Me and my wee old granny watched this every Saturday afternoon. Oh please bring back them days looking back I never realised on them Saturday afternoons how much I was living the best times of my life .
I met Big Daddy when I was about 11 or 12, in Middlesbrough. After his match, where Giant Haystacks was due to be his tag team partner (he’d been diagnosed with cancer not long before and was very unwell), Big Daddy spent almost an hour signing autographs for the audience. Even sitting down I was looking UP at him. Spoke with him for a few minutes, having our picture taken (sadly now lost :-( ) and getting to shake his hand - one of the highlights of my life
I cannot tell you the excitement I felt as an 8 year old when Dickie Davies announced that Big Daddy was on today's wrestling schedule. I thought he always won because he was the best. But of course they were great (and very exploited) actors who remembered their moves perfectly. I found out later that I was related to Giant Haystacks (4th cousin - it counts!)
I remember every Sunday after mass sitting down with my dad and brothers watching this, my dad would be in stitches but we would be taking it very serious if big daddy didn't win. The good old days, oh to be that young and innocent again. Still brings a smile to my face 40 years on.
They don't actually memorise most of the moves usually, only the most important moves in a match, for example the finish. The rest of the moves are "called" and improvised. Still its a very thankless and underrated proffession!
@@creation3313 Nothing as a kid seemed to make us think it was fake. I remember when Kendo Nagasaki removed his mask and it was essential viewing to see what his face looked like.
My grandparents used to speak of these two as if they were Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. 🤣🤣 I showed this to my Nan just now and she said "they're not quite as good as I remember"
Anyone who is making negative comments about this, you simply don't understand the context of how this was built up to, and what mega stars both these guys were.
@@adamsmith4813 it does pal, takes me back to when the world was a better place, and when wrestling was enjoyed by the whole family. Haystacks and Daddy were mega stars, if only we could have gotten Hogan Vs daddy, would have sold out Wembley
Such beautiful memories, I think this bout was shown early afternoon on FA cup final day. Normally 4pm Saturday, yep everyone had to be back home, for Mick McManus.
Wrestling fans from around the world, this is OUR sport, outsiders can make fun of it all they want, but we will ALWAYS LOVE the sport of professional Wrestling!
My ex girlfriend was Rollerballs sister! her name was Lyndsey Hussey and Rollerballs name was Mark. Marks dad was also a wrestler and they owned a pub near Farnworth!
ahhhh british wrestling.....i miss it so much...remember eating penguin and club biscuits when I was about 7 yrs old watching this, then fish and chips for tea! .....man Australia is great these days but Ill always remember growing up in britain
The funniest moment was when Daddy fell on the referee and pole axed him. Then two blokes dragged his limp body of the stage. Classic Saturday afternoon viewing on “World of Sport”
I remember i used to love watching this on a Saturday when i used to go to my grandparents while my mum and dad worked on a Saturday morning. I don't know if it was repeats as i would have only been months old in 1981 but i do remember Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were the 2 everyone knew the most. I would give anything to go back to those Saturdays when my grandparents were still around.
Love @YllaStar95970's comments. Reminds me of watching the wrestling in the 70's here in Scotland. I also worked at Butlins (Ayr) at the time and every day was a holiday. Best days ever, wish I could go back in time and revisit those glory days. Bill
Might have been a load of bollocks but when you are 8 years old (in the 70s) it was real enough, don't know exactly how big haystacks was but I saw him live - he was like a walking barn door.
Oh how I used to love giant haystacks!!!!! I remember seeing him and big daddy at an event. To my absolute delight, giant haystacks picked me up, I think I said something like, big daddy is a bully and I don't like him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. It really made my day.
I’m 5’3” tall and weigh 116 pounds - I went into the men’s locker room not realizing there were giant muscle men inside. I was only the length of their legs. Looking up at how tall everyone was and how strong everyone was with their big muscles. They eventually looked down when they saw me. They flexed their big muscles. They then surrounded me and I tried to get between their big legs but I was too small and skinny. They enjoyed watching me trying to push them away. They were very nice and let me feel their huge muscles. Also they all had a chance to pick me up over their heads and shoulders. I will never forget that day.
Even though ive seen thus fight a dozen times(1st when 'live' aged 8), that doesn't stop me cheering Big Daddy........bounce that Haystack, Big Daddy.....😂❤❤❤❤
Used to watch them down the Bath Pavilion in the early 80s. I would hang around the back of stage area where the changing rooms were and get loads of autographs. Daddy and Haystacks were often seen chatting together as were many Wrestlers who were on the Bill that night.
