Whenever televised wrestling came from Sheffield, I recall Kent Walton reminding us that the back elbow was banned in the city.

My Kamikaze was Al Miquet ( who also wrestled as himself, as Kung Fu, refereed and put up the ring - but not all on the same night! Although there was one night at The Parr Hall in Warrington where he put up the ring for me then proceeded to wrestle in all three guises. I did the refereeing).

When Rita, Bobby Barron's wife, first starting wrestling she appeared as Gypsy Sarah. She took the name Sarah because that was the name of their daughter, who later wrestled a few bouts herself. One night in Runcorn I had Bobby Barron and Adrian Street tagging together (against Pedro The Gypsy and Max Raeger) and the two wives wrestling each other. Adrian's wife wrestled as Blackfoot Sioux. From that moment on Rita also wanted to be a Red Indian so binned Gypsy Sarah in favour of Apache Princess.

Thank you

Around this time I was a student at Leicester and the university held a rag week fund-raiser consisting of a wrestling show featuring a stripper. The promoter was Klondyke Jake. As soon as the stripper came into the ring and started her routine, the lights went off. A group of militant female students had got to the power supply. Jake climbed into the ring and gave a little speech failing to understand why these ladies would stop another beautiful lady from earning a living. He urged us all to surround the ring with our lighters and the girl continued with her routine. It also reminds me of the limerick:- There was a young lady called Sally, Who stripped at the local men's palais, She pulled down her draws To tremendous applause, But the hair on her head didn't tally.

I'll go along with that theory.

I'd not heard of Hussey v Rocco before but,at The Civic Hall, Bollington, I promoted Harry Palin v Steve Kennedy (son John Palin, later Dave Duran). I remember Orig promoting Eric Taylor v Steve Mc.Cormack (his son, Steve Taylor) and his other son, Dave Taylor, fighting under his real name with dad appearing as The Exorcist on Brian Dixon shows.

Les Kellett, Jackie Pallo, George Kidd, Kendo Nagasaki, "Sir" Alan Garfield, Lord Bertie Topham, "Romeo" Joe Critchley, George "The Animal" Steele, Mae Young.

There once was a girl from Peru, And ballet she nightly would do, She dreamed of going to England, To dance for the good people there, So she stowed away on a liner, For this girl, she hadn't the fare, But the ship, it capsized in the ocean, And the young girl was cast o adrift, When a pigeon called Percy, he found her, And her, he began friends, to lift, He carried her over to England And her dancing skills she showed, But the ballet companies turned her down, For she was pigeon-towed.

Merry Christmas

It's a long time ago but I have vague memories of calling in there. I think it was called "The Helvetian".

Thank you. I totally missed these two. Perhaps Johnny Rainbow only came out after it had been raining.

Bernard Bradford and Johnny Rainbow are new ones on me.

My heart never sank when I saw "Tug" Holton on a programme. I particularly recall him up against Shirley Crabtree in a Morrell and Beresford show at Leicester's De Montfort Hall in the mid-seventies and he put up a really good show.

If I recall correctly, she took her own life in an incident involving a bath and an electric fire. I was only very young but I remember the ladies in their best dresses and the gents in full evening dress. Eamonn Andrews hosted and the regulars were Lady Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Gilbert Harding and either David Nixon or Richard Murdoch. Much later the show came to ITV and Lee Bamber was one of the contestants. Penelope Keith hosted. I remember Acker Bilk as a guest panellist. His first question was, "What do you do for a job?"

I never spoke to Steve Best but saw him wrestle many times. I saw him against Saint on a Max Crabtree show at the Gaiety Theatre, Rhyl, and saw him many times in tag with Johnny. Most memorably, I recall them going up against The Borg Twins in a fast-moving affair for Morrell/Beresford at Nottingham Ice Rink. Rest In Peace.

That was the whole purpose of donning the mask!

I believe that, in an attempt to fool the tax man, Josef Locke appeared in later years in a mask as Mr.X. There's certainly a wrestling connection there. To answer the question, there are quite a few examples. From America, George "The Animal" Steele, and from this country. "Sir" Alan Garfield.

I'm sorry to hear this. As I've contributed previously, I think his TV outing as Adnan Al-Kaissie against Lenny Hurst is an outstanding piece of work.

If I recall correctly (although I was not present) the tag match mentioned was held at Liverpool Stadium and Kellett's surprise partner was Gargantua (Jim Moran). When Crabtree first took control of Joint I recall a match between good referee (Bryan Crabtree) versus bad referee (Karl Kramer aka Jack Land). I don't think I was the only one in the auditorium hoping that Land would give Crabtree a good pasting. Alas, it was not to be!