True Life Tales British Wrestling In The Seventies

[@Peter-pf6bz]

I am 70 now and I still miss the wrestling on Saturday's @ 4 o,clock. God bless them all wherever they are.

[@garryleerob]

I grew up watching these wrestlers Les Kellett without doubt my hero. Me and my dad watching, on a Saturday, mum's out shopping, then bingo ( no pesky women spoiling it lol) waiting for the boring racing to end... then 4.00pm Wrestling!! Others I loved watching, The Royals tag team, I do remember much earlier watching Billy Two Rivers... his Tomahawk chop ha ha. Hated Mick McManus, even as a kid, he seemed sly, never mind his trademark bad guy image. The Royals, I couldn't understand why one was called Vic Faulkner ha ha. Then there was Kendo Nagasaki... I loved martial arts ( to be fair there wasn't that much if any with Kendo lol) I actually got to see Marty Jones fight at Butlins Barry Island. Fantastic!! We were ringside. My younger sister never stopped screaming for him, she loved him. I think it was because he looked like the Character McGill from the tv series Man In A Suitcase... we were allowed to stay up and watch that. She got very worried when she thought the 'baddie' had hurt him, and he came round to say hello to her after the fight...he won, she was about 8. Nice bloke. Much later on I was about 14 ('74/75) Hell's Angels- Adrian Street and Bobby Barnes were on at my local Gym.. Stretford Sports Centre, managed to get a glimpse there ( didn't have tickets so we snook into the blocked-off main hall)

[@keithfrmcov]

Thank you for uploading this documentary. We as a family had great fun watching the wrestling on World of Sport. I would be great if World of Sport would return, but I will add. I do not think wrestling would ever be the same as it was. There would be far too much money involved which would kill that atmosphere that we all shared as a nation with whom watched the good old British Wrestling on a Saturday afternoon. With our families. Which none of us never shouted at our television sets. Sad but what great memories I had with all of my family when I was a young boy watching the Wrestling. Thanks to all and everyone involved behind the scenes and to all the wrestler's with making our Saturday afternoons entertaining. We miss it.

[@fredblogs3303]

Brilliant.....brings back memories of my childhood watching wrestling on a Sunday with my grandfather who would be shouting at the TV ..... just edit out Jimmy saville ....No body want's to see or hear that thing ever again

[@tigerboy1966]

Au contraire, I thought watching Jimmy get kicked in the head was great fun.

[@eddieville13]

Agree very interesting, apart from that thing saville.

[@bryanpanvert5288]

Well done all of them.

[@albaproductions9602]

Mick McManus was one of the nicest people i have ever met, Many years ago about 40 to be precise i was labouring on a building site and like any site it had it's loud mouth who thought he could take on the world. He would boast about how many blokes he had ironed out over the weekend. This one day he was boasting he would take on any wrestler especially Mick, but unknown to him our gaffer was a big pal of Mick's and two days later turned up on site with Mick. Gaffer told Mick this loud mouth would take him on Mick just gave him that thousand mile stare, we never saw loud mouth again after that day.

[@adrianjae599]

A fella I’ve known for 15 years (lives in the same road as me) shares the same surname as his uncle Les and he told me that Les was much older than the public were told he was - he loved wrestling so much had he put down his real age on the wrestling licence applications he’d never have been issued one during the televised era !!

[@johnny5805]

This programme is like a time capsule of legends. There's even a (too short) interview with Les Kellett !!! 923 views ! That's disgraceful !

[@Isleofskye]

923 views but now over 111,000 :)

[@toddlecher4097]

no talk of DYNAMITE KID ( Tommy Billington )?? probably the best Wrestler to come out of the UK an wrestle all over the world. by far my favorite he was amazing. Rip- DYNAMITE

[@ForgottenHorrorchannel]

Yea Dynamite kid was awesome his battles with Rollerball Rocco were action all the way. Both legends.

