British heydays of Wrestling

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Eeh it were gyand! Around the seventies British wrestling was at its peak. Every Saturday afternoon and Wednesday night it was on the telly. Kent Walton used to commentate. Doncaster had its very own pro's with the likes of Mick McMichael and Catweasel.

Everyone had a favourite in those days, some liking the comedy Wrestlers like Les Kellet, whereas some, women especially, liked the camp ones like Adrian Streete, who despite his campness showed no fear as he took on loads of big blokes in the ring.

For those old enough, Who was YOUR favourite?

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Mick McManus......a villain who always won.

Least favourite wrestler......a certain Jimmy Saville.

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Kendo Nagasaki

Kojak Kirk (ex-Dons prop forward).

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Masambula

Jackie Pallo

Johny kwango

Pat Roach

Giant Haystacks

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Useless information When my mum was a kid Les Kellet was a kid and lived over the back from her,  she used to beat him up

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The 'innovative' Sammy Lee with his Kung Fu flying drop-kicks

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Bert Royal and Vic Faulkener.

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Leon Arras the Man From Paris   - better known as Brian Glover actor in Kes

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King Ben was a hard bugger, in the ring and real life, ( Ben Booth from Fishlake ).

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Gary 'Catweasle' Cooper from Hexthorpe, Doncaster 

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Gary 'Catweasle' Cooper from Hexthorpe, Doncaster 

He was born in Armthorpe, his brother Stan lived in Stainy

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Was Stan also known ( at School and after  ) as "Nanga". Quite possibly not same lad/fella at all

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Was Stan also known ( at School and after  ) as "Nanga". Quite possibly not same lad/fella at all

Stan was known as "Bump" in Stainy, if you heard him talk you'd know why

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Gary 'Catweasle' Cooper from Hexthorpe, Doncaster 

He was born in Armthorpe, his brother Stan lived in Stainy

Are you doubting the wisdom of the great Kent Walton ?? Shame on you 

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Ricky Starr, the ballet dancing wrestler!

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http://youtu.be/r_zPH3u65H8

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Had a shock - was seeing a young lady turned out her dad was catweazel

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Had a shock - was seeing a young lady turned out her dad was catweazel

Did you see his frog?

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My nan on mum's side loved Big Daddy, she used to get very carried away shouting at the tv. Then later on she would settle down to watch her other great love Dixon of Dock green.. 'Evening all'...........

My nan on my dad's side had a thing for Mick McManus....She was convinced he was related to the Irish man who was my aunt's father... Tho who he really was, who knows..lol.

I used to find Jim Breaks fascinating when I was little, such a drama queen, I did like Mick McManus and I used to love the tag team matches.

We used to watch Play Away then the tv would be turned over for the wrestling and the footy results. Ah happy days.

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Ahh Cry Baby Jim Breaks....don't touch me ears..lol...and the Jim Breaks Special. There were so many characthers back in the day...Tally Ho Kaye, Iron Fist Clive Myers, Brian Goldbelt Maxine, Rollerball Rocco......the list goes on.

As an aside, was watching a programme online the other day about Chris Benoit murdering his family. They interviewed the Dynamite Kid at his home in Manchester...wow what a state he's in now

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Fit Finley v Marty Jones saw these two a few times at the Black Lion Gillingham and Orchard theatre in Dartford (yes I used to go   ) they really seemed to genuinely dislike each other even outside the ring.
Finley ended up in American wrestling and I'm sure it was Giant Haystacks who had just got a  contract with the WWE when it was discovered he had cancer

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My nan on mum's side loved Big Daddy, she used to get very carried away shouting at the tv. Then later on she would settle down to watch her other great love Dixon of Dock green.. 'Evening all'...........

My nan on my dad's side had a thing for Mick McManus....She was convinced he was related to the Irish man who was my aunt's father... Tho who he really was, who knows..lol.

I used to find Jim Breaks fascinating when I was little, such a drama queen, I did like Mick McManus and I used to love the tag team matches.

We used to watch Play Away then the tv would be turned over for the wrestling and the footy results. Ah happy days.

Thats the way i recall  it wrestling Followed by world Of sport football results .

Mike macnus was my favorite too

Same can be said for me nan nan has she would Get her sen worked right up watching it ,sometimes she let the bas**rd Word out too

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Mine's Magnanimous pirate!

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Zealous Poseidon

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My forum name's probably better....Fusion Spectre!

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(Dave) Finley as he is known over there is now a top trainer with WWE as far as I know

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(Dave) Finley as he is known over there is now a top trainer with WWE as far as I know

I knew he went to the wwe as we used to see him wrestle in the earlier days of wwe on British telly.
Started as Dave Finley but was usually  Dave "Fit" Finley
I take it he totally dropped the Dave over there

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Going back a few years more, anyone remember the Doncaster Panther - Albert 'Rocky' Wall, who made his wrestling debut in the late 50's?

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Going back a few years more, anyone remember the Doncaster Panther - Albert 'Rocky' Wall, who made his wrestling debut in the late 50's?

I recall watching doncaster panthers basketball team ,and they was near top Of league back in very early 1980s

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And nobody has mentioned Billy Two Rivers