Very interesting, thank you so much, Ron for doing the hard work of researching all this to give pleasure to the ret of us. What amazes me is the fact that it was worth all the long journeys to Caernarfon on dark winter's nights. The journey must have been even longer before the A55 coast road was improved. I can understand it during the summer when the nights were lighter and there would be tourists to fill the hall. Presumably the good people of Caernarfon turned out in big enough numbers to make the exercise financially profitable and to send Kendo and co home feeling their efforts had been rewarded!

Happy Christmas, Adrian. Maybe we will get to meet again in 2025 at another Kendo evening or a reunion Thanks for your friendship and all the interesting posts - especially the Kendo related ones

Thank you, Adrian, which reunions do you attend?

Happy Birthday to Kendo and thanks to Adrian for reminding us all. What a shame I never got to chat to you Adrian, on that evening when we were both meeting Kendo at the event in Stretford. I am, embarrassingly, on one of the You Tube clips of the event, when he was demonstrating holds on that unfortunate young man with too much to say!

I have that poster too!

I always enjoyed seeing Monty at Liverpool Stadium in the Brian Dixon days. He was usually the blue eye but occasionally the villain. He was never, as far as I remember, the top of the bill but was a very significant part of the show who always seemed to perfectly fulfil the roles he had

First Class Wrestling in conjunction with All Star Promotions are running weekly shows at Rhyl Town Hall this summer (2024). The shows are running every Tuesday evening over 6 weeks . I attended the 3rd show on Tuesday. James Mason was involved (wrestling and helping run the show) as was Danny Collins (working backstage). Apparently Tony St Clair was present the previous week.

I remember Marty Jones taking exception to a comment from a young man in the audience, I think it was in Cannock. Marty left the ring to "have a word" with the gentleman in question. This seemed unusual as Marty was a "blue eye" at the time, Marty must have been particularly offended at whatever was said. At Liverpool Stadium in summer 1978 an angry mob broke off from watching a rather boring match to chase the Masked Outlaw (Kevin Cawley?) as he was leaving the building.

Yes, there were a few rather obscure wrestlers on the Reslo TV shows, but some went on to wrestle more widely eg. Gary Clwyd/Welsh and Boston Blackie who often appeared on Brian Dixon's shows in the 1990s.

I found the same thing, only an short excerpt. Fortunately I have the whole thing on a DVD

Many Thanks!

Would it have been Ezra who was the Zulu appearing at Liverpool Stadium for Brian Dixon in 1978? The Zulu was one of the finalists for the vacant World Middleweight Championship (the title Adrian Street had been stripped of) in May 1978

Yes, they had obviously fallen on hard times since their Madison Square Garden days (!) and needed some guidance as to how to cope with bossy ladies.

it is an excellent documentary, and somewhat poignant given Klondyke Bill's sad premature death

There was a podcast interview with Mal Mason which was recorded just before his sad death. In one part he went into quite a lot of detail about being involved in running the camp shows with Brian - probably during the late 1970s from the references. Apparently at that time there were three teams running camp shows in different parts of the country - one headed up by Mal, one by Brian Dixon and one by Roy Bull Davis. Each team would run the camp shows - 2 or 3 on most days - as well as evening shows in nearby seaside town resorts. At the end of the week on Friday they all met up at Liverpool Stadium for a debrief and to be given the money to pay the wrestlers expense and wages for the following week. Presumably none of the camps had wrestling shows on Friday night as it was the campers last night before going home on the Saturday. Mal Mason apparently had a caravan which he would drive down to a site somewhere in the South West and would stay there as his base for the whole 10 week summer season. Many wrestlers today who went on the camps circuit in their early days said that there was no better training as it was the only context in which you would get to work at least three matches a day every day for 10 weeks. Brian Danielson/Daniel Bryan writes in his book that if Brian Dixon had paid enough he would quite gladly have stayed in the UK and worked on the camps for the rest of his career as it was the most fun he had every had in the wrestling business

Fascinating stuff, I can't wait to read more about Wryton and their development from Ron, Paul and BKendo

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"