Last Newsletter Weekend for APRIL-and Our Poster Dated for 24TH APRIL is One of My Prized
YELLOW GRANADA Large flyers for KINGSTON!!-A Good Solid 5 Bout Show Featuring The
SILENT ONES in The Tag Match and an Appearance by The IRON MAN from BRIXTON!!
Also an Interesting HEAVYWEIGHT Clash between 'REBEL' RAY HUNTER and BIG BRUNO
ELRINGTON On This Card-which I Bet Resulted in a Draw!!
5 Heavyweights On This Bill!!
MAIN MASK
Even without the internet the phenomenon of repeated matches could be identified if not the extent.Every year at the seaside there would be matches repeated from a few weeks before.Anything with Kellett/Logan was guaranteed to be a 100% minimal risk fiasco
We see plenty of flaws in the matchmaking and of course they had no internet or even computers.
So I often wonder what systems were in place to ensure Logan v Kellett, and other similar routines, weren't reproduced over frequently at the same venue?
McManus v Colbeck was greatly over deployed in Hastings, ad nauseum. That was a flaw.
Similarly, they needed to ensure these routine bouts were staged at every venue, but I'm sure plenty missed out. Like Hack says, if you weren't aware or simply had never seen these match-ups, they were very exciting.
Logan and Kellett is one of those matches that in our internet embellished times is often derided due to the frequent repetition we were unaware of at the time. But back in the early 1970s I was pretty excited when I sawit on the poster, though I can't remember the result or anything about it, which makes me think Kellett won.
Wrestling overseas today, Ramon Napolitano (as Tinker Todd), was in the losing tag team, in Atlanta, Georgia, on this day in 1964.
Also wrestling overseas today, Marty Jones defeated Kuniaki Kobayashi, in Nagoya, Japan, on this day in 1978.
On our TV screens, on this day in 1971:-
Les Kellett (W) v Steve Logan
Jackie Pallo (W) v Bobby Barnes
Bert Royal/Vic Faulkner v Pete LaPaque & Jon LaPaque
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Those handbills you drool over were distinctive and very attractive, maintained following the merger when I am pleased to see the northern spelling of Veidor was adopted.
Promoters often disregarded where wrestlers were born, lived or the location of their favourite chip shop and billed them from all over the place. Yet Jack Taylor who moved to Leicestershire after the Second World War was always billed from his home town of Accrington. You can take the boy out of Lancashire, but you can't take Lancashire out of the boy.