Ken Walton Wrestling

[seeandess]

Wrestling on world of sport, does anyone remember names of wrestlers from the 70s and 80s UK not USA

[kipchik]

Only wrestlers i knew from then was 'big daddy' and 'giant haystacks' but i was only about 6 or 7.

[DMA]

there was one called Rocky or Rocco

[seeandess]

Yea think he was Rollerball Rocco! What about Catweasle, Kendo Nagasaki, Les Kellet, Fit Finlay

[JackDanielsU]

Finlay is now wrestling in WWE (WWF). And he is very good.

My names FIinlay and I love to fight is his catchphrase

[JackDanielsU]

There was also Pat "Bomber" Roach,

[minall]

seeandess

try this link

http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/british.html

[DMA]

Jimmy Saville - yr havin a laugh

[lady_p_gold]

Jackie Pallo, Giant Haystacks ...

[mushroom25]

Johnny Saint

... and Harvey Smith, at least once

[Loosehead]

Mick McManus, Kendo Nagasaki, Masambula, Jackie pallow

[sheffwed39]

adrien street...jim breaks...clive myers

[peanut42]

The Royals(Burt Royal & Vic Faulkner),Johnny Kwango,Cyanide Sid Cooper,Mike Marino,And the bloke that say's breads better with nowt taken out Brian somebody,strongman Alan Dennison...............

[peanut42]

Brian Glover...

[stevie-p]

Little sammy lee (he was chinese and came on with a long staff) also Zackaria Patrick i think he used to be a preacherman.

[tonymclark]

The British Bulldogs, before they went to America.

more available on DVD

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=897979&p=57&g=72&pa=sr

I believe that Shirley "Big Daddy" Crabtree's brother was the referee for many of the shows.

[starrs]

Marty Jones.

Have you tried The Wrestling Channel on Sky. They show these old matches from the World Of Sport days all the time.

[JudgeJ]

Sadly Jackie Pallo died, aged 79, last month. I lived in the next road to him (in north London) when he was at the height of his fame in the 1960s. Jackie drove a white Saab car (which were quite rare in England in those days) and his son (Jackie jnr) went to my primary school.

Apart from wrestling, Jackie appeared on TV as an actor and was in an episode of the "Avengers". It was said that he was knocked out by Honor Blackman as they were rehearsing for the episode.

Jackie was born Jack Gutteridge, and was a cousin to Reg Gutteridge, the boxing jounalist and commentator.

[JudgeJ]

Oh, and nobody seems to have mentioned Johnny Kwango or Billy Two-Rivers !!!

[alfiebrady]

Honeyboy Zimba/Simba?, Mark 'Rollerball' Rocco, Clive 'Kung Fu' Myers

[Nautilus]

How about Count Bartelli........I used to watch wrestling at New Brighton Tower back in the 1950's ..........and another,Tiger Wood.