Has The Wrestler made you nostalgic for the glory days of professional wrestling? Does it have you thinking back to the days when you recreated Wrestlemania III with your Hulkster and Andre the Giant action figures? Wondering where some of your favorite wrestling stars of the '80s are now?
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Saturday 18 April
By kinglear
you sat that the 80 wrestler are UK but you only show 2 of them there where a lot more.
if you are going to show UK the show UK.
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Saturday 26 September
By Norman
Tony Borg one of the Borg twins now lives at Minster on Sea on the Isle of Sheppey Kent
(a neighbour)
Saturday 26 September
By Neil
I agree. I remember coming home from the pub on
Sat afternooon to watch wrestling on ITV. Few of the comedians shown here were on it. I well remember seeing Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy and Co. at the Queens Hall Derby.
Saturday 18 April
By shirley
you say professional wrestlers but then use pictures of ones from America they are just actors,and as for the wwe its just a joke.
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Saturday 18 April
By goldie
What about Jackie Powlo and Mick MacManus and that crowd, where were the British Wrestlers? No memory of the American ones
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Saturday 18 April
By Grant
Raj, well said!
Saturday 02 May
By Billy
well....come on then......where the f**** are all the Brit wrestlers ???? Johhny SAINT ? Clive Iron fist Myers ?? Les Kellet ? Jackie Pallo ???
I dont know any of those so called americans...
Saturday 18 April
By Raj
A special mention must go to Leeds hero 'Tiger' Dalbir Singh Gill, 80's World Wrestling Champion who still lives in the city!
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Friday 18 June
By Flash Gordon
Has anyone have the contact telephone number for Tiger Dalbir Singh.
He was a good wrestler and a household name in South Africa
Saturday 18 April
By Grant
This is one of the problems with ASYLUM - it starts a subject about 80's wrestling of which I was a big fan and what happens ... you get a load of American wrestlers in there! What was the point? It is also another reason why I don't like reading the Asylum pages on AOL. I am afraid if you want to find out about 80's wrestling, just do what I had to do. Forget this page and google it!
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Saturday 18 April
By DAVE WILLIAMS
What about Count Bartelli (Geoff Condliffe) from Crewe-Brilliant.
His brother still works part time at my bike shop in Crewe.
Dave Williams.
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Saturday 18 April
By BPW
Not forgetting the late Pat Roach, "Bomber" from Auf Weidersein Pet, Les Kellet, Steve Logan plus many more
Lets see a revised photo gallery of real UK wrestlers or is that too much like hard work??
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Sunday 19 April
By debbie
does anyone remember cry baby jim brakes well several years ago whilst on holiday i puerto rico gran canaria jim was serving in the tropicanna bar.
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Saturday 25 April
By pat weston
hi,jim breaks was one of the most popular guys to wrestle at liverpool in the sixties,a great athlete and comedian,allways a crowd pleaser,especially when he was billed against the brilliant jhonny kid.
Monday 28 September
By keith lawson
cry baby JIM Breaks was saved by a steward from getting another cauliflower ear for repeated cheating could'nt fight for toffee. anything on BIlly TWO RIVERS; MASAMBULA;
FARMER JOHN ALLAN; wild Angus; KLONDYKE Kate
Tuesday 23 February
By garry
well i worked in Jim's pub in Batley "Seconds Out" in the early 90s' for a year. He was a good bloke too. Like somebody else mentioned i heard he had gone to Gran Caneria selling timeshare. Though he kept coming back for visits. Where he is now i have no idea.
Tuesday 23 February
By garry smith
I also found this article from 2005. Enjoy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/sep/04/features.sport19
Saturday 17 April
By Stuart
Jim moved to Gran Canaria years ago and owns an appartment in Peurto Rico.
He sold timeshare purely out of boredom, not money and also the need to entertain people.
He was the only guy I know that could take a whole coachload of pensioners on a presentation - what a character !!!
I last saw him in 2000 and he was as fit and enegetic as ever, his son works as an entertainer on the island and Jim does bizarre hypnosis shows when the mood takes him.
I hope as a pensioner I have as much energy, but will never have as much character as Jim.
Monday 20 April
By Cliff Minors
Ok, here goes! Superstar Mal Sanders, Johnny Two Rivers, Kendo Nagasaki, Catweazle, Vic Faulkner, and that's just for starters!
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Saturday 25 April
By Lizzie
I remember all of those mentioned Vic Faulkener had a tag partner Jim Royal who was his brother. They were my favourites along with Cat Weazel i
met all 3 of them in a pub in Farningham kent in the early 80s all very charming.