While on holiday as a child, I went to a bout with a masked fighter, I can't remember who, anyway, I was shouting and booing him them he turned round and pointed at me and roared back at me, I nearly 💩 my pants and was frightened silly all week in case he got me😂
Same here! Don’t know what was more entertaining. The wrestling, or my dads feet shuffling back and forth In his old slippers getting involved! Happy times growing up! T.V. Saturday 4 o’clock wrestling, then the invaders sci fi prog. Then the generation game, match of the day, Hammer house of horror! Then the Avengers! Fantastic! He was a good DAD R.I.P. Take care.
I saw Kendo Nagasaki live at the Elephant and Castle in London in the early 1990s, with William Regal performing earlier in the card, good memories, Kendo is a legend!
I used to go with my Dad to The Manor Place Baths just 1/2 mile from The Elephant in The Mid 1960s to see "Doctor Death" another masked, unbeaten wretler. It turned out that he was Paul Lincoln who was a Wrestling Promotor. lol Saw Juso Al Hayes who went to The USA and appeared as Alfred Lord Hayes and The Roclk's Grandad:Peter Maivia and mamy others for 3 years or so.
Ladiesandgentlemen, the referee has issued a second public warning to Kendo Nagasaki! Happy days watching World of Sport on a grim November afternoon while waiting for the teleprinter and the football results
That's right! You could sit on the sofa while calling for mum to make some toast and Marmite while watching Big Daddy trying to lift up Giant Haystacks while watching Rotherham United clocking up goals against Stockport Country. Then over to Dicky Davies in front of 12 young women with big tits pretending to type before we heard the final scores. Then turn over to BBC 1 for Dr Who, the Black & White Minstrels and the Two Ronnies
@@Mute_Nostril_Agony Stupid old MC couldn't count. It was. Kendo's FIRST. MC doesn't apologise, just glosses over his error - And a reminder to Kendo Nagasaki - he has received ONE Public Warning!
Don't care what anyone says, we all know that wrestling was scripted, but they really took some knocks that had to be painful. God bless all of these wrestlers for the great entertainment.
Yes he was in a tag team with Giant Haystacks for a while. Look for Big Daddy & Giant Haystacks v Tibor Szacaks & Steve Veidor, it is on this website. @@christophercleary6780
it wasn't quite a face turn (should be "blue eye" turn for the UK anyway) - he tended to alternate a bit between goody and baddy, he had four matches as a heel in early '76 -win over the Jamaica Kid, DQ loss to Steve Veidor and he teamed with Stax to split the pair of matches with Veidor and Tibor Szacazs that Lance mentioned.
Many of the wrestlers would travel to and from the venues together and would go for a beer after the "fights". Except for Nagasaki, who maintained his mystique for decades afterwards.
Watched often True Fun..took some cousins to a bout at Waltham Forest Town Hall Big Daddy came out to see the Kids and played a superb part. TRUE ENTERTAINER nothing rude no swearing no drugs JUST FUN ... Happy Days
@@benp5528 That's why he was always in tag matches -it was either that or have the bouts end in 60-90 secs (which is what happened with his few 1980s single bouts.) Having a tag partner do all the getting in trouble stretched bouts out to up to 10 min.
Kendo Nagasaki, real name Pete Thornley from Telford, England, probably never been to Japan in his life but his invented ring character was hugely entertaining and probably the best of them all. Those guys were all good pals with each other, it was all pure theatre, all staged and worked out in advance, then they would go and have a pint together afterwards....happy days, always great fun to watch on a Saturday afternoon.
Golden years back then ❤ When England was great ❤ We had the best This sport was great and fun My dad wanted me to watch with him But he kept laughing 😂😂😂My time machine going back 1950 /80 Great England back then ❤
Same thing happened to Kendo Nagasaki as happened to Kane in WWE, the second he lost his mask and started talking, he became a jobber and all his "mystique" was removed.
