UNUSUAL/INTERESTING PROGRAMMES!!

These early posters were very effective in building up anticipation of a legitimate fight

Having looked again at a photo of the poster, with a magnifying glass, there is no other information, not even a town where the promotion is based. But thanks Powerlock and Grahambrookjazz for your comments.

You would probably have also seen on the poster the promoter listed as Jack Gutteridge; his real name. He was cousin to the ITV boxing commentator Reg Gutteridge.

I saw Jackie Pallo wrestle Catweazle at Ryde Town Hall in July 1981. The poster advertising the show had a large red star and the words, The star who presents the stars, wrestlings finest promoters. Would Jackie Pallo have been the promoter?.

I recall Jackie Pallo wrestling for me in the late seventies at a show I promoted at Halton British Legion in Runcorn. It was a tag match with Pallo partnering Jim Moser against The Black Diamonds. At this stage The Black Diamonds was really Abe Ginsberg and another wrestler who wore Ginsberg's spare black skull cap. On this occasion it was Jimmy Munroe. I have written about this bout before so will not repeat myself.

But, on topic, I recall Pallo confiding to me in the dressing room that he now had two hip replacements (Teflon I think I recall) so he avoided his feet leaving the ring floor wherever possible. He still had tremendous personality but, when I was a kid, I recall Pallo doing some superb manoeuvers and it was a little sad to observe his lack of mobility in his final ring years. Also ironic that punters who dabbled in promoting such as myself were giving him the decent paydays that he failed to get when his work rate showed that he genuinely deserved them.

I don't know when Jackie Pallo last wrestled. But I do remember from the late seventies that he aged rather badly, certainly worse than Kellett and McManus,

My memory is that he wouldn't have wrestled at all in the eighties, or very little; or in a limited way with no real action.

Unlikely, as far as I know, he stopped being "Dr. Death" after his stint in Spain (as Dr. Death) in the mid 70's. He returned to Australia in 1975, and returned the UK in 1986, by which time he would have been 54 years old. Jackie Pallo would have been 54 years old at the start of that decade (1980), so I would imagine he was already starting to wind down his live appearances.

That doesn't mean that someone wrestled in Beeston, under the name Dr. Death, but the chances of that person being Paul Lincoln are very slim, in my opinion.

Did Jackie Pallo wrestle Paul Lincoln (Doctor Death) at the Victory Club in Beeston near Nottingham some time in the 80's

Staranoff is surely Jo Zaranoff.

Interesting to see Marino's top status over three decades. For different promotions. I can understand some of the reservations we have had about him (and Nagasaki seemed to share). But it's hard not to think we have under-rated him - he must have had some talent we have failed fully to appreciate?

Here it says he won the 1952 Popularity Poll!

Thanks for the Garfield bill, Main Mask. No shame in seeing Garfield disqualified, must have caused a riot.

Just seeing Dave Armstrong on the bill makes me wonder whether Garfield ever donned a mask ...?

Janos Nemeth was an agricultural student and teenager when he left Humgary during the 1956 uprising. He got a job working in the south Yorkshire coal mines before moving to Southend. He pursued the amateur wrestling career he had started in Hungary, and turned professional early in 1962. Weighing under twelve stones Janos worked for independent promoters for a couple of years.

Now if this was pre 1966 it would be important. But by 1968 Lincoln was no longer independent and a branch of Dale Martin.

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I now see Anglo Italian answered about an hour ago

Thanks Main Mask.

The Headhunter was an earlier incarnation of N'Boa the Snakeman.

That Viking resembles France's Jo Gueret - could it be him?

But no surprise to see Pallo on a post-1966 Lincoln bill, though the photo highlighting the second's back certainly shows that Lincoln was pleased with his catch.

And now here's a One-Off Appearance of a Wrestler hailing from the 'CONGO'

at KINGS HALL BELLE VUE in 1962....

It's the Scary...HEADHUNTER!-Can' find this Guy anywhere else so far!..

Also on this Show we have another One-Off 'Sinister'sounding Character...

BLACK SALEM??-It seems both these two Wrestlers Lost their Bouts!! and

promptly Disappeared!!.....

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