Wrestlers Who Never Won

Not sure whether The Artful Dodgers ever won?

there are records of roy bull Davies winning plus tug Bolton and peacock chap on the ITV list. also Mick McMichael

Mention of the late ‘Gaylord’ Steve Peacock leads me to wonder if he should be included here? If we include tag teams, Pete LaPaque and Tommy Lorne?

Mick McMichael has one win on You Tube versus Peter Kaye

For all his TV appearances, I never saw Al Nicol win a match.

and meanwhile there was always billy stock, the people's champion

Who never won?

Eric Turner of Leyland (no, not Eric Taylor).

After 15 years I'm still waiting for you to get back Eric (last seen in the British Legion, Leylnad).

Mick McMichael was the most successful loser getting into the top five for TV appearances

Yes, you've jogged my memory.

I've remembered a little bit more. I'm pretty sure his surname was Thompson.

Also, slightly off topic, but I think it was Steve Fury who bought up a lot of Dale Martin's memorabilia.

I think Steve Fury used to post on here, years ago?, someone can remind us if that is correct.

Edit:

Here he is -

Steve Fury

The decision of  teenager Steve Fury to leave home and move from his Lancashire home town of Leyland to the seaside resort of Blackpool proved a fortunate one for the youngster who was keen on wrestling. In Blackpool he discovered that one of his friend's father was none other than the wrestler and promoter Bobby Barron. Steve began working for Bobby putting up the ring, setting out the chairs and all those other behind the scenes jobs. Bobby started teaching Steve a few wrestling moves until one day he was a wrestler short and asked Steve to step into the ring and begin his career as a pro wrestler. Steve admits his opponent was kind to him that day, so much so that he didn't realise just how much he had to learn. It was John Naylor that taught him that lesson! Soon Steve was working every day of the week, often more than once on the same day, wrestling on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, holiday camps around the north and Scotland, and the halls of the independent promoters. Eventually Max Crabtree asked Steve to work for Joint Promotions, and this led to television appearances against Peter Kaye, Lucky Gordon, Steve Peacock, Rollerball Rocco,  and a tag match partnering Ringo Rigby. In the years following his retirement Steve has remained involved with wrestling in various ways and is now one of the organisers of the Wrestlers Reunion Leeds.

I recall Lucky Gordon having a TV win against Steve Fury. I don't know the lad's real name but he turned up at one of my shows in Bollington once with Bobby Barron. Not only was Bobby wrestling for me that night (against Eddie Rose) but he was also providing the ring and "Steve Fury" was there to help set it up. I recall him trying to sell me a watch (he had a suitcase full of them) and when I told him I wasn't interested, he went round the audience trying to flog them. He also made quite an impression on two young ladies from Bollington that night as I saw with my own eyes when I entered the dressing room unexpectedly. He still seems to be around and the last I heard of him was a few years ago when he was organising a Q and A session in a social club somewhere in Blackpool with Billy Robinson.

I notice that I made a couple of contributions to this debate when it first appeared a while ago now. I don't know why, but I did not contribute the fact that John Lees only worked for me once but he went over that night against a masked Kevin Cawley at The Parr Hall, Warrington.

Some wrestlers never won because legitimally not very good. Pete Wilson never seemed as tough as his brother and seemed to lose by submissions. Remember him with his head tied in the ropes which looked very realistic to me.

Pete Collins was always in the shadow of Danny and has a match on You Tube loosing to Steve Speed as recently as 2011 at Cheltenham Town Hall

Think I might have found a win for Mulligan; August 16, 1987 in Great Yarmouth: KO;Brooks bt McGregor; Mulligan bt I.Trevors

F;Brooks bt Mulligan

And I was there! Maybe strange to let him win as Ivan Trevors was the local boy but it probably made a better final.

How about Lucky Gordon? He seemed to be another good at making others (especially youngsters) look good.

Peter Wilson and Pete Collins I don't think I ever saw win.

What about that big fella... whatshisname.... Big Daddy, did he ever win? Can't recall any wins!!! 😜

I do agree with you Anglo. Apparently Tug (Tommy) Holton was a former professional boxer and he often used to square up to his opponent in the style of a fighter. Boxing was probably his first love. Being billed from Waterloo is interesting ,as up to around the 1970's the area around Waterloo was a very tough working class environment, far removed from nowadays where luxury flats, offices and expensive "cottages" prevail.

Bermondsey is a similar gentrified area and look how many wrestlers hailed from that part of South London.

Incidentally Holton earned the prefix Tug as he worked as a lighterman on the river Thames. I never really felt Tug Holton really had his heart in wrestling but it obviously supplemented his income.

Hi The Ost

Great research by the way with "I might have found a win for Mulligan; August 16, 1987 in Great Yarmouth."

Since this thread reverses all logic, I am going to comment:

Ah yes, but he was quite old then and way past his prime; that's why he started winning.

I don't recall ever having seem Mick McMichael win a match. Granted he was quite young when I first saw him back in 1963 onwards but even later as an old hand on TV he still lost when I saw him. Very good wrestler nontheless.

Powerlock says these losers could give anyone a good match, and he's right. That was their job and they performed it well. It's a peculiar business where success is demonstrated by apparent failure. Is there any other work where we could get away with that. And why did the promoters chose the likes of poor old Larry and Tug to be the ones going down night after night?

Did any of us consider them perennial losers at the time? I think not. I certainly didn't. It never occurred to me that the unfortunate loser on one night was an unfortunate loser every night. Thank goodness for them.

One man who was very capable, but very seldom won was Bernard Murray.

He taught a lot of others and was one of Norman Morrell's right hand men at one time.

I think that they must have had a disagreement , because he went South to

DM land I believe.