If you have been round a long time you will probably know that Dark owl was Billy Riley and passed the torch to his son Ernie. I think in his book , Count Bartelli said how he could have never have beaten the original Dark Owl and that fighting the son was a better prospect. Well here I have found , I Think , The Launch of Son of Dark Owl.
Dark Owl the 2nd had a long run before Bartelli , the master of unmaskings was to beat him. Afterwards , it was an open secret of who he was. And he remained unmasked.
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But this is wrestling and news did not travel from Hall to Hall or make national papers very often.
So a few years later they did it all again in Kings Lynn. Wonder where else they did it.
Good work. It shows yet again how much we were fooled. Of course it could have been Riley. Here he is two weeks earlier in Hanley
Good Press , My bet , an exaggeration.
"More than four thousand turned away "Was this an exaggeration?If not who was counting?