Steve Wright was a brilliant wrestler. I saw him at Morecambe in 1971 when, as a 17 year old, he drew with the hard and experienced welterweight Alan Woods.
he does look like former animal Hilton Valentine, I worked with Hilton for about 4 months in 1990, a nice guy, very quiet, Hilton lives in the states now.
It is The Wrestler from August 1964, on the front cover is Bob Taylor and Johnny Apollo, with many articles inside featuring Lindy Caulder, Bronco Jack Cassidy, Lew Roseby, Alan Colbeck and several others.
I have a copy of an old magazine which contains an article about Lee Flash Edwards which i think is the same magazine. I will try and find it for further details
The major star of Joe Smith Promotion was famous Peter Gotz, who held championships at various weight classes in that promotion. There's a good chance that Arthur Wright of Wryton purchased that old belt from Gotz.
Looking at the Steve Wright page on my site, I see that the belt to which you refer is the same one shown in the article on the next line. The article refers to Steve being the "holder of the open belt championship" and also the "Gustl Kaiser tournaments", so maybe the belt is from there? I foolishly got myself into the position of having to add captions to all the photographs on the site, and "The Champion" sounds to me like one I would have chosen purely because he is holding a belt. I don't know of a magazine called "The Champion", and I don't remember where the photograph came from. I would guess it's from "The Wrestler" of April 1972, but I don't have that to hand at the moment.
At least we can put to bed any thoughts of a magazine called Champion.
you just said exactly what I said but in a different words...you won't find Morell running his own world or euro championships...he recognized those of Relws...just like Relws recognized British champs Morells company had. they all belonged to the same joint company...BUT guess what...Oakeley didn't belong to that company so obviously he had his own home and international championships and didn't care for what Morells & Relws did.
Either I misunderstand Ruslan or he is off the mark.
If you relate champions to a company then the idea of Morrell and British champs, Relwyskow International champs falls down.
Morrell, Relwyskow, Wryton and Dale Martin all belonged to one company, Joint Promotions. They shared the championships. The "home champions" worked and defended their titles for Morrell, Wryton, Dale Martin and Relwyskow. Same with the "international champions," just as likely to be working for Morrell, Wryton or Dale Martin as Relwyskow. All the Joint Promotion members met once a month in Leeds to discuss and plan developments, including championship arrangements. The Dale Martin British champions pre-dated the formation of Joint Promotions. When Joint Promotions were formed they ended their champions and recognised the same ones as Relwyskow, Morrell, and Wryton. As other members have commented The Wryton title was of no significance. Even the people who were there can't remember it. Wryton recognised the same British and international champions as Morrell, Relwyskow and Dale Martin.
I see what you are saying Hack, R. Plummer shared some of his collectibles with the owner of that website Chris. But we can see, "The Wrestler", "Who's who" and "The Champion"...all three mentioned the same way...as the wrestling publications.
Standing with belt April 1972 (My copy has the back page missing which is why I couldn't locate it when you asked last night.
You took the photo from The Wrestling Furnace site. All photos on that page were taken from copies of The Wrestler that Russell Plummer loaned to Chris the website owner.
I think the caption "The Champion" just refers to Steve wearing a belt. Earlier threads found general agreement that Steve was never a champion in Britain, unless you call the Wryton tournament winner a champion, which I wouldn't.
I'd now be even more surprised if there was a magazine called "The Champion" which just happened to have the same three photos.
Steve Wright was a brilliant wrestler. I saw him at Morecambe in 1971 when, as a 17 year old, he drew with the hard and experienced welterweight Alan Woods.
Great to see Steve Wright, I watched one of his bouts earlier on YouTube, and he was fantastic.
Wright looks like the guitar player from the animals
It is The Wrestler from August 1964, on the front cover is Bob Taylor and Johnny Apollo, with many articles inside featuring Lindy Caulder, Bronco Jack Cassidy, Lew Roseby, Alan Colbeck and several others.
I have a copy of an old magazine which contains an article about Lee Flash Edwards which i think is the same magazine. I will try and find it for further details
The major star of Joe Smith Promotion was famous Peter Gotz, who held championships at various weight classes in that promotion. There's a good chance that Arthur Wright of Wryton purchased that old belt from Gotz.
We've had a message from Chris at http://www.wrestlingfurnace.site/
Looking at the Steve Wright page on my site, I see that the belt to which you refer is the same one shown in the article on the next line. The article refers to Steve being the "holder of the open belt championship" and also the "Gustl Kaiser tournaments", so maybe the belt is from there? I foolishly got myself into the position of having to add captions to all the photographs on the site, and "The Champion" sounds to me like one I would have chosen purely because he is holding a belt. I don't know of a magazine called "The Champion", and I don't remember where the photograph came from. I would guess it's from "The Wrestler" of April 1972, but I don't have that to hand at the moment.
At least we can put to bed any thoughts of a magazine called Champion.
so yeah looks like The Champion was the actual publication...research continues.
you just said exactly what I said but in a different words...you won't find Morell running his own world or euro championships...he recognized those of Relws...just like Relws recognized British champs Morells company had. they all belonged to the same joint company...BUT guess what...Oakeley didn't belong to that company so obviously he had his own home and international championships and didn't care for what Morells & Relws did.
Either I misunderstand Ruslan or he is off the mark.
If you relate champions to a company then the idea of Morrell and British champs, Relwyskow International champs falls down.
Morrell, Relwyskow, Wryton and Dale Martin all belonged to one company, Joint Promotions. They shared the championships. The "home champions" worked and defended their titles for Morrell, Wryton, Dale Martin and Relwyskow. Same with the "international champions," just as likely to be working for Morrell, Wryton or Dale Martin as Relwyskow. All the Joint Promotion members met once a month in Leeds to discuss and plan developments, including championship arrangements. The Dale Martin British champions pre-dated the formation of Joint Promotions. When Joint Promotions were formed they ended their champions and recognised the same ones as Relwyskow, Morrell, and Wryton. As other members have commented The Wryton title was of no significance. Even the people who were there can't remember it. Wryton recognised the same British and international champions as Morrell, Relwyskow and Dale Martin.
I see what you are saying Hack, R. Plummer shared some of his collectibles with the owner of that website Chris. But we can see, "The Wrestler", "Who's who" and "The Champion"...all three mentioned the same way...as the wrestling publications.
All those photos are from The Wrestler magazine:
v Jon Lapaque November 1971, page 18
v Steve Wright June 1972, page 18
Standing with belt April 1972 (My copy has the back page missing which is why I couldn't locate it when you asked last night.
You took the photo from The Wrestling Furnace site. All photos on that page were taken from copies of The Wrestler that Russell Plummer loaned to Chris the website owner.
I think the caption "The Champion" just refers to Steve wearing a belt. Earlier threads found general agreement that Steve was never a champion in Britain, unless you call the Wryton tournament winner a champion, which I wouldn't.
I'd now be even more surprised if there was a magazine called "The Champion" which just happened to have the same three photos.
The Wrestler of April, 1972 featured the same famous Steve Wright photo.
I don't recall it Ruslan. have you any more information?