Jim Green is no longer on the fifties list but still on this list

Some very fascinating articles here

On another thread recently it was agreed that in Morecambe in July with the late sunsets, a venue easily accessible to visitors and pubs closing before midnight that an event at midnight would have a certain amount of appeal. Every year in the States during Wrestlemania week Indy Promoters hold midnight events that are choc a block.As with Morecambe in the 1960s greatly helped by large numbers of visitors and accessible venues

I know this thread is supposed to be restricted to the UK but during a recent visit to Philadelphia I attended Indy Pro Wrestling Events at two rather unusual venues. One was at a still active Episcopalian{Church of England}Church. All the seating is cleared and it is used for a variety of popular cultural events using the dual purpose title of Trinity Centre for Urban Life. The other venue is a Fire House{Station}.The bar attached to the station is also used for a variety of events and is festooned with posters from Opera Philadelphia's visits to Italy including the small community of Pieve near Venice .At this event the wrestlers fought without a ring!

The action looks particularly intense in this match

His final TV match broadcast in May 1988 is on You Tube. Walton tells us he turned Pro in the seventies!Not sure what fans who saw him live thirty years earlier in 1958 would say to that

Congratulations and belated Happy Easter

Seem to recall Finlay emerged victorious over Rocco more often than not

Heavyweight Championship of the World in Walsall would have been sensational in the mid 1930s

In the commentary for his 1981 fight versus Steve Casey of Boston we are told King Ben is 13st 5lbs

At least in this era there was no concern that photos were digitally altered!

Top Class programmes made all the more exciting being under the rules of the New York Stata Athletic Commission

Her entry in the promoters section fizzles out in 1936.Perhaps it could be extended to include the later years?

A source of regret that Welsh Channel Four events never found their way to Channel Four in the rest of the UK

On an optimistic note considering the fifties are now 65 years in the past twenty survivors is quite good

Mohammed definitely wins the prize for known and acknowledged children

A reminder that there were some excellent matches right to the end

Quite unusual to have a bill of four main events of equal standing

Top of the programme tells us "Worlds Leading Wrestlers Contracted"

Very serious definition of responsibilities of the ref