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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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.
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 ❤
Anybody remember Kendo's ceremony after his last televised bout? Faux shaolin monks & everything them days produced, happy saturday pm's b4 football scores!
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?
Kendo beat Big Daddy solo on TV - Three times. This was the third. The second is also on TH-cam 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.
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.
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?
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 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...
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 😂
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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......
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.
I watched this match with father and family live in 80s. Miss you dad rip
Me to.
These were the original days of British wrestling, before wwf took over in the mid 80s.....
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.
You can't have watched it live in the 80's because it happened in 1975.
Wonderful memories of a Saturday afternoon watching with my mother
The worst entertainment in British broadcasting history 70's and I loved every minute of it!!!
Quite a few of us did😊
I was at this evening - it was the first live wrestling bout I'd ever been to, so I was fortunate to see this piece of the sport's history!
Thanks for the upload. Happy memories.
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
I also remember during the wrestling, the latest scroes used to flash on the screen.
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!
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.
I saw some great wrestlers at the Liverpool stadium, big Daddy, the Royal bros some great names on there
You mean pantomime, not sport surly
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.
‘Not my ears!’ The catch phrase of the great Mick McManus.
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.
This was Daddy's face turn, after this he became a legend in his own lunchtime.
I didn't realise he'd been a heel
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.
Daddy did more selling in this match than the rest of his career combined
Thanks for sharing, miss those days
You are Welcome.
The most surprising thing about this is not the fact the Kendo Nagasaki was unmasked but that big daddy was mobile and could actually move at speed
I remember watching this with my nan when i was a youngster 😂
Kendo was a wrestler whilst daddy was a tub of guts
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
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
Them were the days,Saturday afternoons, brilliant
Well shoot, this is a find!
This looked so much better on an standard definition TV of the era, through my childhood eyes! :)
Used to love the old ladies with their handbags and brollies
I remember sat afternoon wrestling watching it with my dad😀😀😀
Great memories for you.
Saturday afternoons at nan & grandads...high light of the week..!!!
Kendo dominated Big Daddy most of the match. Hot pin at the end
Had too
*Always enjoyed watching Puff Daddy on Saturday afternoons.*
Big Daddy, whose real name was Shirley Crabtree said that with a name like Shirley you've got to be a big guy.
So he ate a lot of pies , it doesn't make sense
@@davedoogan6650 the pies helped him to perform when the chips were down 😉
Shirley you can't be serious..?
@@adamkane7513 He was trans/drag on the off days
@@adamkane7513 I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!😖😖
2 Great wrestlers ...and fantastic entertainment back in the day !!
Probably the most athletic I've ever seen Big Daddy, his matches usually lasted no more than 5 minutes.
That was near to the end of his career I think you’ll find.
Was this a "passing the torch" moment?
Got to remeber as Big daddy got older he had 1 or 2 strokes that's why he was so speedy around the ring and he'd put a lot more wight on
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.
Big daddy was to wrestling, what Julian clary was to masculinity
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.
Peter wrestled masked in Japan under the name Mr Guillotine.
And he didn’t go and have a pint after his bout either
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.
That doesnt matter Kane and The Undertaker were the G.O.A.T.
@@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.
@@richallenxbox1976Peter Thiornley from Crewe.
Well that was an interesting match
Play acting
Big daddy couldn’t sell a brand new Ferrari let alone any of his opponents moves
He did sell until Max Crabtree decided to make him totally indestructible in 1979.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 that’s fair mate , I heard the same thing .
@@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 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.
Thanks I shall get the book and have a read 😊
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.
What a heap of rubbish that is
@@rogermoore-gd9do bitter neighbour by any chance ?
I remember growing up watching the wrestling on itv with my mum she loved big daddy what's kendos book called thanks for the memories 😅😅😅😅😅jx
His book is called Kendo Nagasaki Man Behind The Mask. Available on Amazon or kendonagasakibook.com
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.
Kendo and Big Daddy what a bout and unmasking,Kendo Nagaski was a Wrestler and half....😊
big daddy never ever gets chucked around as he fought kendo
That is very true.
About getting bums on seat proving entertainment, discussions before the match on how it could be played out.
When the mask was eventually taken off, It turned out to be Ken Dodd's Sagging Nappy.
This was absolutely shocking at the time, no-one could believe it.
Big Daddy was still abled to "Move"(somehow) there.
11:51 What the hell kind of three count is that lmao, are you determining the winner of a sporting contest or ringing the bell in a hotel lobby?
We used to think it was real aged about 10
Use to love kendo as a kid 🙏
Pure entertainment 😊we had it good.. nothing serious.. they were all pals 👍🤗
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 ❤
Great memories thank you.
Anybody remember Kendo's ceremony after his last televised bout? Faux shaolin monks & everything them days produced, happy saturday pm's b4 football scores!