[@ppiorkowski1502]

todd lecher thanks for the heads up. The only reason I came here. I figured it would show him and John Foley his heel manager from Stampede. I guess he was a good wrestler back in his day? They say they had similar styles?I don't know if that's true or not?

[@garycurtis891]

He was years ahead of his time best wrestler ever rip dynamite

[@jamessim1858]

George Kidd was the best of them all no doubt about that!

[@SpaceAgeMark]

Thank you very much for posting this, wonderful!

[@londonEnglishVideos]

Where there's money, there's always angles.... spot on!

[@TheLucreziia]

Fact Saville was involved in wrestling it is part of the history of the game. When you airbrush items out of history you are on a slippery slope.

[@Alan-ss3xp]

Cue Hugh Edwards!

[@toxlaximus3297]

Back in the days when a Jim'll Fix It Badge was worth something.

[@davidjones6470]

Bloody hell Bell's!😂😂😂 But you got a good point

[@fernleystephens2436]

They're all in some landfill site now.

[@Isleofskye]

@@fernleystephens2436 As we will all be sooner than we think...

[@gcook1493]

Where's the sound gone please?

[@Pure-Minty]

Great TV on a Saturday morning 👍

[@Isleofskye]

4.00pm on Saturdays apart from Cup Final day :)

[@chrishopkins209]

If only that guy had been allowed to finish Savile off

[@trevorshields7347]

Jimmy's illegal should have been edited out. Spoilta good video

[@douglaswhite1879]

Good to see Saville taking a booting but he should be edited out of this and anything he appears in. Watching videos of times past is enjoyable and for those appearing must be a pleasing thing to know it logs their contribution for years for many to see. Saville however should not have that privilege of being remembered.

[@jamesmurphy4021]

What about Sean Reagan, Wayne Bridges and Frank Rimmer !!!

[@AlexGledhill237]

Ricco is a pure legend

[@stevenrose86]

Mark? Pete? What have you done to my algorithm?

[@tonynesbit9673]

Anyone remember roger,the professor, green!

[@peteraustin370]

Roger Green wrote a good biography...check it out !!

[@tonynesbit9673]

Hi Peter,he was my girlfriends dad.

[@finlaymcallister4421]

Lez kellett my great grandpa god rest his soul 💪🏼

[@vordman]

Your grandfather must be David Barrie then, or did Les have other children?

[@pauladams1915]

No audio

[@dachronicalalittlebitofeve6630]

No sound

[@unusedsub3003]

Adrian Street battered Saville.

[@thomasmcclean4352]

Mr. Jimmy Saville. You should have had a proper good hiding, like in a street fight

[@somebodyelseful]

Edit it and cut Saville out - this is a painful reminder of how a hero turned out to be the sickest **** there could be. Would have liked to watch but can't in sympathy to so many of his victims.

[@FallatioNelson]

Hardest man in the business

[@seannamadra5675]

SAVILLE?? Should edit him out?

[@michaelwashington8947]

Good watch until saville came on

[@Mc-kn9bf]

Brilliant apart from Sa-vile. Edit him out.

[@kevinjackson6387]

Now then now then Jim saville ohh dear

[@missumenimsatanass]

Ruins the entire doc seeing that phedphile child murder at 1:10. Hes rotting in Hell now paying dearly for all the attrocities he was responsible for.

[@bigfuzzball59]

Spoilt by having Saville in it...... All these GREAT wrestlers, memories of Saturday afternoons sitting with my Dad before he went off to work the night in Manchester printing the Sunday papers, watching all these incredible professionals, all household names in their time. Thanks for the reminders of them in this film !

[@dieselfan7406]

At least Saville got a beating!

[@greycooper1142]

Don't be a tosser.

[@greycooper1142]

Big fuzzball? Big idiot morelike.

