Damocles said:stony said:I've never really got into wrestling not in it's current format. Loved going live when I was a kid and watching it on ITV on a Saturday afternoon. I've probably seen every famous British wrestler from the 70s live. DK was only a skinny teenager when I saw him. See Dave boy Smith live too.
Les Kellett was my favourite as a kid, he always played the joker, but he was truly feared by every other wrestler on the circuit. A proper hard bastard who was incredibly strong, despite looking like a skinny armed, fat bellied middle aged man.
I could never get into the old British wrestling as it was too slow and based more on catch wrestling. Some of the British companies had a hookup with Stampede Wrestling in Canada which is how Dynamite/Davey Boy got into the American scene. Later double murderer Chris Benoit was a big fan of Dynamite and based much of his ring work around him.
I didn't have a choice. My old man hated football, I begged him to take me to Maine rd but he said football was too violent(it was in the middle of all the hooliganism)
He never saw the irony of taking me to every wrestling/boxing match within a 40 mile radius.
Saturday nights was always wrestling at Belle Vue, and a go on the water chute or the mad mouse on the way out. I had my first taste of beer in the Kings Hall during the interval, much to the disapproval of my mum.