I loved Les Kellet, he was my favourite back when he was wrestling. If I'd been a couple of years younger I'd probably never of seen him! My parents talked about having seen him as a referee in Newcastle, many years earlier. Modern wrestlers could learn a lot from watching him. Very talented. He played the clown , but from all accounts was genuinely feared by the other wrestlers!😎
I recall watching Barbara Windsor play 'Buttons' in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham around 1956. As I grew older I needed more so ten years later I had already switched to Mick McManus at the Festival Inn Trowell (just down the road). They were both immensely entertaining but Barbara was by far the most dangerous. Mick's 'forearm smashes' were inadequate for even kneading dough. But he was a sweet little chap what gave this then lad his autograph, and many years later died of a broken heart within days of his wife passing.
Fun fact, my grandpa was a good friend of Big Daddy’s. I’m 14 and started watching wrestling nearly three years ago. When I found that out, I was shocked. It was like it was meant to be. If I ever wrestle, I’m definitely going to pay homage to him x
I saw Stevr Veidor beat Crabtree (,Big Daddy , at that time a heal) at Liverpool Stadium in 1973. Kendo koed him there a few weeks later. And of course Kendo kayoed big Daddy on TV on his first fight returned from North American tour beginning of 1973. All of it was pure show of course
It's funny seeing this all these years later - I used to watch these bouts on World of Sport as a kid in the 70's, I later got into WWE but thought there was too much dramatics and mic hogging, but looking back at this match, it too was all about entertainment - Big Daddy, Kendo and Giant Haystacks were all mates outside of the ring I believe, but as a little kid you believe they are all arch enemies and hate each other!
Big Daddy drew big money in England for years- this just shows u the power of television - as he was really rotten in the ring- just like today - TV makes ur stars - oh yeah he owned the company - imagine that
Rip Rogers your correct, tv does make your stars. there were so many wrestlers , who suffered from lack of national tv exposure, who sadly were 1000 times better in ring and on the mic, including yourself. Today is garbage. yes the move sets have changed alot, but not many know how to truly work A match, and can't go out and do a promo on their own, they have to have some goofball writer, who is living vicariously through the wrestler, write out the promos. I've been watching since around 1979, so I've seen so many who truly deserved to be in a better position , but unfortunately for them it wasn't to be. When I see someone like Big Daddy, who if they would have been in the ring with someone like you, would have been gassed in about 30 seconds, but due to politics, and the right tv exposure, became bigger stars than the should have been, It's just wrong
You know as well as I that you could own anything and that doesn't mean you'd get over. If that were indeed the case, George Gulas would've never been a laughing stock.
The longest awaited non event in "sport" on TV was the un masking of Nagasaki many tried but failed he turned out to be plain Peter Thornley from Stoke!
Anything but plain. in his autobiography, he reveals that he is bisexual, that he channelled the spirit of a real Kendo warrior, that initially, his character was going to be the "blue eye", not the "heel" but the promoters wanted him to be the villain etc, etc.
Here, Big Daddy looks quite trim compared to many pie eating years later…. I wonder how many people knew back then that all this was …. planned ? I remember seeing Daddy and Haystacks having a wee laugh together in the changing rooms of the Bath Pavilion. They even posed together for photographs. how do I know? My Father knew Bill the doorman and every second Wednesday in the month, I was allowed in before Show Time… I had an autograph book filled with most of the top Dale Martin promoted Wrestlers… It was always a grand night out … Gold Belt Maxine once sang a song on his Guitar in front of all the wrestlers on the bill, before the crowd arrived. They were all bloody good geezers and top „entertaining“ sportsman. Nothing compared to them..
Worth a look at this ...even just the scaffolding up whie there is works going on ...well in the daytime ..! Not while wrestling is on ..big men strong men ...KN takes them on ..the audience get there money's worth.
I loved Kendo! Saw him *fight* live in Taunton (The Odeon) the stage was - of course - awkwardly at the front of cinema. Who did he *fight*? That's another question.... Les Kellet? Jackie Pallo? Year... 1972>3?
