Thank you, Ron, I am so grateful to you for this. I will see if I can work myself up to writing an article for the site based on some of my experiences at Liverpool Stadium. Many Thanks again Peter

Thank you Ron, I would be very interested in seeing those adverts again from the Liverpool Echo, particularly from the Wrestling Enterprises era (mid 1977 - 1983) if there is any way of enabling this to happen. No problem if this isn't possible, and thanks for all your research and for sharing it

I think that the real answer to this is unknown. Without wishing to cast too much doubt on the morals of the wrestlers there is always the possibility of unplanned pregnancy arising from illicit encounters round the back of the town hall.

Quite a few of us clergy people are fans who love wrestling and who, along with many other people, find release from the stress of daily life and work through spending two hours shouting at someone who enjoys being shouted at, and, as the modern saying goes, "suspending our disbelief"

Barry certainly kept working hard right to the end of his career. I remember him often being a substitute on Brian Dixon and Max Crabtree shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Always a solid wrestling contest from a true professional

Happy Christmas to all. Thanks to all who work so hard to maintain and develop the site. Thanks to everyone who posts here. All the best for 2023.

Hi Adrian/Main Mask, I hadn't realised it was you sitting in front of me! We could indeed have had a good chat, I noticed Kendo and yourself deep in conversation. Maybe next time...

I am trying to work out the conection between the buildings in the thread "D.M.’s H.Q. looks a nice piece of real estate" described as 309-303 Brixton Road. (formerly nos. 1 to 3 Brixton Ville). and the buildings above - cab anyone please enlighten me?

Fascinating. I wonder if anyone (eg members of the Dale family) lived there or whether it was purelu a business premises. Presumably they would need plenty of space for all the admin connected with running such a big promotion. Am I correct that they did their own printing? I believe their gym was separate - Nursery Road?

Many thanks for these, Ron. Yes, you were correct, the Maivia/Joyce match was on 27th October. 3rd March 1965 is the earliest show I could track down at Hindley. The information I have comes from the appendix of Stephen Greenfield and Mark DeCourcy's book on Billy Riley. They list results from the careers of wrestlers from Riley's gym - results they credit to Ray Plunkett

By coincidence I was just re reading that section in Orig's book this morning! I wonder how many of the Welsh words used to describe the holds in Reslo were hastily made up names? My Welsh speaking relatives in North Wales feel similarly to Orig about the trendy Welsh speakers and the Welsh government in Cardiff. They have never managed to give me an English translation of the commentary during Reslo.

Interesting point, but do we know how many Welsh speaking viewers watched it on S4C? The existence of the Welsh 4th channel was based on there being an audience of Welsh speakers who would watch it. There could have been tens of thousands of Welsh speakers watching the original screening and repeats. How does this compare with the number of non Welsh speaking wrestling fans in Wales and the English speaking viewers in the other areas that it could be picked up in (eg. Merseyside, parts of Ireland)? For me as a non Welsh speaker I quickly learned to understand some of the commentary from the repeated words, eg names of holds etc. The emotion and expression in the commentators' voices also conveyed a lot. The funniest thing was poor Brian Dixon (RIP) having to learn to count to ten in Welsh!

Remember it well - I was living in Aberystwyth at the time and having wrestling on TV twice a week was a great novelty!

John Lister's ITV Wrestling website correctly states that Reslo started in 1982 whereas "1985 A year of Wrestling" here on Wrestling Heritage incorrectly states that it began in 1985.

Lovely to hear those comments from Steve Irwin, who I think is Steve Adonis - a bright and much loved star on Brian's shows for several years. Brian was the foundation for my growing interest in wrestling as a teenager. The first show I attended was at Liverpool Stadium in 1978 and I went there regularly until 1982. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, All Star was the place to go for top quality British wrestling and I enjoyed the All Star shows at Hanley, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport etc. Brian was always friendly to me as a fan and I an grateful to have known him. My condolences to his family at this sad time.

Yes, indeed, Yasu Fuji toured the UK in 1980 - 1981, appearing several times on TV and working for Joint Promotions before moving over to the Independent Promoters. I vividly remember him wrestling at Liverpool Stadium in June 1981. He played the role of the villain and was an excellent, skilful wrestler. Best wishes to you and your family

There was a short period around 2014 - 2016 when wrestling did take place again in Morecambe Winter Gardens. This was promoted (under the names Paid Promotions and Alpha Omega Wrestling) by Greg Lambert, local journalist, wrestling MC/Commentator and author. The word I heard was that the cost of using in the building was too high for them and they switched venues to the Carleton Inn. I thoroughly enjoyed attending wrestling for a short time in such a historic building even though it was still at the early stages of restoration.

Also, "Dynamite & Davey" by Steven Bell is well researched and seems accurate, as far as one can tell. "El Bandito" by Orig Williams is a great read and has some fascinating comments by people like John Quinn, Tony St Clair, Eddie Rose, etc etc at the end. One can't really argue with "Have a Good Week" by John Lister as it is based on a series of interviews with nearly all the surviving greats of British Wrestling which originally appeared as articles in Fighting Spirit Magazine. "Billy Riley - The Man, The Legacy" by Stephen Greenfield and Mark de Courcy is an amazing tome on one of the founding fathers of British Wrestling before and during "our era".

I think that Bret Hart's and the Dynamite Kid's books are more believable than most. The fact that Bret kept a diary means that his accounts are not based purely on memory. There are, naturally, only brief sections about the British scene which reduces its interest for many of us here.

Glad you were there and enjoyed it too, nightlight. Maybe Kendo/Peter will do another session. I did have a few questions up my sleeve but didn't manage to attract his attention at the right moment! I would have asked him about some of the opponents he regularly worked with in the 1960s and 1970s and also how it was working in Joint Promotions when the individual promoters had their quite different ways of operating. I know we have heard a bit about his experiences with Dale Martin, Relwyskow & Green and his comments about Norman Morrell but I would like to have learned more about Arthur Wright and Wryton Promotions and how Kendo found them to work for.