@@nickpage4333 Yeah except Kendo Nagasaki (who in real life was a bloke called Tony from Stoke on Trent) made being a masked wrestler cool before Kane was even a thing.
I remember this live you actually felt sorry for kendo having his face exposed. It seemed a very cruel thing to do then.looking back it was entertainment. We was all talking about how he looked and his eyes at school on monday.fond memories
Kendo could easily better most lardy TV men in the ring, but the Snake Pit proper wrestlers often equalled his skill set. Read Kendo's book, an insight into those Saturday afternoons on the telly. Really interesting man.
he was a Snakepit man himself. There's a quasi-shoot interview with Billy Robinson in The Ring (the American boxing magazine which used to do the odd wrestling story) in 1971 where Billy speaks positively of Kendo - says he's not quite in the same league of (catch) wrestlers as people like himself and Billy Joyce, but pretty darn good even so.
I worked for Peter Thornley at Moorcourt Hall is a sickering abuser of young boys. His manager Lloyd Ryan use to deliver him 2 or 3 at a time, he would have them collected in the early hours so the care staff would not see them. Anyone who spoke of it or reported it to the police lost there job and was never seen again. He had a string of boyfriends at least 2 of them had Aids, when they were getting on in years he would trade them in for a younger one yet keep them in reserve for sex parties. His current one Lawrence is 35 years younger, Thornley is a sick monster makes Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris look respectable in comparasion.
Kendo Nagasaki is 6' 2" tall. Big Daddy is supposedly 6' 6" tall. Yet, you clearly see multiple times in this video that Kendo Nagasaki is actually taller than Big Daddy. When Big Daddy is wrestling Giant Haystacks who is billed as standing 6' 11" tall, it is believable that Big Daddy might by 6' 6" tall. But, after watching this video I suspect Big Daddy is no more than 6' 1" or 6' 2" tall and Giant Haystacks is probably more about 6' 7" tall.
Yep, Haystacks, Martin or Luke, I've stood next to him and 6' 7" is about the mark, at the time it wasn't enjoyable watching him, he clearly was an unwell man, earning a wage the only the way he could...
I mc'd a charity show at Bath Pavilion in 1988 and Kendo was on the bill against Marty Jones. I also did one at Weston super Mare Winter Gardens and Steve Regal was on that bill with Robbie Brookside (a great guy) Danny and Pete Collins, Mal Sanders, Johnny Saint, Dave Duran, those were the days.
Anybody remember Kendo's ceremony after his last televised bout? Faux shaolin monks & everything them days produced, happy saturday pm's b4 football scores!
Another very interesting book is "You grunt & I'll groan" by Jackie Pallo.He describes in in great detail how various throws and holds are executed to avoid causing any pain or dicomfort etc.
If someone restricted your airway, you would put up a massive struggle to the point of unconsciousness. This isn't my opinion, it's just human survival.
Me, my dad and my grandad used to watch wrestling every Saturday afternoon. Their armchairs used to creak when a forearm smash was put in, especially if the baddie was getting hit. I watched an old one a few days ago (again) Les Kellett v Brian Aris (Brian Glover) great fun. Dad took me to East ham Granada once and Steve Logan was on the card. They don't look that big in real life because my dad was 6-4 and 23 stones and grandad was 5-11 and 17 stones. I used to ask them 'Could you beat him Grandad (whoever it was, Pallo, McManus Logan etc) and he would make the motion of snapping something in half and I used to laugh at that. Dad would say 'I 'd tie him in knots' . Me and my sibling were allowed to wrestle in the garden and I remained undefeated. Mind you, I was 22 months older than her.
They both passed away before American wrestling got to our screens. I never had Sky but in the tower block I lived in every flat got Sky for a year on a free trial. Summer Slam that year had The Ultimate Warrior beating Hulk Hogan. I watched WWE for a few years, but now no Sky again so I'm an AEW fan on ITV now. Some nice looking ladies on there as well.
Oh dear, I wasn't standing in quite the right place where we rehearsed... I'll just run over to the side of the ring and jump over the ropes and these morons will believe you threw me, OK?
