As We All Know Many Wrestlers Fought Each Other Hundreds Of Times!
And Conversely Certain Wrestlers HARDLY EVER Found themselves in Opposite
Corners!?-Many Reasons for the Latter are Often Mooted-a common one being
'It wouldn't 'Work' Well as a Sporting Spectacle due to 'Contrasting Styles' etc!
But The Promoters DID Try putting in Virtually ALL Wrestlers with Each Other at least
A 'Handful' of Times for a Myriad of Reasons!-'No Shows' on Bills and so on!
Below is One Such Bout That I don't Immediately Recall having seen Staged before?!
The Year is 1971 and We are at The GRANADA EAST HAM!
The Top Bout is MICK MCMANUS versus BOB FRANCINI!!-Seldom seen Indeed?!
FRANCINI-Billed here from NEW ZEALAND!-Wrestled Predominantly in The NORTH-
While MCMANUS was Largely a SOUTHERN Fighter!-There was also a Weight
Disparity-although NOT Huge!
Don't think BOB was The Winner!?-Especially in LONDON?
Can RON Find Any More Clashes between These Two?
Incidentally around This Time FRANCINI had Just come off a Run as a Hooded Wrestler
When his RED MASK Character was Finally Defeated and Unmasked by BLACK MASK
At MALVERN in a MASK versus MASK Contest!!
MAIN MASK
It should be noted that the UK went over to decimal currency three days later, so this would have been one of the last bills printed only in LSD.