During a New Year visit to the Isle of Wight I attended an event from the islands very own promotion Outcast Professional Wrestling.This promotion puts on several events a year in Ryde,Ventnor,Shanklin and Newport. Most of the wrestlers are from the Isle of Wight.This led me to consider if during the Golden Era covered by this website the island produced any wrestlers. Portsmouth remained a hotbed for producing wrestlers but not so sure about the Isle of Wight
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Wasn't Doctor Death associated with the Isle of Wight?
Due to its wrestling school the Isle of Wight in 2023 has considerably more Professional Wrestlers than in the whole of the period covered by this site
I can't contribute anything on Isle of Wight wrestlers but hope that you won't object to a little joke I heard some years ago.
Q:- What's brown and comes steaming out of Cowes?
A:- The Isle of Wight ferry.
I am sure there was a thread last year that included an Afro-Caribbean wrestler, who was in fact from the Isle of Wight, I can't think of his name, for now.
I was born and raised on the IW, but haven't heard of Outcast, mainly because I've been based on the North Island (!) for about 30 years.
The only name I can submit is one Doughy Wray who was billed as being from either Cowes or East Cowes. I saw him just the once, that being at what was then Ventnor Winter Gardens, Ken Joyce being the promoter. Ron Historyo has uploaded several posters from the Island, and I recall seeing a couple on which Doughy was billed to face Sid Cooper. As you know, Sid had a reputation for making oppoments look good.
It's not exactly relevant, but Cooper is an Island name. And it happens to be mine!
Please excuse anythig that seems to be a typo or anything similar. I'm writing in dialect.