When you realise this is what your patents were saying was 'proper wrestling' when they rolled their eyes at you watching raw and smackdown in the late 90s 😂
In the sixties he wrestled as "The Battling Guardsman", having served in the Coldstream Guards some years before. At that time he was a pretty good wrestler and had a very good physique, weighing around 17 stone (238lb).
Kendo beat Big Daddy solo on TV - Three times. This was the third. The second is also on RU-vid and it was the semifinal of a four man tournament - look it up on here. The first was Jan '73 when Kendo KOd Battling Guardsman Shirley Crabtree in round 3.
Count Bartelli beat the Battling Guardsman in '74. As heels the Stax/Daddy tag team were DQd against the St Clairs in July '75 and Steve Veidor and Tibor S in their second bout in April '76. Haystacks and Bruno Ellrington beat Daddy and Gary Wensor in August 78 WoS from Digbeth - away from the TV cameras there were more 2-1 losses with the partner taking both falls in 1979, 1983 twice and 1986 and Daddy DQ'd in 1984 and 1987.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402they met 83 times including several times a week. Daddy never once won by falls, submissions or knockouts. Usually a Kendo win or loss by disqualification.
@@andybt3989 Daddy and Stax beat Kendo and Rex Strong 2-0 in the final match of the late 1975 three match Daddy/Kendo TV series, but with Strong taking both falls and Kendo & George walking out and leaving Strong to his fate.
Does anybody remember when so called Big Daddy used to partner Giant Haystacks as a tag partner and one was as dirty as the other? Then all of a sudden. Big Daddy is a good guy. Just saying......
My late aunty was a mad wrestling fan. She would sit on the front row and always have a go at the "baddy" whoever they were Mick McManus or Jackie Pallo. If they fell out of the ring near her she would hit them with her handbag. All good entertaining fun.
@@honoredutrey How do you know the booking plan was done in the dressing room that night? It could have been booked days earlier at either of Joint Promotions's offices in Brixton or Bradford.
@@honoredutrey or maybe they all discussed it over the phone. Max Crabtree had a plan for his brother Shirley. Peter/Kendo was OK with making him look good and turning him into a star as long as he didn't actually officially lose a match to Shirley in the process.
Peter Thornley held sway for years a Kendo Nagasaki, he was the mysterious man to beat with his red contact lenses and his supposed hypnotic powers. Shirley Crabtree was the biggest fake wrestler(literally) everyone agreed a paper bag would be the victor over eight five minute rounds.
wasnt kendo nagasaki officially unmasked in front of his entourage in the ring once? this guy was unmasked whilst being in a tag match and 'hypnotised' his opponent to attack his own tag partner (mal sanders i think it was that was attacked). perhaps someone knows about this?
I was a big Kendo Nagasaki fan in my teens in the 70s but let's face it. It wasn't real. Both of them put together wouldn't have lasted 3 minutes against George Foreman. Mind you, at least they made a good pretence of making it all look real in those days. With the American stylle wrestling these days, I think they've stopped pretending.
Mick McManus told a story when Daddy was on This Is Your Life about how some bloke asked Daddy to do the bodycheck on him so he did and the guy fell to the floor and Daddy muttered darkly "Ask a bl00dy stupid question!"
I bet the nearest Nagasaki got to Japan was his nearest Japanese restaurant. Of course Big Daddy wasn't as big as he later was because if he had have been Daddy could have beat him in a few minutes
Really with a name like Peter Thornley I beg to differ plus watching him on Sky News coming out as bisexual and helping The. Lee Rigby charity you can hear him talk like an English Man
Some people are easily pleased equally easily fold biggest fix ever wrestling. All of it was rehearsed beforehand, wake up people out there smell the coffee and count to 3🥴⚡️🥊
No, other way around, I uploaded it here FIRST, a few days later, it was on the channel you mention. I had the video since last year,but just had it on my external hard drive,but uploaded it here.