[@mikeMCSG]

Interesting though that Saville's talking like a normal human being here. You get the feeling this was somethnig he actually enjoyed doing rather than a means to an end

[@billy9497able]

At least Adrian street beat the brakes off of him

[@2ndcornets]

Did a stage show once with a wrestler in the cast - Johnny Kwango - a nicer, friendlier, human being you couldn't hope to meet.

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

According to rollerball they were all earning a fortune. Les kellet - The money he earned from his wrestling appearances was not great and he supplemented his earnings by working a small holding and café called "The Terminus" in Thornton (close to the terminus of Bradford Trolleybus route 7), with his wife Margaret. On two acres behind the house Kellett sometimes bred pigs and once said he kept fifty head of cattle. Rollerball died in a care home in Warrington age 66 with dementia

[@mackembillyboy]

I remember as a kid, there was and old lady who lived alone two doors away and she didn't have a tv. Every Saturday at 5 to 4 she would come into our house, sit on the edge of the sofa shouting at the "bad lads" and cheering on the "good guys". She absolutely loved it, and it was every Saturday religiously.

[@ForgottenHorrorchannel]

Remember growing up watching wrestling since as far back as i can remember from the mid 70's till 1988 when they took it off tv! big mistake such a shame tv executives thought we all could do without wrestling.

[@sirdetmist3204]

All the people saying they cant watch it because of Saville, grow a pair and grow up.

[@allangreenley9901]

Exactly fully agree with you 👌

[@Alan-ss3xp]

The man was evil in the extreme. People suffer to this day because of his perverted behaviour.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Edit savile out of this please, I cant watch him

[@Alan-ss3xp]

Completely agree. The swine appears in a Peter Kay videos where Peter mimes a Tony Christie song

[@Alan-ss3xp]

Jackie Pallo lifted the lid in his book.

[@jamesmorgan1112]

I still love to watch wrestling on a Saturday afternoon my favourite is everybody’s favourite Les Kellett. I’ve got all of his fights and to this day when there’s nought on the telly put our Les on. Pure class and when I finish watching them you look back and they’ve nearly all passed on and that saddens me. Never mind there will be more crap on the telly next week and start all over again. If any of Les’s family read this message God bless you all.

[@matthewkellett816]

He’s related to me I think he’s my great uncle

[@carolreid]

@@matthewkellett816 do you know if there's a memorial to Les anywhere? My late husband and I were friends with him, but I didn't learn of his passing until some years ago.

[@daveenglish2]

james morgan - If you really do have wrestling films, why don't you upload & share them ?

[@carolreid]

Watching Les tonight on this the 22nd anniversary of his passing. God bless you, Les. You were the best ❤

[@christophersargeant6291]

My late dad used to love mick McManus happy days

[@SuperMarry23]

The history of English wrestling is often overlooked. It is rich, it is funny and interesting.

[@stephenholmes1036]

Les Kellett was a genuinely very hard man.

[@10_4goodbuddy9]

Good old days the magic of a Saturday afternoon tv world of sport classic loved it great memories

[@davelawday6609]

Thanks .. it's great to see all the wrestlers we grew up with.. my grandad and me used to love Saturday afternoon's.. and my dear grandad took me to watch it live with MrJack P and Mr Mick M on the bill... they were pure athletes.. regards Dave....

[@johnobrien8910]

loved watching it as a kid. with my dad. another interview marc rocco. said the reason the british wrestling on tv declined as the promoters never put anything back into it. they made the money bought flash cars holidays. america were behind us .put ploughed all there money back into theres and it became the multi million dollar.industry. that it is today. and the likes of rocco. davey boy smith. the dynamite kid.fit finlay.and a few more jumped ship and went to america for the big bucks.

[@stevew3196]

My Grandmother was the sweetest woman in the world till 4pm on a saturday.Then she'd scare the shit out of a harlem gang banger!

