I think their family purchased that old wryton belt, owned it and still has it. this is that exactly the same belt, obv put on a new leather background.

thanks appreciate. I do not recognize this belt...I don't think I ever seen it before?!

Yes Sir, precisely. Now that I finally learned my lesson...I became very sceptical, or maybe a better way to put it, I became summat more realistic about things esp when it comes to pro wrestling. Yes read this book, and found NO credible evidences of this person ever being an amateur of any level. He was a typical pro wrestling type guy. Thank You.

precious.

huh, what a pretty lady she apparently was...I totally would waltz her around.

I do not think he was the same person as Olympic wrestler of the same name. This Billy Wood was a pro wrestler from the start. And had no amateur background. Many didn't. Let's remember it was rich parents' kids who enjoyed the amateur sports in Victorian and Edwardian times. Poor kids did pro from a get go. That meant money for them. And that, I mean a paycheck what it was all about. Always.

wow. what a treasure. priceless.

sad news. rest in peace in champ. I treasured your facebook friendship.

like sriously...predetermined finishes, they all were. won or lost regardless. what a joke.

yes of course, and they called it FREESTYLE too. but as you noticed the so-called "catchers" of the former MMA brotherhood are missing out to win on knockouts. why? now this is very simple. because in their "discipline" (I mean their actual thing not a fake catch they teach, that one never existed, lol) they do not teach how to knockout opponent using exclusively "fair wrestling" tools, such as lifting and throwing. they all are not efficient in throwing. they do not know how to bodyslam an opponent.

another good example of such "catch" that was not an actual Lancashire catch wrestling, but rather a re-branded all-in wrestling. the term of "catch wrestling" was and still is abused more than anything else in pro wrestling history. often time you hear about "catch" here and there and nowadays almost everywhere. and NONE of that is anyhow related to Lancashire wrestling. just some random former MMA people capitalizing on pro wrestling history. that is precisely what it is.

it's Prof. Wm Miller on the pic...and guess what my friends, HE ALSO HAD A BEAUTIFUL CHAMPION BELT he won in the United States, obviously silver gold plated!

of course I do know all that, sorry but NO, my friend this is what you are showing has NOTHING to do with Lancashire/English pro catch wrestling. this is a brand of pro wrestling which was first tried in Australia by H. Irslinger and Co. around 1926-27, who were inspired by the "american style" (a mix of euro british and japanese schools of pro wrestling), who later brought it to UK, around 1930. where it was commonly known as all-in, simply because in England everyone knew that IT IS NOT an actual Lancashire/English catch pro wrestling, they called it all-in in England because of that, because this new brand of pro wrestling was a mix of different wrestling cultures. in the mid and late 1930s they also called this kind of pro wrestling the "XX c catch as catch can", and is not anyhow different from all in wrestling, so to say NOT an actual catch pro wrestling. many pseudo-researchers and their followers all around the world capitalize on this kind of desinformation, read fake news. it is essential part of their agenda, narrative...or plain propaganda, their names are all well known. and they are nothing but wrestling history frauds.

Explaining the above "reintroduced after an abscense of thirty years". Which means that this show-match was "won/lost" on pinfalls ONLY. And that it was NOT a typical for that era all-in wrestling show-match. To learn more about ALL-IN please follow the Mike Hallinan’s page. Read the full article here: "ALL-IN" Wrestling Rules (allinwrestling.co.uk)

fantastic news!

want to share something. just thoughts of course, nothing big. since the early 1990s, when UFC first did that big gracie-jj push everwhere around the world we started seeing interest to submission styles grow. it ended up with sudden appearing, all around the world of course, and in particular in Europe, of a great number of "long forgotton", "local", submission styles. I intentionally do not call it "submission wrestling" styles, simply because there was never such a thing as that. never ever in any Western Euro culture whether it was Celtic, Latin/Romance or Germanic. As for the submissions, I would totally agree with this statement from above: "One only uses [submission] wrestling when you want to put somebody in their places you might say." That was long story short. And maybe this article. Over Darwen... Lancashire... England (wrestling-titles.com)

RIP champ.

you guys are lucky you saw them live. all I got is u-tube. and its collection even though it grows every day, still is very small.

what a joke.

ok, I have a serious question. why on earth would they even do that in the gym? what was the purpose of even having such "contest at the gym", they had nothing else to do at the gym, but figure out "who is the best", what for, I wonder, they were not paid for that. they should have better practiced in pairs more and make sure they memorized their routines well enough that transitions during the exhibitions from holds to holds from attack to defense back and forth come out smoothly, and it is enjoyable to watch them. that is what they were and still are paid for. "gym contest" is another myth made up by pro wrestlers in 20c, I stress in 20c, why in 20c, simply because by 1920s they I mean the pro wrestlers were exposed internationally as no actual ring-contests, as not a genuine sport, but rather a showcase, on which fools were wasting their bets, that they, I mean the promoters, were lying for so, so long, so they had to make up another story, about how they are still somehow legit fighters, long story short, this is something that never existed. so to say, before they were exposed according to them "pro wrestling was an actual sport", after they were exposed according to them again "gym contest was an actual sport". let's put two and two together, the whole story is hell of a joke. hell to toe one big nonsense.