[Other Sport] Who was your favourite Kent Waltham era all-in wrestler?

[bristo]

Billy Two Rivers. Mohican and all.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Billy Two Rivers. Mohican and all.

I was just going to post that, too!

 

[el punal]

cross-buttock - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

cross-buttock (plural cross-buttocks)

1. (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip.

• Synonym: buttocking

2. (by extension) An unexpected defeat or repulse.​

Now that sounds exquisitely painful!

 

[Is it PotG?]

'Bomber' from Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

 

[jcdenton08]

Now that sounds exquisitely painful!

Love a good buttocking me.

 

[Sussexscots]

Black Jack Mulligan

Tally Ho Kaye

Jim Breaks.

My Granny used to get really agitated by the 'dirty' wrestlers.

 

[1066familyman]

I don't remember any buttocking on world of sport??

Then again my memory isn't all it should be.

All I remember was the half Nelson.

Nowhere near as painful as the full Nelson, which left the opponent with only one arm and eye left.

 

[METALMICKY]

A glorious staple of my childhood Saturday afternoons. And the best thing was that it was honest Panto and not trying to desperately convince you it's real like the ridiculous WWE ' sports entertainment '.

So many memories. Johnny Kwango and his head butt and Kendo Nagasaki always just managing to fend off an unmasking. All the ' baddies ' like McManus, Syd Cooper and Jim Breaks always wore the black singlets whilst the clean cut ' goodies ' like Johnny Saint wore the neat trunks. And not forgetting all the old biddies going mental down the front.

And then it was the classified results. Lovely stuff!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Kent Walton. I meant Walton. FFS.

Here's mine. George Kidd.

View attachment 164326

Yours?

My favourite was the old dear in the front row who used to set about the ones she took umbrage to with her brolly

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Has to be the late Mick McManus surely. I lost count of the times my dear old mum, normally such a mild mannered lady, attacked the television set with her handbag on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[Peteinblack]

"I could put a tennis racket up against my face, and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki" (HMHB).

Jackie Pallo, and Les Kellett were my faves

Mick McManus and Steve Logan were always the bad guys, and liable to be targeted by angry brolly-wielding grannies ringside

Used to watch the wrestling (World of Sport) while waiting for the classified football results, although at 4.50 prompt, I'd switch over to the BBC's Final Score.

 

[Questions]

And Tibor Szakacs the Hungarian grappler

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

"I

Used to watch the wrestling (World of Sport) while waiting for the classified football results, although at 4.50 prompt, I'd switch over to the BBC's Final Score.

That's exactly what l would do as a kid too . . . until my dad deemed me old enough to actually go and watch games live that is.

 

[Guinness Boy]

"I could put a tennis racket up against my face, and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki" (HMHB).

Jackie Pallo, and Les Kellett were my faves

Mick McManus and Steve Logan were always the bad guys, and liable to be targeted by angry brolly-wielding grannies ringside

Used to watch the wrestling (World of Sport) while waiting for the classified football results, although at 4.50 prompt, I'd switch over to the BBC's Final Score.

Kendo Nagasaki, Catweazle, Mick McManus and Giant Haystacks are the four who I always think of. Obviously Big Daddy was around but even as a kid, I could see that his fights were 'wrong' (I know the rest were but you know what I mean).

Of course, Kendo re-entered my life in later years in the chorus of the great Half Man Half Biscuit track Everything's AOR:
"But I can put a tennis racket up against my face
And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki"

Not to mention

 

[Questions]

Don’t touch Macmanus’s ears. He was vulnerable in that area.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Paging @enrest

 

[WATFORD zero]

Brian Glover and Pat Roach both went on to make it as actors, didn't Kendo Nagasaki get the whole mask thing from Count Bartelli ? Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus were brilliant as the bad guys, Les Kellet was hilarious, The Royal Brothers with Bert Royal and Vic Faulkner

Don't remember any of it

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

@Ernest has written a couple of self published books on Wrestling in the late 70’s. Unfortunately he left NSC 3 years ago, but is still going strong on Twitter.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My favourite was the old dear in the front row who used to set about the ones she took umbrage to with her brolly

I thought it was a rolled-up copy of the News of the World

 

[vegster]

Johnny Saint for me, fast as lightning with his moves ( yes, I know, all scripted ) against the bad guys..Catweazle and Johnny Kwango honourable mentions.