Thanx to BERNARD Especially- We All Know a Great Deal about THE GHOUL of the Late
1940's and 1950's!!-The Unbeaten Run of BIG BOMBER BATES in This 'Guise' is The Stuff
of Legends!
And When JOHN BATES Passed Away in 1961-We Know That The Mantle of THE GHOUL
was Taken-Up by BILL COVERDALE-Probably Overlapping The Late 1950's into The Early
1960's!!- As Both These Wrestlers Started in The Sport from The '40's-They must have
Known Each Other Quite Well!!-Indeed BATES-as THE GHOUL-must have Taken-On BILL
COVERDALE- The Latter under his Own Name!!
But here is a Rarity-BATES-into his Run as THE GHOUL- Facing-Off against THE GHOUL
of The Future-BILL COVERDALE-Headlining a Show at the BIRMINGHAM STADIUM- On
SATURDAY 2ND JULY 1949!!-And Not a Fiendish Sinister MASK in Sight!!
Was This a DRAW Then??- If Not......
Who Won This Battle of THE GHOULS?- My Money is on BATES!!
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I saw both as the Ghoul and I could tell straight away that this was not Bates.
Coverdale was not quite as tall or as muscular as Bomber, neither, for me, did he have the ring presence.
I saw a fight between Assirati and Coverdale (as the Ghoul) at the Merry Fiddlers Dagenham.
This was not the fight that everyone was talking about.
A much lower key job which I described to the best of my ability on here.
So you had better ask the Oracle (Hack) to find it and put it up.
Late 1950s? There's a bit about it in Garfield's The Wrestling. I was talking to Charlie Scot's son the other day His father did go to the hospital where the Ghoul was taken but he doesn't know who was under the mask. I seem to remember there was a write up in the New Musical Express.
who was under the hood when our Bert threw the Ghoul out of the ring at the Merry Fiddlers ? Was it a sub for Coverdale ?
Here's the thing , I don't think we have anyone on here who saw both. Wish we did. I never saw either. I suspect he would have copied. I suspect Bates approved of the copying.
Now then Adrian , you know I love the masked men. Yes quite right 1949 was quite late for Bomber to be wrestling without the mask.
So much so that I can show you Ghoul v Coverdale either side of that date. 1948 and 1950.
However!- We also Know that There was ANOTHER GHOUL-BEFORE BATE's
Incarnation-in The 1930's!- 'Managed' by ATHOLL OAKELEY- This-Probably
Original- Version was Billed at 7' 2" and 25 Stone+
Rumoured to be 'CARVER DOONE' under The Hideous Hood-and alternatively
JACK BALTUS- How would THIS GHOUL have Fared against BOMBER BATES'
Version??-Or against That of BILL COVERDALE??
Below MAIN MASK is Holding My SUPER-RARE Card Poster-Complete with
Original Hanging Ribbon for a 'HOLOCAUST' Appearance of The 1930's
GHOUL at The TOWER in NEW BRIGHTON!!
So Just WHO would have Emerged Victorious from THE GHOUL versus THE
GHOUL versus THE GHOUL??
I Think I Know What BERNARD might say?!!
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