Mick McManus has died, but guess how old he was

93!!!

He must have been wrestling until he was around 60.

 

A legend RIP Mick, I will allus remember...

the contests him and Les Kellet had, they were pure magic. Les Kellet another legend too.

 

Remember seeing him and Jackie Pallo at Brid when I were nowt but a nip.

R.I.P. Mick.

 

Re: A legend RIP Mick, I will allus remember...

Super Les, weren`t he a farmer from up Bradford way, top entertainer.

 

Re: A legend RIP Mick, I will allus remember...

Lots of WWE stars mentioning it including England's own diva Paige.....

https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE

It must have been awesome fun back in pre kayfabe days to be an heel in the wrestling business. I imagine for him he'd have needed police protection regularly from wrestling fans.

 

Re: A legend RIP Mick, I will allus remember...

Protection nar it were all handbag stuff.

 

it were proper Mesters wrestling back then matey, non of yer lycra and stuff...

one or two had gimmicky stuff. Kendo Nagasaki used to come on dressed in a full Kendo uniform. Johnny Quango came on in African tribal gear, Masambula another African bloke. Then there was Billy Two Rivers an American Indian. Jackie Pallo with his Lurrvely Pony tail. But so much more humour in it all back then...wonderful stuff... Satdi tea time... ish Kent Walton commentator brilliant stuff.

 

and some of the tag team stuff was great too

the Black Diamonds...evil...lololol

 

Re: A legend RIP Mick, I will allus remember...

Until Vince Mcmahon came out and called Wrestling "sports entertainment" to get around tax laws to do with sports so he could pay less, people didn't know about kayfabe and thought what they saw was all real. Jim Cornette was such an hated heel manager and told many stories. Here is a bit from the Wiki page for Jim Cornette......

I can imagine Mick McManus probably had to be careful as well. Much different to these days where it's actually more cool to cheer for the heels and boo the babyface guys.

 

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Typical wrestling fans when it was filmed in the northern clubs and broadcast on world of sport.

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Re: it were proper Mesters wrestling back then matey, non of yer lycra and stuff...

Adrian Street seemed like a nice boy.

 

ayup thats me that is

the one on the left, I carry off pink well

 

His weak spot was his ears. Twist his ears and he was in agony, Kellet knew about this chink in his armour and often exploited it.

 

my weak spot is me knackers

our lass has exploited that over the years... twist 'em and I am in agony ...or summat

 

Re: my weak spot is me knackers

Did anyone ever get to take Kendo Nagasaki's mask off?


And Leon Arris was definitely not from Paris.

 

"Not the ears. NOT THE EARS!!!"

 

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Are you telling me these weren't real????

Get outta town!

[video=youtube;2H_RbnnX-II]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_RbnnX-II[/video]



[video=youtube;0b9yrss0OMQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b9yrss0OMQ[/video]

 

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Puffs!

 

yes it got removed....it was

JLWBL allegedly

 

seriously here is a link to the unmasking of Kendo Nagasaki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vz01e1wB898 that was the supposed official unmasking.... however here is "Big Daddy" unmasking him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3t5IeczZI


odd looking bugger innit, I reckon he's from Cudworth