Happy Birthday to one of the all-time greats, Marty Jones. His matches with Rocco and Finlay were the blueprints for the high flying style of today.

Our own Tony Charles teamed with Andre the Giant, in a losing effort, against NWA (Los Angeles and Japan) Tag Team Champs, Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi, in Londrina, Brazil, on this day in 1974. It never ceases to amaze me how much globe trotting our lads did, and what a great life it must have been (if you like travelling, of course).

The Iron Sheik has died, aged 81. When the WWF took off in the early-mid 80's, the Iron Sheik was one of its main villains. He won the WWF World title from Bob Backlund, as a set up to lose the title to the up and coming, Hulk Hogan. The Iron Sheik was Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, a legitimate Greco-Roman wrestler from Iran, he had an infamous run-in with Billy Robinson, during the Brit's early years in the USA, when (during a training session) the Sheik said he couldn't be pinned by anyone, and Robinson did that. During the Gulf War era, The Iron Sheik was "re-branded" as Colonel Mustafa, and it was under this name that he appeared in the UK rings, during WWF tours, usually taking on Sgt. Slaughter.

Wrestling overseas today……….. Well, as many of you know, I was always fascinated by the globe trotting lifestyle of our British Wrestlers. The tournaments in Germany, the tours in Japan, a stint in Canada, various trips to South Africa, dates in France, summers in Spain, long haul trips to Australia and New Zealand, and of course, the USA. It always sounded so exotic, to me, in the 1970’s, when we had power cuts, and three day weeks, and strikes. Most people, when I was in the Junior school, still went to the British coastal towns for their summer holidays, package holidays to Spain were still in their infancy, and yet here were a bunch of men, who I saw wrestle live, who could be jetting off to all the countries listed above, and more, almost anytime they wanted to, and if they did a good job, they were invited back. Living a jet set life that someone else paid for. When I first started reading the “On this day” posts, on this website, I didn’t think I could add anything of interest. I didn’t own any posters, because all my wrestling memorabilia has gone, for various reasons. Then I started thinking about the globe-trotting exploits of our lads overseas, what were they doing “on this day”, when they were not over here?, who were they wrestling against, which promoter were they working for?, did they “win” any titles? (and if any of us didn’t attend a wrestling show, “on this day”, who were we watching on TV?). So here we are, just over 500 overseas results, so far. I started out thinking I would post once a week, but then decided to try and add a result “on this day”, every day, for a month, then 3 months, then six months, then I decided I would try and get to 365 days (including Christmas Day and New Years Day), which I did, and then thought I would try for 500 consecutive results, which happened about 8 days ago. I’ve loved doing it, and it has been fascinating, finding results for Bert Assirati and Chick Knight, in India, finding an advert for the “Russian Tag Team Champions”, Tibor and his brother, “Veidor” Szakacs, wrestling in France, finding an advert for the “World Tag Team Champions”, Al Hayes and Ray Hunter, in Italy. Finding out that Chris Adams won (and lost a few months later) the WWF Light Heavyweight championship in Mexico. Finding out that Dangerous Danny Lynch wrestled as Ivan Borienkoff, in Greece (“The Russian World Champion”), finding out that 1960’s “Russian” villain, Yuri Borienko was actually Polish immigrant Jan Kadlubowski, finding footage of Steve (William) Regal wrestling against Tiger Dalibir Singh, in South Africa. Finding out that in the 1960’s, so many of our lads went for a working holiday in Spain. And much, much more. As Covid starts to hopefully pass, I will start to commence travelling again (for work), and that means I will have less time for this, so I probably won’t be posting an overseas result every day, but will still chip in occasionally. I hope some of you found the results interesting.

Sad news, overnight, that Scott Hall passed away. He had developed blood clots, in hospital, following hip surgery, and the complications led to him having three heart attacks, and being placed on life support, which was switched off over the weekend. He wasn't part of our Heritage years, but he was a major figure in Wrestling, in WWF/WWE/WCW/AWA, etc., and wrestled over here a number of times.

Hearing reports that Japanese wrestler, Shozo Kobayashi has died. He was a visitor to these shores in the late 1960's. I think he would have been 81 years old. He faced many of our lads, here in the UK, in Germany, Japan and the USA, and was a frequent opponent for Billy Robinson, Pete Roberts, Steve Wright, Ian Campbell, Geoff Portz, Bruno Elrington, Tony Charles and others.

