Walk Outs

Anglo is back on the money with old Jack and he did them often spontaneously sometimes against men like Zimba as he judged it not credible he should win and Nigel's look of suprise was legit.He even did it with me but he wanted that as a gee up for a return my reaction must have been a picture,however after causing a near riot I expected return never happened promoter was not impressed it was oop North btw where old Jack had more sway.

Although frustrating to we the fans i always thought that walk outs were part of, dare i say "a planned ending to a bout." Having read Norfolk Snake's comment obviously not! Perhaps continuous culprits should have had a deduction from their purse for that night or even no pay (easier said than done though).

Nice share, Snake Man, thanks.

For me Pallo was synonymous with walk-outs and even was the originator. For other wrestlers it may have been a sign of cowardice, but the walk-out somehow worked within his arrogant persona.

Not that I liked it. Agree with Bernard that it stank.

Back in my wrestling days as a beginner in the late 1980s I was matched with a heavier opponent at Norwich Corn Exchange who had been on the telly a few times ( I wont name him) and he'd started to gain a bit of heat locally. Basically it was one of those nights where everything went wrong, i got knocked about fairly as a consequence before finally my opponent left the ring frustrated more than anything I believe, leaving me a very unikely 'winner'. It was the shittest match I ever had and I felt terrible, felt like quitting, but I did nt and had many better matches thereafter. Part of a learning curve for me I guess. The crowd however were left very puzzled and bemused as to what really happened......

I think it's almost always an unsatisfactory ending. Invariably it's the villain that walks out leaving a feeling of being cheated out of a genuine loss. If it's part of a planned lead up to a return contest then I can see a point to it but in isolation then very unsatisfactory.

The last time I saw Pallo wrestle was in a club in Birmingham, probably 1977. He walked out. That was an isolated show so there seemed no point to that ending.

I think there's been quite a few guilty of walking out of a contest. Kendo, Haystacks, Kirk, Muir, the latter 3 mainly when opposing Shirley, also Spiros Arion and Mighty John Quinn. I "Think" i may have read somewhere that Sammy Lee was considered a bit of a loose cannon as not all of his manoeuvres went to plan and ended up hurting opponents.

I have to say that I never saw a walkout.

I would think that if it happened, I would have felt cheated.

For the fan it's the worst way for a bout to end, it feels like you've been cheated out of a bout, it's an unimaginative and lazy way to finish a bout, personally I hated it.

If it's just done because you don't want either man to lose, or because you want a happy result without the villain actually losing, it's a cop-out. It can be used to great effect though, as when Sammy Lee has his early TV matches and you had villains walking out because they "could't cope with his spectacular style." As with most things in wrestling, it's very effective when done rarely, but tiresome and less effective when it's overdone.