Just watching Mick today on World of Sport, in the bout where he appointed himself as the one to unmask Kung Fu on tv.
We have mentioned over these many years all sorts of privileges that Mick accorded himself.
In fairness, he seems to have got the balance right as he always protected wrestling's interest and gave value for money.
But I thought it might just be fun to group together here the various VIP treatments he accorded himself, and perhaps to try to identify just when his VIP status began.
Any thoughts?
What? .... What?...
A proposal that McManus kept headlining in the 70s?
By then he was well past his sell by date and would have discredited the business he had given so much to if he had carried on. He had the grace and sense to bow out, arguably a few years too late, but no more than most. Let's give him credit for that. I will.
As for suppressing the heavies. Well, in the seventies they were well and truly suppressed. The big names on the block were mostly lighter men, Anglo Italian doesn't need me to name names and dismiss this nonsense.
"Heavyweights were expensive, capricious, slow on the small screen". There you have a statement worthy of discussion in a thread of its own. Personally I wouldn't cheapen the comment by insulting a couple of our heavyweight greats.