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!!
MAIN MASK
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.