Start of interview 4 minutes. (I’ve not listened to it, so fingers crossed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo46denyr5Q

I fell over this when searching for a French wrestler, first name Ray. If you want to read the rest of the piece and more, just type the lasses name in your preferred search engine, as she appears to be a quite fascinating character, who is all over the Internet!

This Tiny! Wow! Mick McMac would tower over him!

I found these (1963) Belgian posters to be all over the place! A few well known wrestlers, and several, who? Floyd Patterson jnr. no, dates don’t add up. By that picture, an emancipated Baron. Craziest of all the Fargos were cowboys, you know, wearing cowboy gear, the guys borrowing the name this time around usually played Russians. The Vikings = Nick and Jerry Kozak, however those aren’t the Kozacs, that is Handsome Johnny Barend and Magnificent Maurice, (Buddy Rogers sidekicks especially in the New York area). Good old Chichi eh? Again, some names that Heritage members know. But, Ezzard Charles? We know that he, Jersey Joe and the Brown Bomber Joe Louis, reffed a few and of course Jack Dempsey virtually had a second career as Main Eventing as a referee, probably to the detriment of the wrestlers he appeared with (he was probably getting more dough than the workers, while putting few extra bottoms on seats). An aging Ezzard would be giving up a lotta, lotta weight to that masked man, (who could have been almost anyone) if that is indeed who he fought. C.von Kramer may have been Karl with a K., but the Blue Angel and Chichi pops up again? Once again, Nick Kozak looks as though he’s dropped thirty pounds of weight in the accompanying picture. At last, a modicum of sanity. Gilmour, Boscik and Jeff Kaye, in semi final position, on a six match card! Malmoa, I have no idea!

I hope I don’t get accused for misleading via the Down-Under reference! (Having seen both these two several times in the flesh, I wish I had seen this match-up)!

I believe it was Ron who posted a photo of the above author, of the above book, which subsequently made into a movie. I decided to read the book (I had seen and enjoyed the film a couple of times) and can recommend it. There is a whole other bunch of characters to be enjoyed as the wrestling story makes a fairly late appearance, but plays a prominent part in the lives of many. A couple of wrestling related passages below…….

One month later, one extra match isn’t it? Raise the ticket price boyo!

Say no more!

I hope the aggressor ‘socks’ is not contemplating a suplex on ‘boots’. (see wall). Maybe, boots reversed the hold. ( see his arm around sock’s head/neck). Yes, boots still has his arm wrapped around sock’s head/neck. What a guy!

Before Savage was a universal name, but still a good match / brawl. This and Ada’s match against Pallo jnr. are probably his best from the States and both are on YouTube.

If anyone is interested, you can view the above at the Internet Archive (no charge). The full card from Japan, AJPW New Year Wars 2025 Day 2 03 01 25. (pic. from the match, ring intro.

From a Ringsport issue. Melvyn is in the Heritage A-Z, but no picture? Bert’s in the A-Z. But who was Gentleman John? Sean O’Sullivan and Dave Carter ? Reading between the lines, Brian Trevor’s men?

Rex abroad, tournament as per Roy Fields. Look who he is up against in the bottom card. THE MAN himself! ( Carver Doone also engaged in a Main Event with Wladeck, in a far flung country).

Here I’m just hanging onto the coattails of two of the great wrestling historians of today, re-posting research by Ronald Grobpietsch and Phil Lions. There are several other fine historians, who are working tirelessly on digging up European wrestling however the two named have contributed to Heritage in the past. There is a huge amount of early European history that is now available on the web, however I’m not sure just how many of our Heritage members are interested in the European wrestlers who travelled the world, sometimes individually, sometimes in troupes and so, I can only reiterate that researching the research, laboriously done by others, that is now available (at no charge), is very rewarding, regardless of whether you are aware of the workers involved or not. Even Carver Doone, who might be considered as a freak side show, travelled a long way to wrestle in tournaments and like Roy Fields, met and was considered good enough to be given victories over some very good wrestlers. I hope some members enjoy the cards depicted and do some ‘digging’ of their own!