I remember this bout. It had been built up for weeks. It was of course choreographed with heavily pulled kicks and forearm smashes. Haystacks was that panto villain and had to lose to Big Daddy who was the panto hero. Jim Breaks once told me that the villain and hero would often travel to a venue in the same car, choreograph the bout en route, and drive home afterwards. Audiences love a panto. I can recall two bouts that went off script - both involving "Strongman" Alan Dennison. In the first a young Wrestler smashed Dennison on the back with full force before the bout began. Dennison swivelled. delivered an uppercut that knocked the youth out; end of the bout. In the second Rollerball Rocco pulled the padding off a post and tried to swing Dennison into it. Dennison put on the brakes and swung Rocco head first into the post. He reeled back spraying claret, end of bout. Alan Dennison was not a man to be trifled with.
Gosh, brings me back to the 70's, World of Sport on a Saturday seemed to be on for hours, my Grandad would do the pools and we all had to keep quiet, then there would be the odd blackout and World of Sport finished just before Doctor Who (Tom Baker)
I was there my mum took me she absolutely loved wrestling my dad thought it was rubbish I was so so excited I lost my voice shouting so much my mum is long gone now but I remember it as though it was yesterday
I remember seein Big Daddy in Rhyl...eating his breakfast! It was quite surreal...seeing all these posters of him around town, then seeing him quietly munching his breakfast in a small guesthouse.
Gotta give it to him, for a nearly 7 ft, 400 lb guy he took a bump to the floor through the ropes which was unheard of in the early 80's. Sad when he came to WCW in 96 he had undiagnosed cancer. RIP
Actually it was pretty brutal sometimes ! I was the second for Harry the Hippie when he did the Empire in Liverpool and he got bloody hurt! He went to work the next day with a broken nose!
Fair play to Daddy and Stacks but have you got anything from the smaller guys like Dave "Fit" Finlay , Chick Cullen , Alan Kilby , Jim Breaks , Wayne Bridge , The Bulldogs before they left for American wrestling , Ironfist Clive Myers , Cyanide Sid Cooper , Bomber Pat Roach , Les Kellett , Steve Logan , Catweazle , Kendo Nagasaki , Andy Robin , Rollerball Rocco , Marty Jones , Tony St Clair and the funny referee Tiny Carr ?
Me and my wee old granny watched this every Saturday afternoon. Oh please bring back them days looking back I never realised on them Saturday afternoons how much I was living the best times of my life .
So, understand
Don't waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up... make your stand
And realize
You're living in the golden years
Listen to that excited crowd...sat afternoon entertainment for millions..happy days.
We were a happy little country then.. This. Benny hill . Its a knockout.. 😉
Have a good week.. till next week!
I met Big Daddy when I was about 11 or 12, in Middlesbrough. After his match, where Giant Haystacks was due to be his tag team partner (he’d been diagnosed with cancer not long before and was very unwell), Big Daddy spent almost an hour signing autographs for the audience. Even sitting down I was looking UP at him. Spoke with him for a few minutes, having our picture taken (sadly now lost :-( ) and getting to shake his hand - one of the highlights of my life
I was one of the Ringbuilders at Middlesbrough Town Hall, and a steward on the stage area.
I loved them days.
He didn't try to deep fry you??
Surely this is every pro wrestler's dream. To be over, drawing houses and making money while doing as little as possible. Iconic.
What do you mean doing as little as possible? All that cuddling looks exhausting.
Give Big Daddy credit, he was the only guy that ever brought kudos to fat blokes with white hair.
Sweet gig if you can get it. Helps that he was the promoter's brother.
They are both more over than Kenny Omega has ever been
I used to watch this every Saturday but didn't realise how bad it was.
Nothing beats watching two finely tuned athletes in peak physical condition plying their trade.
I thought that's more apt to Hagler vs Leonard kind of thing - not so sure about these 2.
@@inlikearefugee5194 Facepalm!
Hahaha
Couldn't have said it better myself! Haha
Love this comment ❤
I cannot tell you the excitement I felt as an 8 year old when Dickie Davies announced that Big Daddy was on today's wrestling schedule. I thought he always won because he was the best. But of course they were great (and very exploited) actors who remembered their moves perfectly. I found out later that I was related to Giant Haystacks (4th cousin - it counts!)
