Dear Colleagues
This question is obviously inspired by the recent topic entitled "Spiros Arion".
I didn't want this conversation to possibly get lost in that topic so I thought it might be cool to establish this thread to get contributors' opinions.
In one of his books, Adrian Street stated that Max Crabtree booked Spiros Arion to play the role of the world heavyweight champion in England in 1979.
Street explained that Crabtree paid for the manufacture of Arion's belt and installed Spiros as the world heavyweight champion. We now know that the title had no lineage and, as such, Arion had no claim to being recognised as the world heavyweight champion in 1979.
If not Arion had not accepted the booking in 1979 then who would you suggest as the wrestler to be installed as the world heavyweight champion in Britain?
Cheers!
Ed
Who was considered among the best wrestlers on the Continent in the 70s? CWAssn had Otto Wanz...would he agree to work in Britain? Good question.