Some did it regularly,often one bout masked.Some did it when other wrestlers failed to show.Remember Count Bartelli and Tony StClair wrestling 3 times in one show on separate occasions.Of course it does also happen in tournaments.Your memories please.
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I'm with Anglo and Powerlock. I think I only witnessed one no - show and in place of Lee Sharron, who was billed to fight Earl Maynard, the substitute was Ian Campbell!!
In my punting days I recall Eric Taylor regularly working both as himself and in the bonnet; usually back then as the Outlaw but later as both The Exorcist and Le Masque Argent. When he wrestled younger son Dave Taylor it was as The Exorcist but I recall him wrestling older son Steve without the mask with Steve doing a name change and appearing as Steve Mc.Cormack.
When I started promoting Eddie Rose, Ian Wilson and Pete Lindberg would wrestle as themselves and also as Le Diable Rouge on the same bill. Al Miquet went a step further with two masks. I recall promoting a show at The Parr Hall, Warrington, in which he appeared as himself, as Kung Fu and as the villainous Kamikaze all on the same night. Usually if a wrestler worked as themselves and then in the bonnet it was pay and a half.
One wrestler who would not do this was Mike Jordan. He was happy to wrestle twice, bonnet or otherwise (he was an early Kung Fu until a promoter unwisely booked him with Hamil as The Kung Fu Fighters. Whilst he was showering after the bout, Hamil took a knife to his Kung Fu outfit and sliced it to ribbons. I have to add that neither Hamil nor Jordan told me that story but it was widely circulated at the time and many wrestlers were wary of crossing Hamil) but he wanted double fee not fee and a half.
I recall Bobby Barron promoting a show where a worker had failed to show so Barron sent out Mickey Gold in a bonnet. Gold had appeared earlier in the card as himself. He had a prominent gait and an even more prominent nose. I recall him making his way to the ring under his masked persona with cries of, "Hello Mickey, how ya doing?" coming from all sides of the auditorium. Mickey was billed often as Jewish light-heavyweight champion and I recall him getting into a mild altercation with Steve Peacock one night and Peacock declaring to him, "When you were circumcised, they threw away the best bit."
JIM STOCKDALE did this quite a bit-2nd Bout as BLUE ANGEL-4th Bout as Himself!!
Same routine for BARRY DOUGLAS-Himself and BATTLESTAR!
Also from Memory-early '60's-BLACK MASK and BERT NUTTALL and
THE MASK and SANDY ORFORD!
Think the last 2 was to throw the Punters 'off the scent'!!
MAIN MASK
I can't remember a double up on a joint show in Newcastle. what generally happened was if we had a drop out Black Jack Mulligan stepped in.
None of this in Dale Martin Land. Your stories make me weep.
about 20 years ago we had a show in Newcastle a mix of stars in their eyes wrestlers (WWF knock offs) and originals including Drew McDonald who for some reason was billed ands French Canadian with ands name to match. it was a fake that doubled up wrestling the first half as Kane and Second half as the Undertaker. we were informed at the beginning of the Royal rumble that Kane was injured and would be unable to take part
Barry Douglas regularly appeared twice on the same bill once in a mask and once without and fooled no one
I remember Alan Miquet wrestling as himself in Inverness and then in the second half reappearing as the masked Kung Fu. It was my Mother that spotted the bodily similarities between both wrestlers.