Thread: wrestling from the old days

Does anybody like the old wrestling days ? john doyle from melbourne vic a real prison officer.

Wrestlemania VI.

Hulk Hogan Vrs The Ultimate Warrior was the pinnacle.




Had the little plastic doll.... figurines, n'all.

Saturday afternoons as a nipper: switching between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks on ITV and the football scores on Grandstand before Final Score came on.

Occasionally there'd be a double episode of Knight Rider or Airwolf and I wouldn't have to watch wrestling.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Saturday afternoons ...... Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks

The same. I saw them "fight" live once, too.

The legend that was Jackie Pallo.



Do you know he was Reg Gutteridge's cousin?

And of course Mick McManus. "Not the ears! Not the ears!".

[QUOTE=harrybarracuda;3799597]And of course Mick McManus. "Not the ears! Not the ears!".

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yeh one of my hero's along with that sheepish boy from the valley of brynmawr the one and only,ADRIAN STREET.he to worked down the pit.

These 2 ruled the World...or at least Preston Leisure Centre on a Saturday afternoon.

The Ultimate Warrior body pressing Hulk Hogan: the bestest moment in fake sports eva!



A close second would be Hogan body-slamming Andre the Giant.

Well remember the Mick McManus and Jakie Pallo grudge bouts.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Had the little plastic doll.... figurines, n'all.

I bet you did.
(Was that sarcasm or genuine belief?)

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

the bestest moment in fake sports eva!

I never got into fake sports to appreciate such moments

Watched this most sundays for years as a kid



Brute Bernard,Killer Karl Kox,Skull Murphy,Mario Milano etc.

Mark Lewin, King Curtus, Tiger Singh, Haystacks Calhooun to add to that list Bobo.

We must be around the same age.

Commentator Jack Little.

I remember watching Kendo Nagasaki getting his mask taken off, live on World of Sport, Saturday afternoon with Dickie Davis..

My world was complete. Guy was even scarier without it.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

We must be around the same age.

1957 was a vintage year.

^ Must have been mate.

Yeah, McManus and Billy Two Rivers...!

Wrestling faggots.

In brisbane we dont call this wrestling,we call it taking it up - -

Got to know larry odea [davies] r i p and ron miller [martin] when they use to came into the Reserve Bank Sydney on the armourguard cash trucks.

Ron played reserve grade prop for sydney easts rugby league 1964.65 and66, in 1967 jack gibson told ron to go. Two nice blokes.

The first game of Rugby League (at the SCG) I saw was the final between the great St George side and Canterbury Bankstown in 1967.

Canterbury won 12-11 knocking St George out after 11 consecutive premierships and then losing to South Sydney in the Grand Final.

I still remember that Bob McCarthy intercept.

Sorry wrong thread. When you mentioned Jack Gibson I automatically though NRL.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I bet you did.

Err yes, I did.

Was probably 8 or 9 at the time. Great toys.


Went to see the WWF on tour with my dad, while he dropped my older teenage sister off to see AC/DC as they were playing in a nearby city on the same night.


Looking back, she did get the better deal.

this guy...wooo