@wealdstoneraider5364 The far East, Oriental af.
This is the most that I've seen Daddy do in a match. It was a pretty good match
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?
Not quite ! Brookside and Regal
ケンドーナガサキさん日本にも昔,来日してますよ。その時のリングネームは,ミスター·ギロチンでした。
この映像でマスクを剥ぎ取られて衝撃的でした。私は,ケンドーナガサキ彼の大ファンです。
日本のケンドーナガサキはダメですね。
Makes a change, seeing Shirley beaten
Kendo beat Big Daddy solo on TV - Three times. This was the third. The second is also on TH-cam 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.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 I was referring to singles only! I recall KN beating BD by KO in Cleethorpes.
Watched this fight Saturday morning, when I was a kid. And we used to think it was real!
It makes a change to see Daddy allowing his opponent to get some offense in !
At 4:00, the ref says "I told you to break Peter !". Oops !
Opponents regularly did get offence against him until 1979 when Max finally made him indestructible.
Yes cos Saggyknackers name was Peter Thornley
@@thirtyfoursevenzero are you one of those l00nies from Moorcroft Hall by any chance?
anyway, it actually boosts Kayfabe - gives the impression that the match is real even if Kendo's gimmick isn't.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 explain that fatuous question...
When I was watching the wrestling as a kid in the early 80s i don't ever remember seeing Big Daddy lose a fight so to me this fight is a shocker😮
In 1979, this was considered comedically fat
In present day, she’s a 6
Saw Big Daddy wrestle at Hinckley in the 80s. xx
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.
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?
"You can just see the head of Shirley Crabtree there."
"And Kendo's balls Brian"
"Yes and Kendo's balls as well Jim"
Thank you
I forgot that Big Daddy wasn't always 35 stone
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).
All the wrestlers were good friends outside the ring it was a travelling show Kendo said this ie Peter Thornley
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...
Wrestling heights and weights are always greatly exaggerated. Giant Haystacks was 6'7". Big Daddy was 6'1". Andre was 6'11" at his peak and not 7'4"
@@staticcharm3808 drop 2 inchs, an 20 lbs, 3 inchs if there over 6'8.
Who's your Daddy, Big Daddy 🎉🎉
Funiest thing ive seen in years😊
That one bloke who yells "OH NOW THATS RUBBISH" 7:16
If I wrestled in that bush league circuit I'd hide my face too.........I kept looking for Gordon Solly....
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 😂
Exactly!!
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.
@@jamesvoller167 KN is a Judo Black Belt and was a weightlifting champion.
Remember it well, happy days
Those were the days.❤
@8:18 #HighJump
Had to string out the match to give as much entertainment as possible, if Daddy had finished it early, would have defeated the publics excitement.
Kendo wouldn't have allowed Daddy to finish it early. If they'd ordered him to, as a last resort he would have gone out and shot on Shirley.
The bout ended when they decided the bout would end in the dressing room beforehand.
@@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.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402Had to keep bums on seats, many paid for entertainment, and got it.
Big daddly looks like a big toddler
😂🤣
Young Daddy
The only time I've seen BD thrown around the ring !
Totally disrespectful from Craptree as always.
Tiny ring
« A tattoo on his forehead..no wonder he wears a mask »…. Fast forward to 2024….everyone seems to have face tattoos
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.
that pounce by daddy is lethal 2:05
It would be if he rugby tackled you. He could run people down like a truck.
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!"
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402is brother Max's son, was eorl crabtree , who played professional rugby league, for Huddersfield giants.
Good afternoon grapple fans 😂never missed it
初代ケンドーナガサキは面型の覆面が斬新
what a load of crap we sucked in . great fun though for us to shout about. LES KELLET great entertainer.
big daddy was pretty agile for his size
Best days ov my life
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
It was play acting
@@jacksugden8190 It was better acting than any acting you get today
You lose your bet. He wrestled in Japan in the late 1960’s
@@Shads5 As Guillotine if my memory is right, Kendo did not want to insult the natives
@@mikelynch5153 OK. He gave that name the chop then
Never saw this one before.s daddy should have stayed this size
These guys earned their money didn't they 👍
Big Daddy is ultra dangerous.
All fun 🤩
The real Kendo Nagasaki was NOT an English man. And the over fat man would not know a wrist lock from a wrist watch, total fake .
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
Talking sh1te! Peter Thornley was Kendo Nagasaki. He is from Crewe.
Chill out all good clean fun😅
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......
All big daddy had to do was to sit on his head for a minute and the game is won
This lot should perform at The Old Vic.
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.
farsical .
I remember Masambula and Jackie Pallo.
Fix big daddy and kendo were friends and giant haystacks
Yes it was a work but them being friends proves nothing. You can have a real wrestling contest with a friend.
Kendo Nagasaki was far more entertaining than big flabby