I think the last time I saw Brian Maxine wrestle was in 2007 on an LDN bill. I definitely saw him do a title defence against Blondie Barratt in 1999 or 2000, by which time he must have been past 60!

On one of the Screensport shows at Hanley, someone (Mark Rocco, IIRC) hurls their opponent into what Maxton/Vince refers to as the hospital radio commentator's table, which would fit with Ron's cutting below.

@Powerlock these shows aired in about 1991, I think. Kate wasn't really wrestling but acting as manager to the tag team who took on a well past his best Daddy and (I think) Tony Stewart.

I watched that Oldham tag bout again the other night and Bobby does seem to take some heavy blows from Kirk and Harris. It also has a slightly odd ending - Shirley sets up the double elbow backdrop finisher on Mal, but the latter seems to get cold feet and moves to one side. Mal then gets up and climbs out of the ring, getting counted out in the process. I wonder if this was a hasty bit of improvisation?

Thanks alanapally - what a great find. It's nice to see Wigan's Golden Ace branching out into doing horoscopes as well! I'm also intrigued that the WOS listing says that 'some or all of the following bouts' will be shown. Were the matches still going out live at this point, hence the uncertainty about who and what might appear?

Very sad news. He was a great heel, and it's always saddened me that I started going to live shows just a little too late to see him in action.

He also did a piece to camera at the start of the tournament celebrating 25 years of ITV's wrestling coverage in 1980.

"I asked you to make me look like the British Bulldog, not an actual bulldog!"

I do wonder how things might have been if, instead of Daddy being set up as the principal conqueror of Quinn, we'd seen a blue-eye(ish) turn from Stax. I imagine audiences would have cheered him in on the way that, in later years, they backed him against Kendo. And it surely would have been a bit more credible than seeing Mighty John going down to Shirley?

Any ideas as to who this version of Klondike Kate was? It's obviously a good ten years or so before Jane Porter adopted that moniker.

In Simon Garfield's book, Mal Sanders talks about losing a pint or so of blood after catching himself on the apron of the ring and hitting an artery. A ringside punter apparently suffered a heart attack whilst witnessing it.

Didn't Marty Jones suffer quite a nasty arm injury during a cage match at Croydon in the 1990s?

Here's a nice and very detailed tribute to Mark from the Manchester Evening News: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-lad-who-came-homes-18741839

Wasn't there a plan to have Spiros Arion drop his world heavweight title to Shirley, but he refused, hence why he lost it to Wayne Bridges?

Given what has been said about Mick's status, it surprises me that he and the Iron Man agreed to be Big Daddy fall guys for what turned out to be their last TV appearance. Obviously this was in period where Shirley seemed to be defeating every major heel, but it seems odd that two of the seemingly toughest wrestlers in the business agreed to get belly butted and splashed.

Jack Pye and a few other grapplers make a cameo appearance in Frank Randle's film It's A Grand Life.

I think WWF only really became big in the UK once Sky started showing it in the very late 80s (although ITV obviously showed a few bouts towards the end of their coverage). As several posters had said already, if All Star had got their matches aired five or so years earlier than they did, things might have been a bit different. Joint became much too much reliant on Daddy, and he really should have bowed out in 1982 or thereabouts - after that it was just endless repetition and diminishing returns. I'm really glad there's so much Reslo footage available, as it captured the likes of Rocco and others during the period after they'd jumped ship from Joint but before Brian got his bouts on ITV.

I've got Tiptoe... on a CD compilation. It's actually not that bad, although didn't make any impression on the charts! The flip side was a reworked version of When The Saints Go Marching In.

As quoted in Simon Garfield's book, the cabinet minister Dick Crossman gave an account of a meeting with the Queen where she described with relish a bout she'd just been watching on TV. And in the same tome, Stax mentioned that Macca used to come to some shows with his son James.

I always get the impression that the surfboard was very painful if applied properly, and carried a greater risk of causing physical damage that some of the other submission holds. Anything involving the base of the neck/top of the spine always looked painful and dangerous. In the WOS bout between Billy Robinson and Lee Bronson, the former does a sort of reverse headlock which then transforms into him dropping down so that Bronson's neck makes forceful contact with Billy's shoulder. It looks absolutely agonising!