[@garethbramley1]

I remember this being on. Dale Martin / Joint Promotions lost all the good wrestlers to that other promoter (All Star) so ended up with just Big Daddy and a few others in the end. Savile got a good hiding in the ring and found it easier to molest young girls - *astard. He covered up his monstrous activities with work for charities, etc. I used to love Kent Walton's commentaries - he never over-reacted like the clown at the beginning of this clip during Savile's match. Max Crabtree is still alive and kicking -m a great guy. Sadly, Big Daddy died some years back as did many other of these wrestlers. Of course, all these hard, aggressive wrestlers like Rocco, Finlay, Pallo, McManus, Breaks, Haystacks were as nice as pie outside the ring. Did you spot Leon Arras (Brian Glover)? He was a regular in the ring. Kendo's manager 'Gorgeous' George Gillette was always made up with glitter and wigs and suchlike. 'Bomber' Pat Roach starred in more films than I was aware of - from the early 70s - but sadly died from cancer in 2004. Didn't 'World of Sport' die a death not long after wrestling ended?

[@blackhand8903]

Yep, good old days, we used to live 2 streets away from “King Kong Kirk” in the 80s when I was a kid and I watched the bout on tv when he died in the ring. I didn’t understand then but I remember my dad saying “ he’s in trouble” when he went down.

[@garethbramley1]

@@blackhand8903 I was watching too. I think they realised and cut back to the WOS studio.

[@Isleofskye]

Jimmy Breaks was usually nice outside the ring apart from the time he murdered his Ex....

[@daveenglish2]

@@Isleofskye - Breaks has never been found guilty of murdering anyone. Fact.

[@Isleofskye]

@@daveenglish2 He was considered mentally unfit to stand trial and had been suffering from senile dementia . Technically you are right but there is no doubt he pinched his Ex and she died from the punch. Technically, there was no trial and he died on Christmas Day, which I did not know.

[@michaelholmes4374]

Loved wrestling in 70s whish the Saturday programme had been longer 😊

[@burningsoul1365]

this is proper wrestling, no american crap.

[@peteraustin370]

We all loved it at the time !!...Sadly...you don't know what you've got.......till it's gone...!!!!!

[@fuzzfrancis435]

I have Jackie Pallo's book and it is an amazing read. I am from the USA and the classic WoS stars were so amazing to watch

[@psxgunman]

Couple of good reads if you enjoyed 'you grunt i'll groan' are this one www.amazon.co.uk/Wrestling-Simon-Garfield/dp/0571236766 and this one www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Good-Week-Till-Next/dp/1983116246

[@brucelee4214]

@@psxgunman rumours going around stating Steve Regal and Steve Fury bum each other ?

[@shauncorless8965]

It was Saturday afternoon ,and you just had to watch ,just before the football results ,my dad kept saying it was fixed and playacting ,I knew it was but kept saying it wasn't this argument went on till they took it off 😳 ha ha great times

[@tonyhornett1635]

How about Bert Asseratti Awsome

[@Isleofskye]

Alan Garfield. Dazzling Joe Cornelius....

[@johnobrien8910]

great days we declined in uk wrestleing marc rocco said the promoters in the uk spent there profits on fancy cars fancy holidays where America they put.there. money back in the business which led to rocco davy boy boy smith fit finlay and a few more who went to America.and in America it paid of to.be the huge sport it is today.

[@muradhussain7849]

Hi all you lovely people this brings back memories I GRU up watching it

[@ApriliaGuy1969]

Remember my dad taking me to see wrestling, must of been about 7 - 10 years old, met Giant Haystacks outside got his autograph, he picked me up and put me on his shoulders so my dad could take a photo of us.

[@psxgunman]

Lucky he never ate you ;)

[@peterfenton2750]

Still miss it..great entertainment..rocco your the man..

[@Isleofskye]

He must have died soon after your comment Peter. He passed on the 30th July,2020.

