Pending The Ost’s findings I have discovered a bit more about Johnny Morgan. He seems to have been in the Welsh Guards and won the welterweight boxing championship. He fought Jackie Turpin as a pro and must have bulked up over the years. He was often billed as from NZ and was the ‘Australasian Heavyweight ‘ Champion. He was billed v Assirati at Seymour Hall on 14 November 1958 for Bert’s title and a side stake of £500 which I think is about £4,000 in today’s money and was the hall’s ‘the greatest programme yet’. This was when the top of the bill was paid about £10+. He also appeared a good deal at Belle Vue and for Jack Taylor and must have been useful because he defeated/ was allowed to defeat Gordienko. He wrote three books, the third The intruder about a crooked policeman and was described as realistic if devoid of literary merit. As for producing an expose, at one time, asked whether wrestling was showmanship. He said no more than any other sport. Anyone know anything more? Mike ?

While we are compiling lists what about one of wrestlers with names and soubriquets of, or billed as, birds and animals?`They can, of course, appear in other lists. For a start White Owl, Gray Owl, Johnny Eagles, Bengal Tigers ...

Prince Kumali once told me that travelling by boat to America, he became friendly with a crew member and when he was working in New York the man came to watch him. He was getting a hammering and the man climbed into the ring to help him. Does anyone remember incidents like this here and if so were they genuine or stooges?

Apart from the celebrated Preston-McManus incident were there any other major crosses people know of ?

There once was a wrestler - Jack Pye Whose hair in the ropes they would tie With no trouble at all He would fill any Hall Week in, week out - my oh my.

I believe the actor Lino Ventura wrestled as Lino Borrini. Does anyone have any details of his career and the injury which caused his retirement ? Thanks

I believe that when Ranolph Turpin died a charity tournament was put on for his widow and children. Does anyone have any details and who was on the bill ? Thanks

ON 20 February 1960 a young girl aged nine Iris Dawkins was stabbed to death in Southamptopn. A boy aged 10 was charged with her murder. He called an alibi that he was watching wrestling on ITV when two men fell out of the ring. It was checked and that did happen. He was acquitted. Does any know or can look up without too much trouble who was on the bill that afternoon? Many thanks

When I was very young and beards were, something of a rarity in the outside world a poster advertising a bearded wrestler —Ken Davies, Benny —indicated something very usual and therefore a villain who would get his beard pulled one hoped. Were there any bearded blue-eyes back in say the 60s and who was the first ?

was Camp and disgusting, Sorry abt typefaces.

Looking at the Cheshunt bill I believe Karloff was Kiwi KIngston but who were masquerading as Giovanni, Beldini and Andretti ?

We hear a great deal about shoot-outs and whether Nagasaki could/would/did beat Billy Robinson. But what exactly were they ? How were they decided? Fall/submissions/ exhaustion. Were they for training purposes or for clearing the air between two wrestlers in a private match? How often did they occur? Was there a referee? Help please.

There have been plenty of boxers turned wrestler but were any of them any good ? Or were they carried by their long suffering opponents? Jackie Turpin seems to have been one of the better ones. Any views ?

I've just been watching the violinist Andre Rieu and then a you tube of the singer Josef Locke. I thought both of them had the audience under total control from the moment they entered the stage. Which wrestlers had the same ability to control an audience whether favourable or hostile? Jack Pye certainly - he could do that from the dressing room - but which others ?

Around the 93 minute mark in Chariots of Fire there is a scene outside a Paris cafe with a Catch poster in the window. It seems to have the names of the wrestlers on it. One looked liked Bordes. I haven't the technical ability to read it by stopping the tape etc. Can anyone help please? The film is set in 1924 and I wonder if any posters survived from that period or if it was a mock-up.

Can anyone say what happened to Dave Larsen. The A-Z has him disappearing after a short career with Paul Lincoln. Did he ever appear as one of Lincoln's White Angels? He certainly went to Paris as Batman and if my French is correct he was also the villainous Zarak in a string of bouts with Walter Bordes. There's one on this week's Caida. Anyone know any more ?

Reading Eddie Rose's most interesting article I remember reading a story about a prominent (Australian?) wrestler who developed an eye disease from dirt on the ring canvas and went blind. Anyone know anything of this or am I misremembering ?

Watching the old 1961 film Freedom to die with Bruce Seton as a crooked wrestling promoter (could there be such a thing?} in his office there was a poster which seemed to be Marino v Two Rivers. I couldn't make out the rest of the bill or when it was. I presume it was genuine. There were also other bills which I could not make out. Anyone know anything about it? A bit after the start there was a wrestling sequence with two lightweights. Any ideas who they were ?

Wonderboy Watching an old 1953 film Th Blue Parrot in a cafe there is a poster for Wonderboy v Assirati. Also on the biill is Charlie Scott v Big Bill Verna (I think). Mike Hallinan tells me Wonderboy was Peter Stanley but he doesn't appear on the Heritage list. Can anyone say anything about him. He must have been useful (or a fool) to go in with Assirati.

Do I remember correctly that in one of his pre-Dr Death incarnations Paul Lincoln was a villainous Japanese after he stained his body with walnut juice. If so who was his tag partner?