Your dad did tell me his favourite wrestler to fight was Mick McManus who was extremely well known as a baddie. Your dad said how he (MM). was technically perfect and never caused any injury unlike Jackie Pallo who also was extremely popular in the 60's and 70's and frequently made mistakes such as scratching with fingernails. If a fighter had scratches he couldn't fight the next night as the scratches would show. The general idea was that although you inflicted pain (I can vouch for that especially Boston crabs and knee drops) you in no way injured your opponent as you were probably fighting him again that week somewhere else and if he couldn't fight you would lose money. Often it's said the fights were rigged but it wasn't that, rather they were an entertainment where genuine strong brave men showed what they could do. The important thing was to show what was happening so you did not rush to get out of a hold but rather endured it and then after a while made an escape. Results were never fixed because there was no need, the result didn't matter usually as the two fighters were fighting each other somewhere else tomorrow.

Give my best regards to your father Roger. My eldest son Paul was born in 1969 at a maternity hospital in Horsforth. and I believe you or one of your siblings was born at approx the same time as Roger was visiting at the same time as me. i believe your mother was Sue. Is that right? Roger was the very best athelete in the school (Aireborough Grammar) and i remember well him passing me in the 440 yards and wishing me well as he roared past me. I wish I had continued wrestling like Roger but I would never have been as good.

I was at school with Roger Adams who became Steve Best. We wrestled each day in the gym and put on shows for the boys half of the school. How we didn't kill each other I'll never know. Roger was an excellent athlete and I believe was Yorkshire schools long jump champion in 1962. He went to York University and after graduating he became a teacher, eventually wrestling as "The wrestling Headmaster"