Alan Wood has a couple of very good matches on You Tube.The A-Z entry does not state if he is still alive. If he is he could be added to sixties greats still with us
Unfortunately, he can't Peter. Alan died quite a few years ago, he's not listed in the Final Count because we have no date. I asked Roy Wood, must be about ten years ago, he said Alan had died quite a few years earlier but couldn't remember when. He was a superb wrestler. I disliked the Tiger moniker. Another one dreamt up by Max as a nod to the past and mistakenly thinking he was creating interest. I remember the first time I saw Tiger Wood v Golden Ace. I wasn't disappointed in the match but was disappointed to find it was Alan Wood and John Naylor.
Is "Tiger" one of those nick names that traditionally goes with the surname "Wood" or "Woods"? I am thinking of the golfer, Tiger Woods, and why he would be a "Tiger".
Is there an old Royal Navy tradition behind this, I wonder?
People called "Wilson" in the Navy were nearly always christened "Tug", Clarke's were nearly always "Nobby", Whites were always "Chalky".
Maybe not the Navy, but with our own wrestling "Tiger Wood" and the Golfer, "Tiger Woods", is there some old fashioned connection between the two names?
One Tiger who should have been a lion is Tiger Dalibar Singh, Singh being Punjabi for lion
The A-Z lists a Tiger White indicating Tiger is not exclusively linked to Wood or Woods
Turns out the earlier Tiger Wood was in the Army, not the Navy:
Here's ALAN WOOD Fighting PETE MCGOWAN-a Wrestler HACK Once Wrote a Full
Page Article in RINGSPORT Magazine about!
This Bill for MADELEY STREET BATHS in HULL!!
MAIN MASK
Unfortunately, he can't Peter. Alan died quite a few years ago, he's not listed in the Final Count because we have no date. I asked Roy Wood, must be about ten years ago, he said Alan had died quite a few years earlier but couldn't remember when. He was a superb wrestler. I disliked the Tiger moniker. Another one dreamt up by Max as a nod to the past and mistakenly thinking he was creating interest. I remember the first time I saw Tiger Wood v Golden Ace. I wasn't disappointed in the match but was disappointed to find it was Alan Wood and John Naylor.