We often discuss wrestlers moving between JPs and the independants.
All over the site we wax lyrical about the bold discipline imposed by JP's founding fathers to establish a serious money-making business. All the more essential within the context of a spectacle that was falsely presenting itself as a competitive sport.
We hear of wrestlers coming and going, disappearing, going overseas (Wormwood Scrubs?), disgruntled, packing it all in to become Jehovah's Witnesses.
It's all too easy for us to create a scenario where all the workers were magnificently disciplined, reliable, efficient, always giving 100%, crowd-pleasing.
Some must simply have been not up to the job, or become stale after trotting out their routines for a decade or two.
So I am asking us to list the reasons why wrestlers may have been given the push. Must have been loads of reasons. Maybe we can identify the most frequent reasons?
I'll start off:
Moonlighting: Les Kellett, Adrian Street, Albert Wall and many others were no longer tolerated within JPs after working for independants. Moonlighting was a one-way path to exclusion. (Not that they necessarily wanted to return!)
Matey Dave has written:
I believe John Yearsley had a period in a H.M. holiday camp for being a very naughty boy but was kept on by promoters when he came out of prison.
Was rumoured that mick mcmanus was seen a couple of nights running across a field with a long ladder to give johnny some jelly babies and basset liquorice allsorts as he missed them