Would liked to have seen Fritz Von Erich over here.Also,Lou Thesz,who I believe did tour here once or twice.Liked to have seen him on with Billy Joyce.What a match that would have been.Finally,Antonnino Rocca,although I think from Argentina,did much of his work in North America.Your choices and opinions please.
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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