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As wrestling fans of the north prepare for one of their rare opportunities to watch old style British wrestling at the World of Sports Legends show at Leeds on Saturday 6th March we hear of another northern show featuring old time wrestling. Unlike the Leeds show, which will recreate the old days of British wrestling the latest announcement is of a show combining British and American styles. Seventy five year old Buddy Ward will meet the youngster Johnny Saint (69 this year) at the Ellesmere Port Civic Hall. on Saturday 3rd April. Supporting matches will be American style. Tickets are on sale at the Ellesmere Port Civic Hall box office.
Promoter Norman Ellis tells us there will be nothing American about the Yorkshire show, taking place at the Rothwell Leisure Centre, Leeds, on Saturday 6th March. All bouts will be wrestled according to Mountevans rules, and the bill includes Johnny Saint, Robbie Brookside and Drew McDonald.
Tickets are on sale at the Rothwell Leisure Centre box office and from Norman Ellis Promotions. 85, Priory Chase, Nelson, BB9 ONT. Tel 01282 697373 More details can be found at the the World of Sports Legends website.
Time and again we can see examples of professional wrestling being a family business. Few more successful than the Manterfield boys, known to wrestling fans as the Mansfields. This week Bert, Frank and Midge join the letter M selection in our A-Z. They are not alone. We have added more than a dozen new names to the letter M, and as usual they are a combination of names you are likely to remember, and those you probably won't. Take a look. British Wrestling Legends
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All In The Family
Wrestling fans in Bristol last week had the chance to re-live Britain's wrestling heritage at an exhibtion documenting Colston Hall's golden age of pro-wrestling. Artist Rhiannon Chaloner and friend Tim Floyd were assisted by Mad Eli who loaned some of his wrestling collection for the seven day exhibition.
He's back. European heavyweight champion, Johnny Kincaid, the man who brought us Wrestling's Ringside Seat has been back at work to produce the sequel, From International Wrestler To Pubs and Punters. From International Wrestler To Pubs and Punters records the trials and tribulations of Johnny's life after wrestling. It's on sale now, in bookshops, from Amazon, but the lowest price we've found is from Johnny's own website. Still available is part one of Johnny's well documented story Wrestling's Ringside Seat. Buy them both now from www.johnnykincaid.co.uk and go to the bookshop.
| A Man With A Dream Norman Ellis is a man with a dream. It's taken quite a few years but the dream is about to end and become reality. As a schoolboy in the early 1960s Norman saw professional wrestling on television. It wasn't a weekly programme in those days, but Norman saw enough of it to know he liked it and pestered his dad to take him along to their local hall. Eventually dad relented and the two of them went along to a Jack Atherton & Bily Riley show. After watching just one show and seeing the likes of Vic Hessle, Billy Joyce and Tommy Mann in action the youngster was well and truly hooked. From that day on Norman was a serious wrestling fan and never missed a local show. All the better, then, when he got a job at Colne Municipal Hall. This gave him the chance to get to know quite a few of the wrestlers and Robbie Brookside, Steve Regal and Tarzan Boy Darren were soon good friends. After watching a show promoted by Tarzan Boy Darren and Robbie Brookside around 2004 Norman decided that he too would like to put on a wrestling show. Like most dreams it seemed that Norman's dream would remain no more than just that. Until last June that is. When Tarzan Boy Darren told Norman about the Wrestlers Reunion at Leeds Norman saw the opportunity of making his dream come true, by putting on a show the night before the reunion.
Norman called on his good friend Tarzan Boy to help him put the show together. The Rothwell Leisure Centre was hired for Saturday 6th March and wrestlers booked for a night to remember. Asked if he planned to make any money from the venture Norman just smiled and told us that although it would be nice to make a profit the show was not about making money. Robbie Brookside will be there to support his friend and face the Highlander Drew McDonald. Also appearing will be Tiger Gil Singh, Lee Bronson, Steve Grey, Johnny Saint, Johnny Angel, Superstar Sanders, Count Von Zuppi and a host of others. Details can be found at the Legends 2010 website. WORLD OF SPORT LEGENDS 2010 Tickets cost £10 and are on sale now, from the Rothwell Leisure Centre, or from Norman Ellis Promotions. 85, Priory Chase, Nelson, BB9 ONT. Tel 01282 697373 |
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