Wrestling....English......not this American rubbish.........

[Wacky Racer]

Anyone remember the good old days of Wrestling on ITV with Kent Walton commentating..........

Let's see, there was......

Big Daddy
Giant Haystacks
Jackie (Mr TV) Pallo
Mal Kirk (The Yorkshire Miner)
Jimmy Saville....(yes really)
Rollerball Rocco
Jim Hussey
Jim Breaks
John Lees
Alan Kilby (Deaf & dumb)
Johnny Saint
Les Kellet...(My favourite)
Kendo Nagasaki
Count Bartelli......(From Crewe)
Ricky Starr (Ballet dancer)

Any more I've forgotten......

[D14 AYS]

Mick Mcmannus

Edited by D14 AYS on Saturday 7th March 21:04

[Wacky Racer]

D14 AYS said:

Mick Mcmannus

How could I forget him?.........

[wiggy001]

Catweasle!

[FourWheelDrift]

Brian Glover.

[FourWheelDrift]

Oh and Davy Boy Smith before he went to America and discovered steroids.

[Wacky Racer]

FourWheelDrift said:

Brian Glover.

Good shout....

Found this:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSro4l_0cE

[DrTre]

were there not some female ones that made Bella Emberg and Lisa Riley look like Cameron Diaz and Karen Carpenter?

[Simpo Two]

I hated Jmmy Breaks. He always cried to the ref, then stamped on the other guy.

(Bit like Latin footballers!)

[D14 AYS]

Pat Roache

[nelly1]

Wrestling - Pure bks Theatre - as true now as it was then!

Funny when you substitute the howling rednecks of today with the old Grannies throwing their handbags back then...

Can't say I blame the 'Superstars' of today for keeping the charade going given the money involved though...

One man's meat and all that...

[Six Fiend]

Danny Collins - A Bristol lad

Edited by Six Fiend on Saturday 7th March 21:34

[blod]

I took this photograph of Big Daddy at the Colston Hall in the early eighties.

[Wacky Racer]

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[Randy Winkman]

Wacky Racer said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Brian Glover.

Good shout....

Found this:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSro4l_0cE

Brilliant. When Haystacks goes out of the ring it looks blinkin' dangerous. The Reverend, Banger Walsh, the Majorettes and the old lady in the cardigan near the end are all classic!

[a boardman]

Fit finley (think that is how it is spelt)

I used to see all of them you mentioned at king Georges hall blackburn.

[cod man]

Mick Mcmanus - now he was one dirty fighter.

And Giant Haystacks, as a kid I always imagined he would stink to high heaven and felt sorry for any opponent whose face was buried in his arm pit. What memories!

[Nobody You Know]

Tom Billington AKA The Dynamite Kid, one half of the original British Buldogs with Davey 'Boy' Smith.

Absolute legend and awesome innovative wrestler, could/should have been one of the true greats in America.

Everybody should read 'Pure Dynamite' his autobiography

[Wacky Racer]

Tag team.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03ypSF7n0U&fea...

[steve.c]

Would I be correct in saying Big daddys real name was Shirley Crabtree?