Wrestlers who dropped DOWN the weight divisions not up.

Vic Faulkner had been the European Middleweight Champion for about 5 years before losing it to Mick McManus in 1971 and then later in 1971 Faulkner beat Adrian Street to win the vacant British Welterweight title.

Another, perhaps more striking example, is Alan Dennison, who I read challenged Bert Royal for the British Middleweight title in 1965, he was then listed in the early 1970's Wrestler magazine ratings as a Heavy-Middleweight and when I started watching wrestling in 1977, Kent Walton said he weighed 14 stone and so was a Light-Heavyweight and then in 1980 he beat Jim Breaks to win the British Welterweight title!

Billy Howes after he'd been away

Do you have a year for that article Ost? It mentions Mountevans but the weight divisions mentioned aren't quite the same many of us would remember?

Rikki Starr dropped down to heavymiddle.Sure he was billed as a heavy when he first arrived.

Jim Breaks used to oscillate between light and welter. Didn't Mick do similar between welter and middle?

Also ,after his car crash, it looks as if he trimmed down again for the photo of all the JP champions.

Thanks Ost, I had never seen that article before.

It's obviously quite early in his career, do you have any idea of the date please?

AND obviously Norman Walsh was some-one that I should have thought of in my original post on this thread.

To add to Bernard's nomination, here's an article I've referred to before. Norman Walsh moving down then up a weight. Seems silly to me. Your mileage may vary.

Dynamite Kid after he came off steroids.

Masambula.

Eddie Capelli

lol. Like they were ever even weighed.

I think that this would normally only happen following an illness.

Can't think of anyone else at the moment ,but I think that there would be a few.