There are plenty really but to pinpoint it down to one it has to be Rikki Starrs aeroplane spin on Wild Angus at Liverpool Stadium in the Seventies.Still vivid in my old memory banks.Which was yours?
this is where i get attacked again. TV bout, kendo/daddy, thornley snapped a grapevine on daddy very quick. daddy had real problems standing up afterwards. life is like that
If you re-read my post about George Kidd on Dec 24th, the reverse surfboard submission hold,the beginning of this move is shown on page 1 of this week's newsletter.
I know that I'm always mentioning it, but Adnan Al-Kaissie's "illegal" sleeper hold on Lenny Hurst in their TV bout looms large in the memory many decades on.
Going over the pond, I thought that the WWE reincarnation of Bob Backlund with his cross-faced chicken wing was absolutely brilliant.
this is where i get attacked again. TV bout, kendo/daddy, thornley snapped a grapevine on daddy very quick. daddy had real problems standing up afterwards. life is like that
If you re-read my post about George Kidd on Dec 24th, the reverse surfboard submission hold,the beginning of this move is shown on page 1 of this week's newsletter.
Pat Roach’s Brummagem Bump. Usually signified lights out time for Roach’s opponent.
Geoff Portz putting the aeroplane spin on The Great Togo (Mr Oddjob) and defeating him on TV in 1963.
Dazzler Joe Cornelius turning the bout and body slamming Big Ian Campbell to win 2-1 in a 1963 televised bout.
Jackie Pallo’s backbreaker submission.
I go with Anglo Italian's Kamikaze Crash.
I know that I'm always mentioning it, but Adnan Al-Kaissie's "illegal" sleeper hold on Lenny Hurst in their TV bout looms large in the memory many decades on.
Going over the pond, I thought that the WWE reincarnation of Bob Backlund with his cross-faced chicken wing was absolutely brilliant.
George Kidd used to perform a reverse surfboard which always brought a submission.
Skull Murphy's gator hold looked nasty.
I always enjoyed Andy Robin's
Victory roll pin fall performed by Bernard Murray. Never saw it before and not often afterwards.
Could be dangerous.
Straight arm lift on Bobby Ryan by Jim Breaks at Hanley
And Ricki did a famous televised aeroiplane spin on Mal Kirk.
Nagasaki's Kamikaze Crash still leaves me incredulous.
On the rare occasions Les Kellett's timing was good as he flipped off the ropes, that was great, too.