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HERITAGE NEWS:
6th July: Heritage Spotlight: Milly Johnson admits to a passion for men in tights. Read Milly's latest article and learn how she is putting Barnsley back on the wrestling map.
29th June: In The Eye of The Beholder
15th June: Wrestling Heritage adds "A Year of Wrestling - 1961."
The Yorkshire town of Barnsley has played an important part in Britain's wrestling heritage. The name Leon Arras is probably the name that comes first to mind, but there are a host of others wrestling stars who have each played an essential role, not least Leon's dad Charlie. Working outside the Joint Promotions network wrestling stars such as Pedro the Gypsy, Dwight J Ingleburgh, Butcher Goodman and Wilson Shepard would now be forgotten were it not for sites such as Wrestling Heritage. Well, that and people like Milly Johnson. Milly, an accomplished author with non-wrestling books under her belt, has turned her attention to Barnsley and its wrestlers. She's been travelling the length and breadth of, er, Barnsley, meeting and talking to everone who has put the town on the wrestling map. Her book celebrating Barnsley's wrestling heritage is due out next year. For Milly it's a labour of love because wrestling is in her blood. She tells the tale of her grandfather who had the good sense to not wrestle Assirati! Read about Milly's latest exploits and those of Darren "Tarzan Boy" Ward in the Heritage Spotlight feature.
It's twenty years since ITV took wrestling off our television screens. For many fans, particularly the older ones, it was a time of mixed emotions; sad to see the end of something so important in our lives, but reluctantly admitting things were not as they used to be. Here at Wrestling Heritage we will be commemorating the event in the months to come. In the meantime our latest update is another instalment of Armchair Corner. This weeks offering brings together one of the most underrated heavyweights, Judo Pete Roberts, and the son of the father, Skull Murphy. We remember Skull when he was a blond haired Steve Young. We are really old.
Another anniversary at this time is the death of Primo Carnera. The Ambling Alp started out as a wrestler, turned to boxing and back to the wrestling ring. He died on 29th June, 1967. Carnera visited Britain on more than one occasion. One fan who saw him in action was Ray Noble and you can read about it in Blood, Sweat and Speedway.