Geoff Dillon Just watching it now I'm realising it was acting, burst my little 6 year old bubble.
LOL@ 4th cousin. Someone in your family did some heavy family tree research.
I remember every Sunday after mass sitting down with my dad and brothers watching this, my dad would be in stitches but we would be taking it very serious if big daddy didn't win. The good old days, oh to be that young and innocent again. Still brings a smile to my face 40 years on.
They don't actually memorise most of the moves usually, only the most important moves in a match, for example the finish. The rest of the moves are "called" and improvised. Still its a very thankless and underrated proffession!
@@creation3313
Nothing as a kid seemed to make us think it was fake. I remember when Kendo Nagasaki removed his mask and it was essential viewing to see what his face looked like.
My grandparents used to speak of these two as if they were Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. 🤣🤣 I showed this to my Nan just now and she said "they're not quite as good as I remember"
Anyone who is making negative comments about this, you simply don't understand the context of how this was built up to, and what mega stars both these guys were.
Exactly, pioneers in wrestling. Look at it in the US nowadays, way over the top and shocking acting.Watching this now seems better than ever!
@@adamsmith4813 it does pal, takes me back to when the world was a better place, and when wrestling was enjoyed by the whole family. Haystacks and Daddy were mega stars, if only we could have gotten Hogan Vs daddy, would have sold out Wembley
I saw this on a Saturday when I was a kid, and I thought it was a joke then 😂
I remember being a kid in the 80s watching these pair 😂, my brother and I used to copy them 😅
This was the ultimate entertainment. Used to sit on sofa with my mum as a kid. Leaping about screaming at the tv. Happy days
The golden age of British wrestling…so miss the early 80s. Both of these guys were legends.
There fat!
Back when Britain was great. Not full of liberal wads. At least we got out of the EU.
Yeah watching for any of the old ladies at ringside ready with their handbags to whack Haystacks lol
And "Butlins" was considered the pinnacle of holiday travel, so you have to understand the standards here.
I would argue the late 60s to late 70s was the ‘Golden era’; this was the beginning of the end…
Such beautiful memories, I think this bout was shown early afternoon on FA cup final day.
Normally 4pm Saturday, yep everyone had to be back home, for Mick McManus.
Wrestling fans from around the world, this is OUR sport, outsiders can make fun of it all they want, but we will ALWAYS LOVE the sport of professional Wrestling!
How easy and how simple times were. I saw these guys live. Great entertainment. Rollerball Rocco and Catweasle were my favourites.
My ex girlfriend was Rollerballs sister! her name was Lyndsey Hussey and Rollerballs name was Mark. Marks dad was also a wrestler and they owned a pub near Farnworth!
Rollerball is criminally underrated
ahhhh british wrestling.....i miss it so much...remember eating penguin and club biscuits when I was about 7 yrs old watching this, then fish and chips for tea! .....man Australia is great these days but Ill always remember growing up in britain
Club biscuits....the orange ones lol...good old days!!
i don't know Australia seems kinda crazy lately
oh well, you have tim-tams now instead!! where in aus do you live?
@@jamiew1664 Perth
@@Tommyblueeyes i looked at a FIFO job there once, im a pom, but i lived in sydney for 19yrs.
The funniest moment was when Daddy fell on the referee and pole axed him. Then two blokes dragged his limp body of the stage. Classic Saturday afternoon viewing on “World of Sport”
😂😂
with Airwolf to follow?
2 amazing humans brought me so much fun and joy as a child absolute heros the pair of them
I remember i used to love watching this on a Saturday when i used to go to my grandparents while my mum and dad worked on a Saturday morning. I don't know if it was repeats as i would have only been months old in 1981 but i do remember Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were the 2 everyone knew the most. I would give anything to go back to those Saturdays when my grandparents were still around.
The crowd used to chant: Easy! Easy! Easy! Easy! Can't believe how ridiculous it looks now. It was life and death in 81, when I was 11. 😂
Ladbroke's suspended betting on this match. Loads of bets were placed on the ring ref getting knocked down.
Ladbroke's made a killing then.
Love @YllaStar95970's comments. Reminds me of watching the wrestling in the 70's here in Scotland. I also worked at Butlins (Ayr) at the time and every day was a holiday. Best days ever, wish I could go back in time and revisit those glory days.
Bill
I remember seeing a picture of the two of them in Tv Times in what they ate in a day. Trust me I don't even eat that much in 6 weeks!
