Certain Ring Styles,Ring Antics and Ringcraft don't always gel and dovetail into those of another Wrestler not matter how well known!
In the Opposite Case you get multiple Bouts between the same Protagonists because their
Styles are so suited!-Hence we only know of ONE Bout between KENDO NAGASAKI and
LES KELLETT-even KENDO Himself can only recall the ONE!!
KELLETT rarely Lost-KENDO NEVER Lost-and the Comedy Routine just simply didn't Work
against KENDO'S Ruthless and Murderous Tactics of Attack!
So what about LES KELLETT vs. MARK ROLLERBALL ROCCO???
To start with similarly Weighted-so Credible there!-ROCCO often mentions LES in Interviews
-saying how most of the Wrestlers were 'scared to death' of him as he was 'rock hard'!!
But did ROCCO ever Fight KELLETT? I certainly don't recall such a Bout in the early/mid '70's! Surely a complete Clash of Styles?-Although MARK 'reluctantly'-as he says-went along
with the BIG DADDY Circus for awhile before 'escaping' to JAPAN- ROCCO was a SERIOUS
no nonsense Wrestler with a 100 m.p.h. Work Rate and Punishing Ring Style!
Would it have been a Case of even 'rock hard' LES getting a Beating!-We hear of KING BEN
being sick in the bucket during a Fight with ROCCO!-KUNG FU took a few Beatings not to mention the Wars MARTY JONES had with the MEAN MACHINE!
Maybe RON can unearth this Match?
Did Anyone else Witness such a Clash?
I can't see that it could have 'Worked' myself!
MAIN MASK
I am sure that on the TV show, "Everything Stopped at 4 O'Clock", Kellett was very complimentary towards Kendo, am I remembering that correctly?
Yep, I have seen it Adrian, wish I'd been to the Kendo talk!.
Nice to see the poster Anglo. Thanks Mate
January 5, 1956 in Bristol had Kellett vs Howes billed. October 10, 1956 in Belfast; Kellett b Howes. Two weeks later, same result.
February 21, 1957 in Morecambe; Howes b Kellett
April 10, 1957 in Scunthorpe had Kellett vs Howes billed.
May 5, 1958 in Edinburgh; Kellett b Howes.
May 8, 1958 in Morecambe; Kellett b Howes.
July 22, 1958 in Leeds; Les Kellett & Lew Roseby b Tony Mancelli & Bill Howes (DQ, 2-2)
October 21, 1958 in Bridlington; Kellett b Howes.
June 4, 1959 in Bolton had Kellett vs Howes billed.
October 21, 1959 in Bridlington; Kellett b Howes. (same result a year apart?)
That's what I could find from the 50's.
If he did I'm glad I didn't see it as they just wouldn't be suited to each other. I'd love to see how the Nagasaki v Kellet bout worked, that one was about a strange as it gets.
All the more surprising since Jim Hussey was a fairly frequent Kellett opponent, so a very friendly relationship must have existed.
Could it be that to sell Kellett's routines you needed a good bit of experience?
Could it also be that Kellett or the promoters didn't want to highlight how very aged he was, with heckling like "He could be your grandad" - when he probably indeed could?
Also, Kellett wasn't agile enough to sell their routines.
He certainly seemed to avoid these youngsters, and probably very wisely so.
Kellett went to the independents at the end of 1975. Even if he had wrestled Rocco on Joint bills MArk would not yet have become the wrestler we all remember him for.
I couldn't find one either. On the same show quite a bit, but never against each other.
Rocco was still on his way up when Kellett moved over to the independents.
I can't find Kellett v Rocco , would have thought it happened but there are others that are similar. Logan and Ginsberg also seem to have been avoided, but maybe it was the styles. Also Billy Howes.
I watched Rocco from his debut and he was all about speed. Initially he might have been thirteen stone and seldom did he fight anyone heavier. Marty Jones was a little heavier and also a nice safe bout with Colin Joynson and Marino, but he met an awful lot of lighter men such as Dynamite , John Naylor , Catweazle.
After I had stopped watching , I know Rocco did all this blood stuff with Kendo and Tony StClair and as always with Rocco it looked very real.
But the Rocco I remember would have never have gone in with big men , he was a fantastic non stop intense wrestler.
That's no excuse though for not finding a Kellett match. Kellett did fight a lot of big men, Could it be just styles , maybe it's just my imagination.
Did all the young guys get protected from Kellett. (Jones, Dynamite and Finlay for example)
Great question MM.