Which North American wrestlers would you have liked to have seen in British rings?

Of course but as fanatical teenage wrestling fans in the UK who believed everything we saw, read or heard we wanted those big names to take on our World champ - at the time it seemed like the real deal to have Wayne Bridges as World champ...

I guess when Spiros Arion and John Quinn came and went and Bridges was World title holder it created a new buzz for fans. Moose Morrowski was supposed to be next to appear, but never did. I guess it would have been great at the time if the US claimants such as Nick Bockwinkle, Ric Flair, Bob Backlund etc would have come over. We got glimmers of info from Wrestling magazines about them, it would have been great to have seen how good they all were in that same era. I always think the promoters missed a trick in not getting some bigger better names over. It would also have been good to have seen the likes of Les Thornton and Billy Robinson back when Bridges/Quinn/St Clair were champions

Jim Londos...Obviously before my time.But I wish he could have used a "back to the future" machine and arrived in the late 60's ,He was the master wrestler of his era,taking on and beating much bigger men.He in my opinion would have beaten "Our" Billy Robinson

PS .I know Londos was born in Greece,but he spent most of his life in The USA.

Thesz or Gagne. There is plenty of Carpentier footage from France, but I prefer his US work.

Never really understood why so many North American wrestlers visited Germany and Austria for the tournaments but not the UK

I should have said on TV

Ricky Steamboat. I regret to say that after seeing a bout of his I realised how tired and pedestrian British wrestling had become.

Thank you Ian.

one of my favourites was DICK THE BULLDOG BROWER. used to enjoy him, seemed to have nasty black sense of humour

Harley Race versus Gwyn Davies

Hi Bernard. The promoter was Ted Beresford.

Kind regards, Bernard,Ian

No takers for the promoter of the Thesz v Walsh title match?

Please !

I would have loved to have seen George "The Animal" Steele and Abdullah the Butcher live. One of my biggest thrills as a wrestling punter was to see Mae Young live (albeit in a comedy bout) at The Kensington Olympia. Seeing Lelani Kai in Blackburn was also quite a big deal for me.

Lou Thesz with Takada (wearing Thesz's belt) Dan Hodge and Billy Robinson

Dean Malenko would have fitted in perfectly. Another master of 1,000 holds.

That's the first time that I have noticed this programme.

Norman was never tall enough to carry the weight to be a full heavyweight,so to achieve this level of prominence, he must have been well thought of by the promoters.

Please can you tell me who promoted this bill at Victoria baths Nottingham ?

In the 80s there was a american lightweight wrestler named Denny Brown. I always enjoyed his matches. A few month ago I watched a few of his matches again on youtube and thought to myself he would fit perfect to the WoS scene. Can you imagine matches against Collins, Cullen, Mike "Flash" Jordan I think these would be tremendous. If you dont know him watch him on youtube. Not a great body but a great mat wrestler.

The great Arn Anderson versus Pat Roach.

Hack, wow THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this programme, much appreciated. You see the nine-link belt on it? It's an old pugilistic gold-plated silver (I think so) belt from the 1880s known as John L. Sullivan Trophy.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_681093

Jack Sherry was welcomed by British wrestling public in the 30s...I thought of Londos in the 30s, he was the biggest draw in world wrestling history...Lewis in the 20s...Stecher in the 1915-1920...40s my heart is with Frank Sexton OHIOan...or Irish Casey, Szabo...I am AWA of Boston fan so my choices are quite obvious.

50s it was Thesz...and Buddy Rogers and Pat O'Connor....Carpentier was also great...60s - NO DOUBTS FREDDIE BLASSIE THE ULTIMATE ONE AND ONLY KING OF MEN, and yes Sammartino...70s Harley Race and Bob Backlund...also we had Bockwinkle as a champ...80s I would still say Hogan, he was a man of decade.

How about Mark Rocco vs Rick Rude or Bam Bam Bigelow vs Wayne Bridges

I guess the other side of the question is, who would you match them up against?

The US was always the domain of heavyweights and then junior heavyweights. Lightweights like Johnny Saint and George Kidd would have been giving away a lot of weight.

Verne Gagne against Marty Jones could have been a very good technical match.

A peak Shawn Michaels against Rob Brookside? (Shawn is not that big, I have met the guy and I was taller/bigger, even with his (very) high heeled cowboy boots on.

Vader vs King Kong Kirk?

Undertaker vs Pat Roach?

I saw Eduardo Carpentier on television but I would have loved to have seen him live as he looked to be the real deal. All the others have been mentioned with the exception of Dory Dixon and Verne Gagne.

Gorilla Monsoon! He fascinated me in The Pictorial History of Wrestling. What a beautiful eloquent American voice he had, very un-Gorilla.

There are several already mentioned I would like to have seen in British rings but also a masked wrestler who was called The Destroyer, Dick the Bruiser and Shawn Michaels.

Lou Thesz, Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sammartino, as these were the guys who were the main eventers of their time.

Stan Hansen, so that he could tag team with his friend, Judo Pete Roberts.

McManus would have steered clear of him!

Killer Kowalski removed one of Yukon Eric's ears. An accident probably.

They said that he was always a handful.

I wonder if they would have allowed him to act like that over here.

Gorgeous George for me.

To see where it all started and how much of what others created was truly original.

Too many for me to pick from , but I would go for showmen.

Undertaker , Ultimate Warrior , Van Vader , and a slightly smaller man in Ken Shamrock.

But honestly , showmen every time.

Lou Thesz because he seemed to be the most credible of the champions when I was interested. Bruno Sammartino because he always looked so powerful and was the alternative champ but didn't seem to me as invincible as Thesz. Don Leo Jonathan, not sure if it was just the name but he always looked big and exciting. Abdullah the Butcher and The Sheikh, both because they just seemed so crazy with a level of violence unheard of down the Preston Public Hall. Danny Hodges because he was billed as Junior Heavyweight Champion, reckoned to be scientific and so I wanted to see him against Howes and Marino.