I could not get used to Alan Dennison as a clean guy.Yes he could really wrestle but he was so well suited to being a 'heel'.
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Sep 25, 2022
Turning the question round … I was never convinced by Wayne Bridges’ heel turn. What on earth possessed him him to scream “Who have you ever beaten?” at Pete Roberts … having just lost to him?! Villainy didn’t come naturally…..
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Oct 28, 2022
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It came in handy for the World title loss to Kendo where he had a large chunk of the audience (craftily positioned right opposite the hard-cam) opposing him.
"Also there was a poster from 1969 of him wrestling a Red Devil on Facebook. This could have been a very ancient Charlie Glover although it was far too early for Bill Clarke's RD from that Daddy tag in '82,"
So not him and probably not Bill Clarke, the other Red Devil we know about.If it's just a Red Devil from Rent-A-Masked-Man I can't see the audience siding with him against Kendo somehow.
Ever so slightly off topic. Mick McManus. Even when he wrestled clean he was still objectionable. Credit to him.
Dave Bond was grudgingly clean.
Best of all was Bruno Elrington. He marvellously portrayed throughout that he was struggling to suppress his rage. He didn't smile. He got frustrated, but with himself. So believable. A superbly crafted show,
Kendo! His thankfully short clean spell was awful.
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Aug 09, 2022
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Just had a check through Kendo's faecbook page. Can't find the triple tag I remember, but here are a couple of shots of Kendo as a blue-eye in 1976 with Count Bartelli against Wild Angus and John Kowalski (with Brian Crabtree refereeing): Just to prove that the Strange And Unholy Alliance with Steve Veidor wasn't Kendo's only venture into babyface-ism circa 1976:
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Sep 22, 2022
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Also there was a poster from 1969 of him wrestling a Red Devil on Facebook. This could have been a very ancient Charlie Glover although it was far too early for Bill Clarke's RD from that Daddy tag in '82, but I have a hard time seeing even Kendo getting an audience to sympathise with a generic felllow masked man with a name like Red Devil. So I expect he was a blue-eye for that one too.
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Oct 28, 2022
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He's been at it again on the blue-eye side in the last few days!
Kendo was a ringside judge in a British Heavyweight Championship match pitting champ Oliver Grey (Joel Redman) against ex champ Nisa The Maori Warrior at the Floral Hall in New Brighton on Sunday night (23rd Oct). When Nisa tried to grab the belt to use as a weapon, Kendo (81 next month) wouldn't let him have it and drove him off with his powers.
Turning the question round … I was never convinced by Wayne Bridges’ heel turn. What on earth possessed him him to scream “Who have you ever beaten?” at Pete Roberts … having just lost to him?! Villainy didn’t come naturally…..
David Mantell:
"Also there was a poster from 1969 of him wrestling a Red Devil on Facebook. This could have been a very ancient Charlie Glover although it was far too early for Bill Clarke's RD from that Daddy tag in '82,"
Unlikely. Charlie died in 1959.
Ever so slightly off topic. Mick McManus. Even when he wrestled clean he was still objectionable. Credit to him.
Dave Bond was grudgingly clean.
Best of all was Bruno Elrington. He marvellously portrayed throughout that he was struggling to suppress his rage. He didn't smile. He got frustrated, but with himself. So believable. A superbly crafted show,
Brian "Gold Belt" Maxine & Pat Roach never quite "did" it for m e..
Kendo! His thankfully short clean spell was awful.