Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

[Oggy]

Vic Faulkner

[MommaMystique]

The nostalgia of Saturday's sat with Grandad watching the wrestling! Brings a lump to the throat this does.

[MommaMystique]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Vic Faulkner

My mother reckoned she had gone to the Wrestling one night in Morecambe after she came off duty....she was a nurse.... and Vic Faulkner got thrown over the ropes and landed in her lap.

[Stockcarfan]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

The is a DVD with some of the best of Saturday afternoon wrestling witch I have. Classic stuff with Kent Walton's dead pan commentary.

Saturdy afternoons have never been quite the same since World Of sport and the wrestling at four o'clock ended.

[Mulletino]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Click this for some memories, Finlay and Giant Haystacks Vs Big Daddy and Drew McDonald (and many others).

[pedro]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Mick McManus,Steve Logan, Les Kellet,Riki Starr and wasn't htere a tag team with the Royal Bros? and of course the great George Kidd who used to wrap himself into a ball.

[Heather74]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

I remember my two older brother's being excited because giant haystacks and big daddywere doing a tag match near where we live, my mum had said they could take me and my younger brother, we couldn't believe our luck, then dad came home and said no way, as we were far to young:cry:
Happy memories were watching it at my nan's flat, she use to watch it with the sound right down...why?..we could hear the little old lady upstairs,yelling "go on kill him" or "grab him by the hair", she did a far better running commentary.

[Stockcarfan]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Plus the fact World Of Sport had other sports that don't normally get TV showing nowdays like Stockcar Racing (ahem).

[HG]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Ive been reliving those great saturday afternoons on Sky, both ESPN Classic and The Wrestling Channel regularly show the wrestling.
I remember going to see Big Daddy wrestle when i was on holiday in Hastings in about 1981 I think, I was so excited marching behind him on his way to the ring, happy days indeed.

[dadioflex]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Dave 'Fit' Finlay- Irish wrestler, bad boy

Who unbelieveably I just saw wrestling on WWE this morning. He must be nearly 50. Certainly a good few years older than me but holding his own against men half his age. Not kidding about that "Fit" part though he's a lot heavier than he used to be.

[joybee]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Oh my goodness, for three or four years of my life I used to spend Saturday evenings at the Victoria Hall in Hanley watching all these well known wrestling heros doing their thing ! Used to stand right upstairs in the gods looking down on all the action. Yes, there was the archetypal old lady in the front row prodding and poking the wrestlers with her umbrella too ! Ahhhhh those were the days

[stevef]

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Danny 'Boy' Collins

[batman]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

I'm ashamed to say, I only know the current age of wrestling, which is more commercialised and somewhat far removed from real sports.

"* Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

[LaineyT]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Les Kellett ...or as he was called ....Old rubber legs


Suppose to have had a really foul mouth on him


All together now.......1 aaaa.....2aaaaa..3aaaa......lol

LaineyT

[joybee]

Re: Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki?

Mick McManus,Steve Logan, Les Kellet,Riki Starr and wasn't htere a tag team with the Royal Bros? and of course the great George Kidd who used to wrap himself into a ball.

Yes indeed Vic Faulkner and Bert Royal were brothers and known as the Royal brothers