The best Wrestling match was when Kendo Nagasaki was, I think it was Giant Haystacks tag partner, against some Northerner wrestler, whom accused him of illegally hypnotising him, to hit his tag partner. Does anyone know whom Kendo’s partner was, or who the Northern wrestler and his partner were, if they remember the match please? Thank you.
I can't believe World of Sport were so desperate for content that they bought in to this low-budget pantomime starring an overweight pensioner in a nappy.
He'd been a pro wrestler for years before he invented the Big Daddy character. He was a lot lighter and a very good wrestler but not popular on the wrestling circuit.
Ironically "Big Daddy" a k a Shirley Crabtree USED to be a great wrestler and won The European Heavyweight Title circa 1962. When ITV started to lose their Saturday afternoon large ratings on World Of Sport every week they got the Promoter:Max Crabtree to re-invent Shirley as this clown which made a mockery of all he accomplished before.
This was essential viewing when I was a kid in the seventies. Four thirty PM on World of Sport. Good old Dickie Davies.
Someone shud teach u the time it was always four o clock on Saturdays
It was Kent Walton, not Dickie.
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It was Dickie Davies who presented World of Sport.
@@markhemming318 yes but Kent did the wrestling commentary.
Was good entertainment
“Thanks for the
Memories” 🎵 Oh how me & my old Mum used to love the Saturday wrestling! Les Kellet was her favourite! I’m 73 now! 😂 Brilliant. 👍
I loved Les Kellet, he was my favourite back when he was wrestling. If I'd been a couple of years younger I'd probably never of seen him! My parents talked about having seen him as a referee in Newcastle, many years earlier. Modern wrestlers could learn a lot from watching him. Very talented. He played the clown , but from all accounts was genuinely feared by the other wrestlers!😎
I recall watching Barbara Windsor play 'Buttons' in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham around 1956. As I grew older I needed more so ten years later I had already switched to Mick McManus at the Festival Inn Trowell (just down the road). They were both immensely entertaining but Barbara was by far the most dangerous. Mick's 'forearm smashes' were inadequate for even kneading dough. But he was a sweet little chap what gave this then lad his autograph, and many years later died of a broken heart within days of his wife passing.
Fun fact, my grandpa was a good friend of Big Daddy’s. I’m 14 and started watching wrestling nearly three years ago. When I found that out, I was shocked. It was like it was meant to be. If I ever wrestle, I’m definitely going to pay homage to him x
Great entertainment in it's day----loved saturday afternoon on ITV
We had Saturday & Saturday mornings for WWF here in the states (D.C.). Mostly jobber matches back then but, it was still great.
The best part of all this fun was Kent Walton trying to be all so serious throughout this entertaining farce.Good stuff.
Kent Walton played an important part in keeping up the pretence that these matches were competative,rather than a scripted show.
Fun fact: Kent Walton was Michael Grade's stepfather.
@@staceygrove5976 He also co produced a very naughty seventies film ..............
It's wonderful this remember, i saw Kendo Nagasaki in Hull Québec and in Montréal.in 1986 I am french Canadien
The only time I saw anyone go over Big Daddy in a singles!
They met 83 times! I have KN throwing BD across the ring!
I saw Stevr Veidor beat Crabtree (,Big Daddy , at that time a heal) at Liverpool Stadium in 1973. Kendo koed him there a few weeks later. And of course Kendo kayoed big Daddy on TV on his first fight returned from North American tour beginning of 1973. All of it was pure show of course
It's funny seeing this all these years later - I used to watch these bouts on World of Sport as a kid in the 70's, I later got into WWE but thought there was too much dramatics and mic hogging, but looking back at this match, it too was all about entertainment - Big Daddy, Kendo and Giant Haystacks were all mates outside of the ring I believe, but as a little kid you believe they are all arch enemies and hate each other!
I think this is the first time I've seen Big Daddy loss a match.
Bid Daddy never defeated Kendo Nagasaki. I think he lost to him at least 3 times.
Big daddy what a great technical wrestler lol .
