From the moment I started digging into British wrestling history, the Seymour Hall has been a curiosity. The more i've dug, the more questions I have. Even within London, it seemed to operate on its own wavelength. So, will share some items here and hopefully I can get a better understanding of what was going on there.
Amazing but not difficult to see the bill written by someone seeing the world from his own navel.
Halifax doesn't need a county in his mindset because he's from there so everyone should know where it is.
Then the other two Yorkshiremen get specifics. (Mind you, with TO HEX having to do with witchcraft I wonder whether this was just a handy place to bill The Catweazle from?)
Then Kwango just gets West Africa: like a country or city would all be too much work.
This is the dreadful ignorant sloppiness that typified late seventies DM programmes.
Still, a good Saturday night out with seven bouts - though Logan v the lightweight is also rather odd. Looks like Max had no idea who this "South Londoner" was - surely his surname gave a little clue where this Shamrock could have been billed more internationally from?
We knock those years, but not out of malice. It's just that this lazy sloppiness could easily have been overcome and the whole would have been more serious. No pride in their work.
After my chunky 32-page programmes I showed above, I bet the inside of the 1978 one was superficially awful - yet sold at a high price?