[@boldverg484]

Brilliant 🙂

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Mick McManus's syrup fitting well 😂😂😂

[@robjamessolo]

Was going to watch this until I saw Jimmy Saville was on it

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Saville should have been in there with them getting his just deserves

[@66kevsmith]

@@gbwildlifeuk8269 if those wrestlers had known back then what he was can you imagine the whopping they would of handed out

[@andymoores2090]

Obviously it wasn't sport and it wasn't for real but I loved it , new stuff hasn't got the characters it had before.

[@cidermonkey5616]

Thanks for posting and some great memories. Wonder whatever happened to Bert Royal and Vic Faulkner, Johnny Kwango and Seve Logan? Agree, Saville has no place on anything any more.

[@Chris_34]

Finally KZbin recommendations comes up trumps👍

[@Urko2005]

Used to love watching Saturday morning wrestling on World of Sport.

[@chrishencher9876]

One of the best les

[@chrishopkins209]

I could listen to Jackie Pallo all day

[@Isleofskye]

Commentator:Reg Gutteridge was his Uncle..

[@TARZANBOYWRESTLER]

​@@IsleofskyeHis Cousin !!

[@Isleofskye]

@@TARZANBOYWRESTLER Merci pour la correction Mes excuses, Sor.

[@martinbroughton6655]

Look at yourselves... keeping him alive. The man wont die until you let him. You put him on the pedestal, and he became greater than the law itself ... so huge no one could even touch him. You did it then and everyone that mentions his name is still doing it today. Your comments are what !!? .... going to change anything... No !!! ... I came to this clip to watch and read about yesterday's legends of wrestling and all that most people want to comment on is the one person society wants to forget.. my advice is shut up ..let it go ..bury it and let it be forgotten.

[@georgemoore2878]

Max Crabtree real name Gerald brother of Shirley Crabtree Big Daddy who used ride round Halifax in a open top sports car every street corner waving to all the cheering children Happy days

[@jonathoncoates9170]

Ya can't beat the Jim breaks special !!!!!!!

[@progfan5239]

His wife certainly couldn't.

[@TheInnacity]

real shame they haven't edited out the presence of saville . wrestling tee vee was a working mans ballet a regular bread and circus , loved the it . so did granny , she could let her hair down , Kellet was funny , mcmanus great timing , and the royal bros absolute adorable hero's.. kendo a scary menace ,.

[@rodtough2235]

Totally agree about Saville. Spoils it!

[@jamesmorgan1112]

I fast forward from that piece of shit.. so sorry to be as blunt as that.

[@buffmuscle]

We would call it the muscle ballet.

[@Isleofskye]

At 80 and unmasked Kendo still seems scary..

[@vordman]

@@Isleofskye Although he talks with great affection about his wrestling days. Fantastic wrestler who never lost on screen. Fit Finlay was another favourite of mine. Hard as nails.

[@muddy-maesuggins5149]

Thank you for uploading this! Great watch

[@psxgunman]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@henrytomlinson5371]

Great entertainment sadly all gone only it you like AMERICAN. WRESTLING IT NOT AS GOOD AS GOOD ENGLISH GOOD WRESTLING HOLDS NOT KITGING

[@sylviabolan688]

A walk down memory lane!🎀

[@Chris_34]

19:26 ITV dropped darts for the same sort of reasons.

[@NumberOneGeek]

I spent so long with my Grandad watching World of Sport. I actually became an amateur/pro wrestler in my 20s. Such a shame Saville was represented, but I'm guessing it was well before people knew what he was up to.

[@laksivrak2203]

Les Kellet was the greatest!!! Is there any memorabilia associated with Les??

[@criticalbill2090]

I bet if Gentleman Jim knew what we all know now about Jimmy Savile, he would had given him a much more severe beating!

[@dave8204]

Years ago there was a headline in the News of the World about a Wrestler who was overly interested in young female fans. One was quoted as saying that the others took a dim view of it and would deal him. I'm guessing from what became apparent that it was Savile but because of the people he knew they backed off of making it obvious .I recently read a good book about him where Adrian Street pretty much backs that up and says that he's only wrestler he went in the ring with determined to actually hurt badly, and Street was a very tough man under the showmanship. Basically he beat Savile up.