He was when he needed to. Check his John Elijah match.
Remember watching this live :)
Surprised that this was a loss for Big Daddy - he and Giant Haystacks were always booked really strongly and losses for them were extremely rare….
This was early on, just as Big Daddy was starting to become popular, but at the time, Kendo Nagasaki pretty much always won!
Formidable pair back in the day.
The little kid who shouts "What a big poof!" at 4:11
hahaha only in Britain
Sure he said big ponce as well a couple of times 😬😬
Great seeing some old school pro-wrestling!
Big Daddy was full of self importance, always scripted the bouts and this was no exception, he was just addressing the balance...be it a little
Always a clever move to turn your back on an opponent in the middle of the ring:)
This was the teaser for Solihull - Daddy almost removing the mask but getting knocked flat before he can capitalize. A good angle!
It's like a pantomime at the start
2 absolute warriors putting their bodies on the line ,don't make men like this anymore
Lol are you serious or what william Greig ?Wrestling is 100% fake and its unbelievable anyone actually believes other wise
@@marksmith7425 no shit sherlock
Stop it dude
Big Daddy went to the dressing room to find out how to start Kendo's motorcycle. We've seen this play out before, brother.
Brilliant just great telly.
Big Daddy drew big money in England for years- this just shows u the power of television - as he was really rotten in the ring- just like today - TV makes ur stars - oh yeah he owned the company - imagine that
Rip Rogers your correct, tv does make your stars. there were so many wrestlers , who suffered from lack of national tv exposure, who sadly were 1000 times better in ring and on the mic, including yourself. Today is garbage. yes the move sets have changed alot, but not many know how to truly work A match, and can't go out and do a promo on their own, they have to have some goofball writer, who is living vicariously through the wrestler, write out the promos. I've been watching since around 1979, so I've seen so many who truly deserved to be in a better position , but unfortunately for them it wasn't to be. When I see someone like Big Daddy, who if they would have been in the ring with someone like you, would have been gassed in about 30 seconds, but due to politics, and the right tv exposure, became bigger stars than the should have been, It's just wrong
You know as well as I that you could own anything and that doesn't mean you'd get over.
If that were indeed the case, George Gulas would've never been a laughing stock.
@@jonmeans2637 "Better in the ring" means nothing, personalities draw money not fake wrestling moves.
Must be early enough, Daddy looks tiny here
Daddy looked slimmer here.
probably in his original run
Rod James he does. He really doesn’t look that big at all.
@@loulou7963 Nagasaki is lighter too. He ended up at nearly 17 stone.
big daddy used that solid ball gut like weapon...
The longest awaited non event in "sport" on TV was the un masking of Nagasaki many tried but failed he turned out to be plain Peter Thornley from Stoke!
Anything but plain. in his autobiography, he reveals that he is bisexual, that he channelled the spirit of a real Kendo warrior, that initially, his character was going to be the "blue eye", not the "heel" but the promoters wanted him to be the villain etc, etc.
I've read his book. Brilliantly written. A very witty man.
...wearing red contact lenses!
Loved to heard what big daddy said to George!
He probably said "everything went as planned.We can go around the country using this script".
Here, Big Daddy looks quite trim compared to many pie eating years later…. I wonder how many people knew back then that all this was …. planned ? I remember seeing Daddy and Haystacks having a wee laugh together in the changing rooms of the Bath Pavilion. They even posed together for photographs. how do I know? My Father knew Bill the doorman and every second Wednesday in the month, I was allowed in before Show Time… I had an autograph book filled with most of the top Dale Martin promoted Wrestlers… It was always a grand night out … Gold Belt Maxine once sang a song on his Guitar in front of all the wrestlers on the bill, before the crowd arrived. They were all bloody good geezers and top „entertaining“ sportsman. Nothing compared to them..
Worth a look at this ...even just the scaffolding up whie there is works going on ...well in the daytime ..! Not while wrestling is on ..big men strong men ...KN takes them on ..the audience get there money's worth.
I can't believe Big Daddy lost.