Classic!! Used to watch with my Dad! - ROFL!!! Go Big Daddy!!
It was great fun at the time. I even saw Big Daddy perform live once in Nottingham. Fantastic atmosphere. Looking back, it was totally silly.
Theres nothing silly about having fun. As you know if you were around at the time, these 2 were mega stars.
How good was British wrestler in the 1970s I was glued to the tv every afternoon at 4pm.
My great auntie was tiny. She absolutely loved this back in the 1970s and '80s. She was also one of the kindest souls you could meet.
Look Big Daddy, it's Regular Daddy.
give this man a can of coke for that joke!
But not tall skinny Daddy!
Might have been a load of bollocks but when you are 8 years old (in the 70s) it was real enough, don't know exactly how big haystacks was but I saw him live - he was like a walking barn door.
This brings back good memories. I was always watching them every Saturday afternoon in the good old 70's. it was so funny watching this one again.
❤loved watching the wrestling back in the day .met big daddy and giant haystacks ,roller ball Roco .👏
Oh how I used to love giant haystacks!!!!! I remember seeing him and big daddy at an event. To my absolute delight, giant haystacks picked me up, I think I said something like, big daddy is a bully and I don't like him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. It really made my day.
Thanks youtube for the nostalgia!
fantastic brings back sat lunch time tv when i was a kid
I remember getting big daddy’s autograph after watching. First time in my life I was starstruck lol I was 11
I’m 5’3” tall and weigh 116 pounds - I went into the men’s locker room not realizing there were giant muscle men inside. I was only the length of their legs. Looking up at how tall everyone was and how strong everyone was with their big muscles.
They eventually looked down when they saw me. They flexed their big muscles. They then surrounded me and I tried to get between their big legs but I was too small and skinny. They enjoyed watching me trying to push them away.
They were very nice and let me feel their huge muscles. Also they all had a chance to pick me up over their heads and shoulders.
I will never forget that day.
Even though ive seen thus fight a dozen times(1st when 'live' aged 8), that doesn't stop me cheering Big Daddy........bounce that Haystack, Big Daddy.....😂❤❤❤❤
These two guys were my favourites. Always remember watching the wrestling with my family
Wow this brings back memories i was 11 when these wrestlers was about i watched them at the woodville halls gravesend
Used to watch this with gran n grandad every Saturday afternoon brilliant brings back such happy memories
I used to watch this as an eight year old and loved it.Watching it back now it is completely pathetic.😮
Use to love watching this as a kid 🤣🤣🤣🤣 looking at it now its well funny
Big Daddy was AWESOME!
Top match! Thats brilliant
Used to watch them down the Bath Pavilion in the early 80s. I would hang around the back of stage area where the changing rooms were and get loads of autographs. Daddy and Haystacks were often seen chatting together as were many Wrestlers who were on the Bill that night.
I remember this bout. It had been built up for weeks. It was of course choreographed with heavily pulled kicks and forearm smashes. Haystacks was that panto villain and had to lose to Big Daddy who was the panto hero. Jim Breaks once told me that the villain and hero would often travel to a venue in the same car, choreograph the bout en route, and drive home afterwards. Audiences love a panto.
I can recall two bouts that went off script - both involving "Strongman" Alan Dennison. In the first a young Wrestler smashed Dennison on the back with full force before the bout began. Dennison swivelled. delivered an uppercut that knocked the youth out; end of the bout. In the second Rollerball Rocco pulled the padding off a post and tried to swing Dennison into it. Dennison put on the brakes and swung Rocco head first into the post. He reeled back spraying claret, end of bout. Alan Dennison was not a man to be trifled with.
Gosh, brings me back to the 70's, World of Sport on a Saturday seemed to be on for hours, my Grandad would do the pools and we all had to keep quiet, then there would be the odd blackout and World of Sport finished just before Doctor Who (Tom Baker)
BEST SAT AFTERNOON VIEWING EVER UNTIL THEY STOPED
I remember watching this battle 😂 lived in Salford,Lancashire ,UK at the time
My great great gran would have kittens watching this lol we loved it 😉😂😂
Even the referee was part of the act !!
Happy memories, of being round my nans as a child, I can still picture my nan now, shouting at the tv, great great days
We used to settle for so much less back then. Great days!