Wrestling overseas on this day, Peter Deakin had a creditable draw, with Hermann Iffland, in Krefeld, Germany, on this day in 1959. On our TV screens, on this day in 1962: - Bill Howes v Norman Walsh Johnny Eagles v Abe Ginsburg Ken Cadman v Malcolm Sample Jim Hussey v Reg Williams

Working overseas, on this day, Steve Wright defeated Manuel Lopez in Munster, Germany, on this day in 1972. On our TV screens, on this day in 1964: - Billy Joyce v Jan Kovacs Bob Steele v Eric Sands

Working overseas on this day, our lads, Tony Cassio and Al Fontayne, drew with Emilio Lamban and Tony Oliver, in Barcelona, Spain, on this day in 1965. On our TV screens, on this day in 1967: - Masumbula (W. Africa) v. Les Kellett (Bradford) Clayton Thomson (British Middleweight Champion, Scotland) v. Mick McMichael (Doncaster) Mike Eager (Sheffield) v. Ted Heath (Kippax)

Working overseas, on this day in history, the excellent Dynamite Kid teamed with Bret Hart, and fought to a no contest draw, against Bad News Allan and the Cuban Assassin, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on this day in 1983. On our TV screens, on this day in 1967: - Heavyweight - Mike Marino (Anglo-Italian) v. Josef Zaranoff (Leningrad) Lightweight - Johnny Williams (Wales) v. Alan Miquet (British Lightweight Champion, Brixton) Middleweight - Barry Cannon (Yorkshire) v. Mick McManus (South Area Champion, New Cross)

Wrestling overseas, on this day in history, the one and only Billy Robinson took the win against Buddy Austin in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day in 1969. On our TV screens, on this day in 1966: - Jackie 'Mr. TV' Pallo (Highbury) (KO) v Peter Szakacs (Budapest) Syed Saif Shah (Lahore, Pakistan) (W) v Johnny Alan (Halifax) Johnny Kwango (West Africa) v 'Tug' Holton (Waterloo)

Wrestling overseas, on this day in history, Chris Adams beat Mike Masters, in Salem, Oregon, USA, on this day in 1982. On our TV screens, on this day in 1967: - Heavyweight - Bill Robinson (Manchester) v. Gwyn Davies (Wales) Welterweight - Alan Miquet (Huddersfield) v. Jeff Kaye (Leeds) Mid-Heavyweight - Bill Howes (Bolton) v. Tony Charles (Bristol)

Looks like we didn't do an "on this day" for May 23rd, so here goes. Wrestling overseas, on this day, Bert Assirati beat big George Gordienko (wrestling as "Flash Gordon"), in Mumbai, India, on this day in 1953. On our TV screens, on this day in 1970: - Jon Cortez (1) v Julien Morice (0) Pat Roach (W) v Ray Hunter Brian Maxine (1) v Ted Heath (0)

Wrestling overseas today, Bert Assirati defeated Sardar Khan, in Mumbai, India, on this day, back in 1953. On our TV screens, on this day in 1969: - Les Kellett (KO) v Bobby Graham Jon Cortez (1) v Zolton Boscik (1)

Wrestling overseas today, Adrian Street, Esq., was in fine form, beating US Wrestler, Dusty Rhodes, in West Palm Beach, Florida, on this day in 1983. On our TV screens, on this day in 1964: - Joe Cornelius (W) v Earl Maynard Modesto Aledo (Spanish lightweight champion) v Ted Hannan (W) Peter Rann v Ken Joyce (W) Monty Swann v Ray Fury (Southern area light-heavyweight champion) (W)

Local lad wrestling overseas today is Judo Chris Adams, who won against Kengo Kimura in Utsunomiya, Japan, on this day in 1981. On our TV screens, on this day in 1966: - Mick McManus (KO) v Alan Dennison Bert Royal and Vic Faulkner (Bolton) (W) v Daniel Aubriot and Gil Cesca (Paris) Rikki Starr (W) v Steve Logan

Wrestling overseas, on this day in history, Lenny Hurst beat El Gringo, in Vancouver, Canada, on this day in 1975. On our TV screens, on this day in 1962: - Johnny Kwango v Al Bastein Memo Diaz v Mike Donlevy Roy St Clair v Jim Hart

Working overseas on this day, our own Pete Roberts draw with Indio Guajaro, in Frankfurt, Germany, on this day in 1976. On our TV screens, on this day in 1964: - Gwynn Davies v Georges Gordienko (W) Colin Joynson (1) v Bobby Steele (1) Johnny Czeslaw v Ernie Riley (W)

Wrestling overseas today, Judd Harris lost to Otto Wanz in Bremen, Germany, on this day in 1978. On our TV screens, on this day in 1964 (FA Cup Final Day): - Mick McManus/Steve Logan v Vic Faulkner/Bert Royal (The Royals) Gomez Maxmilliano v Johnny Czeslaw Joe Murphy v Al Nicol Al Miquet v Jim Breaks