Loved watching Kendo bouncing of Big Daddies belly over and over .
I loved Kendo! Saw him *fight* live in Taunton (The Odeon) the stage was - of course - awkwardly at the front of cinema.
Who did he *fight*? That's another question.... Les Kellet? Jackie Pallo? Year... 1972>3?
Ronnie Pickering's Big Brother
0:45 the old Paul Heyman
The best Wrestling match was when Kendo Nagasaki was, I think it was Giant Haystacks tag partner, against some Northerner wrestler, whom accused him of illegally hypnotising him, to hit his tag partner. Does anyone know whom Kendo’s partner was, or who the Northern wrestler and his partner were, if they remember the match please? Thank you.
ケンドーナガサキって…国際に来ていたミスターギロチンでしょう!…２代目なのかなぁ～懐かしいナァ、よくテープ残っていたね！
Big Daddy was a bit of a slim Jim in those early days
What on earth is that finish? Does the referee even know what planet he was on ha
wrestling is fixed everybody knows that
Kendo Nagasaki vs. Kendo Nagasaki- BOOK IT!
That should be at the next Wrestlemania!
From parts unknown. Plain Peter Thornley from Stoke hahaha.
Pretty cool
someone please help me understand the finish here
Pin fall to Nagasaki.
Lets face it Kendo, a Judo champion, and wrestled and got hurt at the Snake Pit, ... vs a blob.
Big Daddy was to wrestling, what Cyril Smith was to hang gliding.
Is that Sir Oliver Humperdink on the mic as Nagasaki's manager?
George Gillette.
Kendo not putting up with big gut wrestling tactics.
Keep it in the family....big d..brother of max and Brian. Promoters ..match makers....patent rights on the programme of bouts sheet sold at door.
WWF and Al Haymon...stole a lot from this.
big daddy vs Kendo NagasaKi, because youre big in Japan
If KN lost he promised to unmask ..if daddy lost he should have to promise to wear budgie smugglers on his next TV bout ...no XXL leotard
Can you call that wresling?
can you call wwe wrestling?
Don't blame Nagasaki, he was the real deal. But when you're wrestling a bucket of lard what can you do?
One big very cleverly choreographed fix
You've never watched wrestling before
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Of course I gaven-t I only built the rings
🤣🤣🤣
Big Daddy lost!! WTF. Must have been a good bribe offered to do the job.
剣道の防具にマント、派手なマネージャー、これがイギリス人のイメージする日本なのか。実況は相撲とか言ってるし。
I can't believe World of Sport were so desperate for content that they bought in to this low-budget pantomime starring an overweight pensioner in a nappy.
Shirley Crabtree v Peter Thornleigh
Shirley?
Shirley Not !
I remember him on the cover of Wrestling World after winning a major title in around 1962...:)
I always made money gambling on the wrestling
The referee allowed that rubbish!
Waddersssss what was wrong with it? I'm so confused what even happened
Smart marks giving daddy the boos
For his size bid daddy was strong
He'd been a pro wrestler for years before he invented the Big Daddy character. He was a lot lighter and a very good wrestler but not popular on the wrestling circuit.
This was a real fight, not like the American so-called wrestling which is all just a show.
I trust you're being sarcastic?
This was all show too. But in those days they pretended it was all real. I think they've stopped even pretending.
George hmmmmmmmm
Easy easy easy
Did anybody actually believe this bollocks?🤣
How is this even called wrestling? Absolutely horrible!
Ironically "Big Daddy" a k a Shirley Crabtree USED to be a great wrestler and won The European Heavyweight Title circa 1962.
When ITV started to lose their Saturday afternoon large ratings on World Of Sport every week they got the Promoter:Max Crabtree to re-invent Shirley as this clown which made a mockery of all he accomplished before.
It was closer to wrestling than the wwe circus
What a load of rubbish
He was robbed
You can see them talking to each other planning their next move lol. Entertainment for factory workers.. fake bullshit.
It's NOT real? Tell me it ain't so ! :(
It was a show, but only a mad man would take on either of these two for real.