I asked Peter Thornley about the colours of masks he wore in the ring a few weeks ago. He stated that there was no actual significance to colours and if they were going to be ripped or removed. The first time it came off against Billy Howes he was wearing black.

Nick Heywood was Kendo Nagasaki MkII. Terrible! Of course the King Kendo gimmick came about after a certain Wrestler and Promoter defied a court order banning them using Kendo Nagasaki as a ring name. They didn't fool fans once in the ring. They did some jail time for it too! There were many wrestlers donning masks as Kung Fu as well, and for obvious reasons that couldn't be copyrighted, so there's no wonder Eddie Hamill did away with the mask.

I seem to recall Barnes tagging with Magnificent Maurice after Adrian Street left.

Kendo Nagasaki had quite a few unexpected tag partners including, Big Daddy and Bert Royal!

Saxonwolf has it!

You've got it! Paul Dillon without the mask. I'm surprised that noone mentioned this as it's been subject to much debate on forums of old!

@NagasakiGoldthorn shall I put them out of their misery?

@NagasakiGoldthorn knows what I'm on about!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this particular piece as it will be news to almost everyone!

His involvement also included Kendo in a role which I doubt many knew about! See new thread!

@adrianpollard.shangri-la https://youtu.be/GTjR8MCQY9g

Thanks for that lol. I'm 54!

Feel free to join our facebook group Kendo Nagasaki - Past, Present, Future and see all the examples.

The blue masks look to me two different shades of royal blue, but I'm not going to argue. There's quite a bit of footage about with the purple mask. I'm pretty sure that some one of him fighting Wayne Bridges in it. The mask I saw him in live mostly was the blue one, but supporting the above it was early to mid 70's. The first masks as you say had very thin stripes on them. The 70's ones had the second stripe cut by the eye holes and the later ones had the third stripe cut by both the eye and nose holes. There was a five stripe mask worn in Europe too! Some of the later masks also had the second stripe just sitting above the eyes. The masks were tailor made for him. I have the ones sold in the web store and also the 50th Anniversary mask which I won in a raffle drawn by Bob Barratt. That mask was different and looks like a genuine fight mask as its slightly thicker and more a very dark charcoal than black. Of course the black mask with red stripes was a special edition made for public appearances. The is a black one with gold stripes on his wall at his home which myself, my wife and Roland Platt had done for him as a special edition.

He had four different colours. Black, Red, Blue and Purple. Wore purple a great number of times. Theres quite a few photos in our facebook group. Black and red masks were more common, but Blue was a regular colour. The blue masks were royal blue, but photos and film often made them look a different shade. Also if you scrutinise the stripes you will see they are positioned differently from one era to another.

Used to win in Lincoln. Used to be on 2/3rd bout.

First saw Naggers v Mike Marino about 1969/70 as a very young lad! Double county out was the result. I was mezmorised by the sight of a wrestler in a mask!