Should they have added a super heavyweight division,say over 20 stones,when wrestlers became so big?

Did wrestlers ever have weigh ins before a match?

my dear children, let us not forget that none of it was real and was a work

It was always good to see the lighter heavyweights such as Billy Joyce, Rikki Starr and Dazzler Joe Cornelius take on the real heavies and invariably come off winners. In the Golden Age of the 1960’s I can’t recall any top wrestler, other than The Zebra Kid, weighing in at more than 20 stones. Stars such as Robinson, Gordienko, Campbell, Armstrong, Da Silva, Gwyn Davies and Wall wrestled at around 17 stones, Elrington, Kovacs and Le Grand Vladimir at 17.5 - 18 stones with Paul Vachon maybe a little heavier.

Sorry this should have been in the So thread

There's some truth in this but it was a combination of factors. Crabtrees elevation was a gradual progression ,he believed that too many workers dictated there use on bills,this in the past had been handled well by the joint directors,Crabtree intially did not have the clout to manage this,but on gaining further control used tatics to remind all he was the boss.This led to elevation of journey mean who were cheaper and renaming them with ludicrous 1950s U S A names garnered from old wrestling mags the same mags that Pallo developed some of his early moves, Max just used the names. He wanted cheaper manpowe end of and took a dislike to the guys who's business acumen outside the ring led them to question the direction of the game. His intention to dumbdown the workers as his eventually did with punters in the halls.

I don't think so. There would have been very few wrestlers in the division, depending on the lower weight. Few of the super heavies would make a match of it against each other, exceptions being the likes of Daddy and Haystacks. Pat Roach and Gwyn Davies were very big heavies, but there didn't seem any need to create a division for them as they got in fine with the lighter heavies. If we are talking about the very big men of the 1980s why give them credibility?

yes makes sense but not sure how popular that division would be. even in the 1800s they had all weight competitions aka overall championship and often it was comical to see someone like 20st Steadman wrestling some 11st man. Bigger man always wins. Harry Brooks had no problems with Billy Riley neither Geo Gregory had, and both weren't significantly heavier. Riley was middleweight, other two were light-heavies.