Wrestlers in the late 60 s early 70 s

[Wscad]

Don’t forget the tag teams.....Bert royal and another ....I forget his name

Alan (strongman) denison lived in the same village as me and he was a genuine strong chap. Cracking fella and always took the time to chat with young lads. His wife was better looking than most Hollywood stars and his two daughters.....they were fitter than all the butchers dogs in the world. I would have loved to have ........well maybe best to say no more but they both had the right curves in all the right places.

After Alan retired he managed a pub in the viilage for a while

[Druid]

Kendo Nagasaki
Johnny Saint
Mark Rocco
Catweazel
Johnny Kwango

[Noggin]

I used to spend Saturday’s with my grandparents and they’d have the wrestling on. When Big Daddy was bouncing young fit blokes off his belly I could tell it was all a show and I was only eight, it perplexed me that grown adults in the crowd would get all animated at it and thought it was real.

I like most combat type sports and I think proper wrestling is a great skill, but I’ve never understood the allure of the showman type theatrical wrestling.

I can't remember when I first watched it, TV wasn't a big thing in our family, but I dismissed it as play acting straight away - never been interested since!

(Partly why I no longer enjoy watching football - too many theatrics to score penalties instead of using actual skill to score goals. Can't see the point of watching a game that is created by cheating/theatrics/showmanship instead of actual skill/strength etc)

[gremlin]

Was is Larry Sharp used to wrestle under the moniker 'Pretty Boy'? His Achilles Heel was when an opponent tussled his perfectly-styled (for the 70's / 80's) hair , whereupon he would lose it. Or pretend to, as it was all bloody made up anyway.

Even the old girls in the crowd who used to get involved with their umbrella when a wrestler was thrown (jumped) out of the ring were relatives of the tumblers and acrobats providing the so-called spectacle.

[David]

Kendo Nagasaki
Johnny Saint
Mark Rocco
Catweazel
Johnny Kwango

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

[gremlin]

Kendo Nagasaki
Johnny Saint
Mark Rocco
Catweazel
Johnny Kwango

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

Are you telling me he wasn't Japanese?

[Yorick]

Kendo Nagasaki
Johnny Saint
Mark Rocco
Catweazel
Johnny Kwango

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

Are you telling me he wasn't Japanese?

And Catweazle wasn't a cat ?

[gremlin]

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

Are you telling me he wasn't Japanese?

And Catweazle wasn't a cat ?

And now it turns out that Jim never fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded....

I feel I've been lied to all my childhood.

[JackyJoll]

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

Are you telling me he wasn't Japanese?

And Catweazle wasn't a cat ?

Nor a Weazle.

[David]

Kendo Nagasaki
Johnny Saint
Mark Rocco
Catweazel
Johnny Kwango

Kendo Nagasaki was my lanlord in Wolverhampton...Pete something.

Are you telling me he wasn't Japanese?

Most japanese people do not come from Wolverhampton......

[ZRX61]

A bunch of them used to hang out at a Cafe in London. Kennington IIRC, maybe Walworth area.

[Nobby]

I used to work for a woman who was the niece of Mick McManus.

She gave him odd jobs. He used to come into the office to get paid.

McManus owned a Pub near me in Guildford. The Royal. I think his brother ran it. Considering the area, there was never any trouble.

[roadster]

My uncle was a farmer and going to the wrestling was about the only time he left the farm apart from market days. In my early teens he would occasionally take me along. When you saw exactly the same performance in different venues it soon became obvious that it was just a show and after all the wrestlers needed to be fit enough to perform every week without injury. Can't say I got a great deal out of it but certainly better than the tedium of a local football match with my dad.

[David]

Just been reading about Kendo Nagasaki, and the truth is stranger than fiction. Turns out he’s a gay Buddhist from Stoke.

I wouldn't take it all as true....he certainly wasn't a buddhist as a landlord......or gay.....or from Stoke....

[cheb]

But he's the only one to be name checked by Half Man Half Biscuit. Which has to be some measure of success.

[Wscad]

When Alan Dennison managed the pub in the village, once a month many wrestlers came in for a drink.

Big daddy, giant haystacks, les Kellet. Mal or Mel Kirk. Massanbulla lived in the next village to us.

Most wrestlers had damaged/worn out elbows and knees. Mal Kirk was a bloody big lad but he couldn’t put peanuts into his mouth. He would put the peanuts in his hand, stoop his head then hoover them up into his mouth.

Did kendo ever have his mask removed?

More names
Black jack mulligan
Billy two rivers

[David]

Just been reading about Kendo Nagasaki, and the truth is stranger than fiction. Turns out he’s a gay Buddhist from Stoke.

I wouldn't take it all as true....he certainly wasn't a buddhist as a landlord......or gay.....or from Stoke....

I think he's from Staffordshire, so the Stoke thing may not be true, but he's from close by, and apparently in his autobiography (which I haven't read in full, just an extract) he states he's bisexual and lives with a man and he's a buddhist. I don't know how you can tell whether he's a proper buddhist or not from his landlording activities, but it's from the horses mouth.

He certainly wasn't exhibiting any Buddhist tendencies as a landlord (not sure what those would be, but he wasn't the most sympathetic or helpful)....maybe he had a late conversion, to gayness and Buddhism.BTW , Wolverhampton is in Staffordshire, so I am not arguing that aspect...

[David]

The last thing I want is to argue with you, Potter.....

[Count Steer]

He's from (ie born in) Shropshire.

He has lived in a few places.