Adrian Street, Les Kellet, Jackie Pallo, Steve Logan, Honey Boy Zimba, Kendo Nagasaki, the list goes on. Entertainers everyone.
Don't forget catweasle ha ha
Beautiful show😀👏👏👏👏
The crowd deserved a better and longer match but, sadly, the competitors weren't in a condition to provide it.
I was there my mum took me she absolutely loved wrestling my dad thought it was rubbish I was so so excited I lost my voice shouting so much my mum is long gone now but I remember it as though it was yesterday
My childhood Saturday TV ❤️
I remember seein Big Daddy in Rhyl...eating his breakfast! It was quite surreal...seeing all these posters of him around town, then seeing him quietly munching his breakfast in a small guesthouse.
Up there with some of the finest matches of all time 🤣
Pure fun. No one took it seriously. The Yanks took it too a whole new level.
the crowd was briliant
Amazing how they grew their bodies to suite their names
I remember watching this at my Nans house, not exactly WWE is it. Sock it to ya!
It took until I was an adult to realize that all this was acting!! But still it was a quality production with lots of entertaining times
Imagine being a new wrestler in wwe and vince McMahon says that your finishing combo is either the dodge, a belly bounce or a count out.
My Nan watched it every Saturday and took it very seriously indeed.
I used to go and watch wrestling at the Town Hall in Leeds with my dad and saw a world championship match.
Gotta give it to him, for a nearly 7 ft, 400 lb guy he took a bump to the floor through the ropes which was unheard of in the early 80's. Sad when he came to WCW in 96 he had undiagnosed cancer. RIP
look at the crowd !!!!! heat !!!!
This is real wrestling, far better than today's so-called WWE or AEW.
The good days ❤
Rather watch this than the virtual rubbish on tv now.
At least it makes you smile,unlike these other things going on
can we all spare a thought for the ring .................................. that's one strong ass piece of building.
THIS IS WHAT BIG MO GOT UP TO BEFORE EASTENDERS THEN
Ronnie Pickering!
Big mo vs heather
Haystacks was really nice guy outside ring he had photo with my mom at wolverhampton civic hall he was lovely to her she never forgets it
Would watch this with my nan , god rest her soul. She would waving the walking stick over her head shouting at Haystacks! haha
6 foot 3 Vs 6 foot 11? Someone's lying. There's about 3" in height difference max there...
Wow! Giant haystacks was one big dude!
This was the best comedy show of its time , can't believe people took this serious , play acting and totally fixed 😂😂😂
Actually it was pretty brutal sometimes ! I was the second for Harry the Hippie when he did the Empire in Liverpool and he got bloody hurt! He went to work the next day with a broken nose!
Bloody hell brings back memories old Shirley crabtree
This brings back memories I liked watching English wrestling when I was a kid I was 7 years old in 1981 when this was on
man, look at Daddy work that big bull's gut !
How old was these 2 at the time of this match?
Big daddy aged 50 and Haystacks about 35
Fair play to Daddy and Stacks but have you got anything from the smaller guys like Dave "Fit" Finlay , Chick Cullen , Alan Kilby , Jim Breaks , Wayne Bridge , The Bulldogs before they left for American wrestling , Ironfist Clive Myers , Cyanide Sid Cooper , Bomber Pat Roach , Les Kellett , Steve Logan , Catweazle , Kendo Nagasaki , Andy Robin , Rollerball Rocco , Marty Jones , Tony St Clair and the funny referee Tiny Carr ?
The real deal!! i used to watch this with my Granny
Great stuff on sat afternoon.
when people thought it was real
Good job that table with flowers on was there. It broke Haystacks' fall.
i love that they got the tiniest guy in the world to referee the match.
I used to work for Tony Banger Walsh who is in this video and he said they earnt a pittance compared to the gate receipts
British wrestling at its peak 🤌
Giant haystacks asked my nan out for a drink when she was a barmaid my grandad thought all his Christmases had come at once😂
Saturday afternoons with my Grandpa
Remember he used to have his own comic strip....in Buster or Wizzer and Chips (I think).
That ref took a great bump!
Wembley arena.....I used to go to the boat show there.....I think?? was it there?
Is this the same as Haystacks Calhoun that used to wrestle in the S.E. US?
Awsome!
It's amazing that this drew a hell of a lot of viewers. Watching it back it's crap.
Oh the theatrics! Old school telly entertainment, the jubilant crowd looked like they got their moneys worth.
That looks like the two of them put a hard days work in there