[@criticalbill2090]

@@dave8204 Oh really? Yeah, it does add up. Good on Adrian Street tho. Savile did have a lot of powerful friends. If you havent seen it yet, I would recommend the documentary Jimmy Savile and the ninth circle, you can find it here on youtube

[@briancross6726]

@@dave8204 what is the name of the book please?

[@Super241946]

Oh! fucking leave it out.......do we erase every villain from history??? Catch yourself on!

[@criticalbill2090]

@@Super241946 in English please??????

[@marilynjaynemiller9241]

There is only one KING OF THE RING... talented, glam, & sexy 'felxing pecs', gorgeous ADRIAN STREET..!!! My forever fave.. Mmmmm...nice...xxx

[@andysmith9836]

Adrian Street used to have me in stitches

[@daveenglish2]

@@andysmith9836 - "Stitches" ? Sequins would be more likely.

[@falsemessiah9902]

Anyone here after wrestle me ?

[@stevenrose86]

Yeah. They’ve broken my algorithm too

[@JohnJones-ej1ux]

I'm guessing the attractive lady is Rachel Welch

[@Isleofskye]

No it was her Sister Raquel Welch :)

[@pooddescrewch8718]

There was a Kendo Nagasaki in the US . He was an Asian fellow

[@paulmeads4989]

Mr kendo sir .... Can I ask you something.. Very important question.. WHAT .... WHAT ... WHAT ... IT 2 PLUS 2 .. .. .. .. .. Thank you kendall sir very nice to talk to you again

[@vordman]

They were wrong about Kendo Nagasaki never breaking his silence.

[@agnostic47]

Interesting. Most of them are so ordinary out of the ring, except for Nagasaki, who maintained his mystique until only recently. Shame about the presence of Saville.

[@jjmac3561]

No Andy Robin! The majority of those on the show didn't dare take him on. He thrashed Nagasaki. McMannus. Pallo etc wanted way too much money to venture north of the Border. The Crabtree family made a great living out of it.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Where's Billy Robinson?

[@psxgunman]

@feelings Are Not Arguments kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIqxdn-Fp6iIfc0 he was on World of Sport a few times

[@jamiebanner3000]

Did America pay ITV to scrap it? It's a bit suspect to me 😂... The guys hiding something... Because British wrestlers to me was probably better and in the Golden era was probably bigger, now British have to go to America to make it. It's never made any sense to me. Wrestling was as big as football... Yet he chose to scrap it from the TV... Who in the right mind would do that? There's never really been an explanation... You've got huge figures as big as football you don't just decide to stop airing it. It wouldn't surprise me if America did come in and try to destroy the competition. Because is it a coincidence that they started airing WWF immediately after when sky satellite first came out? Because it was immediately after it wasn't it? Was sky apart of this too? None of it seems to add up and seems a bit suspect. Maybe just a coincidence... But when you look at what America wrestling has become he must be thinking he made a mistake

[@davewright8206]

16:50 thats the equivalent of `two minutes hate `

[@johncheeseman1380]

All these athletes and performers being remembered here…..should it really have saville included? Can he be edited out

[@Marklad62]

Saville ruined it wish those kicks were for real though

[@Dessan01]

The interviews with Jimmy Saville have not aged well 😂

[@keithdeley7236]

At the end of the day it was all make believe and choreograph

[@djsimonrossprice9400]

Who was the deaf wrestler good he was....

[@garethjones2171]

why that tozzer saville in it

[@stephenstocks1074]

Is there a biography film of les kellet ?

[@Andyxp1000]

4.15 Hope it hurt

[@KeithDeley]

Pop star my arse.

[@MtbinMtbin]

No sound

[@philwilliams2505]

No sound at start