THE UNMASKINGS OF 'LOS VAQUEROS'

My reason for believing what's written on the programme I shared is that the last match tended to be blank on many RAH programmes I have, because Dave (or later, whoever was sending them to him) would catch the train home so they'd leave before the match had concluded. So it must have be interesting or noteworthy enough to stay on and get the result.

Hi Adrian,I not saying which one is right or wrong but someone fxxxxd up,excuse my French.

Just adds to the mystery!!

I didn't say that I ave an opinion as to which is correct, Main Mask. Don't go putting words in my wouth. One or the other must have happened. Impossible to know. Probably the programme, actually, given the great detail.

It's the mystery contradiction that is the fascination. If we can understand how this came about, we just might unearth more about the inside goings-on; or the mystery that is, in some ways, The Wrestler.

I think this is the first and only discrepancy like this that we have unearthed. Our version of an alien landing.

Maybe my theory that the report was written before the bout is true. It was the final bout and maybe they needed the text hurriedly to print The Wrestler. However, while I can understand an unbooked result due to injury - must have happened loads of times - I cannot imagine an unbooked double unmasking on wrestling's greatest stage.

Then again, the time the photos took to be developed would have left ample time to correct the tag report.

I am going round in circles ...

As the old saying goes 'it's a funny old game'

Thanks Al

That "The Wrestler" of March 1971 would have been on sale at the following month's RAH bill. Fans there would have been outraged at the mis-reporting.

Also, on that decimated bill, the tag match stood out as the most exciting but merited just a few lines in the report. Steve Wright got a two-page splash. Very very weird.

Maybe they wrote the write-up before the evening!!! This is wrestling after all ☺

Just to prove Anglo was right in the wrestler april 1971 as was said it must have been reported wrongly.

We should have asked Judo Alf when he had us in his hand-tie, Hack.

Judo Pete is now our only hope in resolving the mystery.

What an interesting thread and turn of events. Thanks everyone.

If the Judokas did win, which seems likely, why did they not receive any sort of push from their win? I'm not aware of any push, and if it did happen someone here would have known and the story would have come to light years ago.

Could it be that the discrepancy in The Wrestler was a major embarrassment and so the unplanned win was not widely publicised at the time.

But then why announce it in a programme? It's all very odd.

I'm also surprised that even with a serious injury five professionals in the ring (inc the referee) were unable to quickly improvise an alternative ending to save the masked men.

Just when you would think Heritage could not get any better after all these years , we do just keep getting new info and material that makes it all so fascinating.

Another fascinating thread full of surprises.

Looks like Hack was right: maybe a victory for Los Vaqueros was the booked result and they ran with that, perhaps? But an unmasking too ... very very odd, and many thanks for the facsinating scans, both.

At the Royal Albert Hall 15 months before there unmasking!!

All very hard to say fifty years after the event,

One fact: The Wrestler was a Dale Martin mouthpiece, on sale at all shows, including April and May RAH events. No way could they have (deliberately) misreported such a major result. Wrestling was on a fine line of believability without blatant lies.

Hack's joke that Russell had left early is the most likely solution at this point.

Aside from the main debate , but to show how the fans were taken liberties with , and in actual fact a type of unmasking to anyone with a sharp eye , I have here two old bills , two weeks running in 1970 at Belle Vue (sorry poor condition.)

Can you believe it , one week masked and the next Carlos Moll and Manuel Polman.

Here's a link to the original thread

https://heritagedocs.wixsite.com/talkwrestling/forum/memories-of-the-old-days/los-vaqueros-unmasked

It does seem odd that the programme went into such detail. They weren't renowned for detail or reliability.

Or could it be that Russell Plummer left early and had been given the nod of the planned result?

But then we have the case of Ost's programme.

This is case for Miss Marple.

Would you have been there that night Anglo Italian? That would be the clincher.

Also of note Carlos Moll was here briefly in 1969. At Belle Vue...... Polman on same bill

I cannot see Vaqueros after that Newcastle match on 22nd Feb.

Strange goings on at the RAH , typical of wrestling.

Now we have a bigger mystery.