Some Wrestling Arenas were Iconic and continually well attended by Wrestling Fans!
One such was BIRMINGHAM'S EMBASSY SPORTSDROME!!
This Great Venue bore Witness to some Classic and Memorable Shows in Wrestling's
Heyday in this Country!!-The Man responsible for putting BIRMINGHAM on the
Wrestling Map was CONRAD DAVIS-General Manager at the 'DROME who a bit like
PAUL LINCOLN before him 'Foresaw' the rising Popularity of the Sport and started
bringing the Great Wrestling Stars of the day to the EMBASSY!!But a 'True' Business
Man he still maintained the Bingo Nites!!
Who saw shows at the SPORTSDROME??-Picture/Programme to follow!!
MAIN MASK
With such excellent contests why did Professional Wrestling end at this venue?
Great find, Hack! Howes putting Two Rivers over magnificently.
How civilized these posters are - putting the year on! Give Conrad an award for that alone!
Funnily enough I just nominated Stan Rylands as a long-serving ref and up he pops on the vid.
I do share your enthusiasm for the care that has gone into the poster layout, Main Mask. And all so very important as a sales tool to put bums on seats.
I see the blue handbill has "71" written on it but that's not the year. As well as Maiva (sic) and Bull Davies, decimal coinage had gone by then.
The Sportsdrome hadn't long closed down when I moved to Birmingham and have to admit I had heard of neither Conrad Davis or the Sportsdrome at that time. These are ll Joint shows but Conrad did flit about between Joint and the independents.
Here is Billy Two Rivers at the Sportsdrome in 1963
By the time I moved to Birmingham wrestling had finished at the Sportsdrome. My Thursday night fix was at another splendid venue, the Digbeth Civic Hall.
Conrad Davis was quite a character by all accounts. He stopped Dwight J Ingleburgh from shaving off his beard until he had time to arrange a loser to shave off beard match.
I taught in Sparkbrook for four years, a great place - home of the Balti.