In todays (11 October 2025) Daily Telegraph a sports writer spent an afternoon watching sports broadcasts from Saturday 12 October 1985 Pro Wrestling came from High Wycombe and included a very decent match between Johnny Wilson and Tom Tyrone. Kent Walton tells us Wilson must be feeling off colour and Tyrone subsequently wins. As both wrestlers are still in the land of the living hope they get to view the article

At the Electric Ballroom in Camden this weekend Marty Jones presented the award for all the effort Roy Wood has made running the Snakepit in Wigan.It was at the Josh Barnett Bloodsport/Progress event. Roy was given a standing ovation.

These days some promotions have male versus female matches.Did this ever happen in the "Golden Era" ?

It was announced in Rhyl last Tuesday evening that All Star will be returning to St Georges Hall this coming 24January 2026 for the first time in this century

Rev Pro Wrestling are starting events at Porchester Hall in Bayswater from next month The present venue in Great Portland St is becoming too expensive. It must be quite a few years since Porchester Hall was last used for Pro Wrestling

At a recent event in Balham there was some swearing from the wrestlers. It occurred to me that during "the Golden Era" I do not recall any bad language at all.Was this just because it was forbidden by the promoters? Or just confined to the dressing room

BBC 4 have repeated the Just Another Day documentary from 1985 about the Soho district of London. Quite near the beginning there is an interview with prominent MC Frankie Blake.Talking mainly about the prostitutes living nearby rather than wrestling. Available on I Player

The 1962 documentary Pop goes the Easel featuring big wrestling fan artist Peter Blake is presently being repeated on BBC4, The wrestling clip is cut out of the repeat but is now available in full on You Tube

Merry Christmas to all members of this forum. Thanks for all the interesting and informative contributions in the year drawing to a close

The Times newspaper today(13 December 2024) has an obituary for Brian Maxine.

Donald Trump has nominated former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to be Secretary of Education when he takes office next January

One of his sons Jody Kristofferson was an Indy Pro wrestler in the States a few years ago.He has several matches on You Tube

Alan Wood has a couple of very good matches on You Tube.The A-Z entry does not state if he is still alive. If he is he could be added to sixties greats still with us

Another post identifies Fred as a forties great still with us but he has not even got an A-Z entry.What do we know about him?

Hulk Hogan will appear at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this evening alongside Donald Trump. One republican delegate compared the event with Wrestlemania

Recently at a live event in Liverpool a wrestler picked up a member of the crowd[clearly a plant] and threw him into the chairs.This was quite shocking because it was unexpected. Did any members of this forum feel shocked by anything in a match in the Golden Era. I once heard a wrestler regarded as a gentleman of the ring use choice four letter words to an opponent in the corridor at Wolves Civic Hall which seemed quite shocking at the time

The BBC Archive You Tube Channel has reposted the Philpott documentary following the Klondykes.In a few hours it has already had over three thousand views and 156 votes of appreciation

The tribute to the late Mohammed Yakub reveals he had sixteen children. Is this a record? Have any other wrestlers equalled this or even come close?

Over forty years after turning professional Keith Myatt was back in the ring at the weekend.The(http://weekend.Th) venue was the Buttermarket in Shrewsbury and he faced LDN stalwart Alan Lee Travis

It is now half a century since the miners strike of 1974 and the subsequent power cuts.Doe(http://cuts.Do)s anyone on this forum recall what happened to Pro Wrestling events in this period.Were there cancellations or just delays until power was restored?