Seeing Ian Muir in the newsletter made me think of this.
Joe Murphy
Kendo Nagasaki
... and of course John Naylor.
Any others?
I have a hunch that some of these scowlers were much more smiley “in real life”.
Quite hard never to smile when opponents’ and spectators’ antics must have been amusing.
Streiger had the odd outing with Dale Martins. The Manchester bill for Chetham Public Hall may well have been Streigers debut. The People exposure of 1965 stated that 8 years previously the Cheetham Hall was raising money for the Jewish Community and someone came up with the idea of calling Clark Mellor Schrager and shouting some German with Nazi salutes. It was arranged that he would be thrown from the ring and take a heavy loss to give the crowd justice.
From then on they tweaked the name and kept the gimmick. Don't know if Jefferson remained the opponent but the opponent was set up to be Jewish.
All fair game in 1965.