An excellent bout, one of the best seen on ITV between two well matched opponents. How ironic that wrestling was axed the very next year. If only we'd had more contests like this and less of Big Daddy.
I think I remember seeing a ‘real’ title fight on World of Sport where both fighters were clearly going for it and there was no pissing about. Does anyone else remember?
I have this fight on old vhs tape.i remember it like it was yesterday day and I saw them fight at the Fairfield halls in croydon.i have photos of that fight. Fantastic wrestles. The young wrestlers of today are not a patch on theses wrestlers.
I saw them to at the Fairfield halls in Croydon.thay ended up fighting out side the ring and in the coridoor.i have a photo of kendo choping Wayne bridge's in the throat.true wrestlers and and warriors both of them
Are they still with us, Wayne ran a pub in Greenwich south London in the eighties really nice man, I hope he’s still around he was having a lot of back pain then also.
Of all the wrestlers from back in the day, nagasaki was the one who I felt was a genuinely nasty person. A very weird persona. The unmasking with the black contact lenses was genuinely disturbing.
You couldn't be more wrong. Kendo Nagasaki was/is an amazing man. He's just Peter Thornley these days and a fine raconteur, as his book launch on YT shows. He's also highly active In the Lee Rigby foundation. Oh, and I almost forgot, he was the best wrestler ever.
@@vordman I think it just shows that Kendo Nagasaki played his role to perfection. Don't forget that the wrestling industry will always need marks like "the womble".
An excellent bout, one of the best seen on ITV between two well matched opponents. How ironic that wrestling was axed the very next year. If only we'd had more contests like this and less of Big Daddy.
Neil Davies i always loved watching Mark Rollerball Rocco.. he was always exciting especially when against the Dynamite kid..
I think I remember seeing a ‘real’ title fight on World of Sport where both fighters were clearly going for it and there was no pissing about. Does anyone else remember?
Hogan v Nagasaki? That would have been sweet
I have this fight on old vhs tape.i remember it like it was yesterday day and I saw them fight at the Fairfield halls in croydon.i have photos of that fight. Fantastic wrestles. The young wrestlers of today are not a patch on theses wrestlers.
I saw them to at the Fairfield halls in Croydon.thay ended up fighting out side the ring and in the coridoor.i have a photo of kendo choping Wayne bridge's in the throat.true wrestlers and and warriors both of them
Are they still with us, Wayne ran a pub in Greenwich south London in the eighties really nice man, I hope he’s still around he was having a lot of back pain then also.
@AlexDCl It's actually the world heavyweight championship.
Have you just unearthed a barch of new archive material?
Why does it jump from round 1 to round 3 with no noticeable break in continuity?
Another well acted. Show from the Crabtree circus
This is a Brian Dixon show actually !
Same
at 5,08 the after a posting the whole ring moves about a foot lol
Attempted murder plot fails, match continues as scheduled...
Was it always the same Japanese guy under the mask as Kendo? He looks rather pale-skinned here.
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KNessJM no The original Kendo Nagasaki in the uk was always Peter Thornley...there was king kendo after and then the americsn/japanese wrestler later
he came from the midlands peter thornley real name
He wasn't Japanese..........he was English, went by the name of Barry Smith........isn't it!!!!!!!!!!!
@@debowiec3 Peter thornley
Of all the wrestlers from back in the day, nagasaki was the one who I felt was a genuinely nasty person. A very weird persona. The unmasking with the black contact lenses was genuinely disturbing.
You couldn't be more wrong. Kendo Nagasaki was/is an amazing man. He's just Peter Thornley these days and a fine raconteur, as his book launch on YT shows. He's also highly active In the Lee Rigby foundation. Oh, and I almost forgot, he was the best wrestler ever.
@@vordman I think it just shows that Kendo Nagasaki played his role to perfection. Don't forget that the wrestling industry will always need marks like "the womble".