.
Beresford had promoted in Nottingham for a good long while by this point.
Good bill but glaring poster error: shouting about GRAND DOUBLE TITLE EVENT when there are three title bouts.
The name of the promoter interests me and I am still waiting for a non-Southerner to accept my challenge of unravelling some of these righthand-man-type characters for me, eg Best, Green. All I know about this guy is that he wore sunnies and carried enough clout to get a world title for his boy. Was frequently on tv.
Fascinating tag contest at the Paul Lincoln stronghold the Granada Greenford with the very talented Linde Caulder teaming up with "hard man" Peter Rann. A very interesting combination although I doubt if they were good enough to defeat a formidable looking French duo.
This week's newsletter has now been launched into cyberspace:
Around The Halls With Ron
Russ Bishop
In Memoriam
More Promoters of the 1930s
Now, that is a good card! Although Kellett was hardly a shy and timid man in the ring, so a new nickname perleese!