Following The Infamous T.V. Bout in JANUARY 1967 between MICK MCMANUS and
PETER PRESTON in which MCMANUS had to get himself Disqualified as he Feared
PRESTON Planned to go against 'The Script' and Beat him-
It has been Mooted that PRESTON would be Ostracised from JOINTS for Disobeying
'Orders'?
YET here he is 11!! Months Later STILL Wrestling for NORMAN MORRELL....AND
Tagging with of All People-'IRON MAN' STEVE LOGAN-The Big Buddy and Official
Tag Partner of Non-Other than MICK MCMANUS!!
Now I Know that MORRELL Controlled LIME GROVE BATHS-his 'Enclave' in
LONDON-So Perhaps giving PRESTON More Work Up NORTH- is Understandable
But This is Hardly Constitutes a FULL JOINTS 'Ban' but rather a DALE MARTINS
Boycott!
But to 'Pair him Up' with STEVE LOGAN is Surely Adding Insult to Injury?
Why did STEVE Even AGREE to This?-To Tag with the ONLY Wrestler to Score a
T.V. Win over his Friend MICK??
Where was his 'Loyalty'?
Don't say he was a 'Professional'!#?-Surely this goes DEEPER than that?
Incidentally as We Know-MORRELL gave PRESTON More Work in 1967!
But for LOGAN to do This???
MAIN MASK
Told the story before Anglo I bumped into Logan on a sea front fairground in 1989/90 at Morecambe. Looked sad. His wife had died there in 1987 and Steve Logan died there in2003.
I just don't know about his career movements.
No trace of Preston v McManus ever again as far as I can see.
As for Logan , I don't really know what year he came to live up north , but that would have changed his exact status with Dales. Logan would always get plenty of work whatever he did.
Here's PETER PRESTON in SOUTHAMPTON in NOVEMBER 1970!!
Hardly a SIX Year 'Boycott' Blacklisting'!!
You don't get ANY FURTHER SOUTH than SOUTHAMPTON!!
AND-did MCMANUS EVER Fight PRESTON AGAIN-after LIME GROVE in
JANUARY 1967???-Over to RON??
MM
That's great stuff, Saxonwolf. So fast, too!
It's good to revisit these old themes from time to time. Today's surge, if anything, rather reduces the whole concept of the boycott.
In response to Hack, I certainly think the promoter wanted his non-Morrell bookings to go the full distance, probably with an eye to what they were costing him: Nagasaki, Logan and Robinson. The result is a looong show. The tag was, surprisingly, on third. Such a late finish that the results writer had to leave to get the last bus home and he didn't get to see Logan's driver!
Nagasaki submitting in a surfboard must have been some spectacle!
Totally irrelevant to the discussion, but what an odd order of matches. My experience of Morrell shows was that the bouts were usually in the order of the programme, and the tag match inevitably last. Also surprising was that the tag match went the full thirty minutes rather than the expected Preston/Logan win after the usual twenty minutes. So, who was late arriving - Purvey or Green?
"...did Peter Preston have other Dale Martin bookings even before January 1967?..."
Peter Preston was on a Dale Martin show at Hemel Hempstead in 1966, which was broadcast on TV. There were probably others, but as we all know, it is hard to find dates sometimes.
"...what use did the other JP promoters make of P. Preston in 1967 and 1968? Did any of them boycott him?..."
I can see him working for Norman Morrell, Morrell and Beresford, Relwyskow and Green, Billy Best, Devereaux Promotions.
He is back in the Dale Martin fold in 1970 and especially in the second half of the year, lots of Dale Martin dates.
He could have worked for Dale Martin prior to 1970, but we would need someone with extensive results to find that out.
Yes, black and white. Blacklisted by Dale Martins for six years but positively feted by Morrell, who featured Peter Preston as the Giantslayer in numerous top of the bill matches.
And yet, he's included in the 1970/71 Who's Who, surely against Dale Martin wishes. Once again the precise balance of power early seventies remains unclear.
More interesting to explore would be the Grey areas.
By this I mean, and ask: what use did the other JP promoters make of P. Preston in 1967 and 1968? Did any of them boycott him?
And one other point: did Peter Preston have other Dale Martin bookings even before January 1967? Maybe he didn't and quite simply never was a Dale Martin wrestler - in which scenario there was no boycott.
I don't recall it ever being mooted Peter Preston was given a full Joints ban. He was a regular bill topper after the McManus match against Pallo, Kidd and Logan..He had giant killing TV wins over The Wildman of Borneo, Ezzard Hart and Soulis Tsickrikas.
When Anglo Italian and I visited him he said that at the next Joint meeting they went through the motions of censuring him but had been assured by Morrell everything would be alright. The morning after the Joint meeting the first to phone him to say he would be getting more work was George DeRekwyskow.
As for the tag match. It might have seemed odd to the believers at the time. But hardly a traitor. Logan probably knew nothing about this until arriving at the hall. When a wrestler posted a date list some years back it listed only date and venue.