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
PETER/KENDO told Me That-'You had to go and COLLECT MARINO'!!
Otherwise he just 'Waited' for you to 'do something'!!
So Yes! I Think This Match-Up hardly happened at all!!
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