Wrestling overseas today......

Wrestling overseas today………..

Well, as many of you know, I was always fascinated by the globe trotting lifestyle of our British Wrestlers. The tournaments in Germany, the tours in Japan, a stint in Canada, various trips to South Africa, dates in France, summers in Spain, long haul trips to Australia and New Zealand, and of course, the USA.

It always sounded so exotic, to me, in the 1970’s, when we had power cuts, and three day weeks, and strikes. Most people, when I was in the Junior school, still went to the British coastal towns for their summer holidays, package holidays to Spain were still in their infancy, and yet here were a bunch of men, who I saw wrestle live, who could be jetting off to all the countries listed above, and more, almost anytime they wanted to, and if they did a good job, they were invited back. Living a jet set life that someone else paid for.

When I first started reading the “On this day” posts, on this website, I didn’t think I could add anything of interest. I didn’t own any posters, because all my wrestling memorabilia has gone, for various reasons.

Then I started thinking about the globe-trotting exploits of our lads overseas, what were they doing “on this day”, when they were not over here?, who were they wrestling against, which promoter were they working for?, did they “win” any titles? (and if any of us didn’t attend a wrestling show, “on this day”, who were we watching on TV?).

So here we are, just over 500 overseas results, so far.

I started out thinking I would post once a week, but then decided to try and add a result “on this day”, every day, for a month, then 3 months, then six months, then I decided I would try and get to 365 days (including Christmas Day and New Years Day), which I did, and then thought I would try for 500 consecutive results, which happened about 8 days ago.

I’ve loved doing it, and it has been fascinating, finding results for Bert Assirati and Chick Knight, in India, finding an advert for the “Russian Tag Team Champions”, Tibor and his brother, “Veidor” Szakacs, wrestling in France, finding an advert for the “World Tag Team Champions”, Al Hayes and Ray Hunter, in Italy.

Finding out that Chris Adams won (and lost a few months later) the WWF Light Heavyweight championship in Mexico. Finding out that Dangerous Danny Lynch wrestled as Ivan Borienkoff, in Greece (“The Russian World Champion”), finding out that 1960’s “Russian” villain, Yuri Borienko was actually Polish immigrant Jan Kadlubowski, finding footage of Steve (William) Regal wrestling against Tiger Dalibir Singh, in South Africa. Finding out that in the 1960’s, so many of our lads went for a working holiday in Spain. And much, much more.

As Covid starts to hopefully pass, I will start to commence travelling again (for work), and that means I will have less time for this, so I probably won’t be posting an overseas result every day, but will still chip in occasionally.

I hope some of you found the results interesting.