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Originally Posted by Mr K
No Big Daddy or Giant Haystacks or Dickie Davis. Very disappointing. I once stood next to Dickie in a urinal, he wasn't very talkative, interesting that.
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Unfortunately many of the stars from the original WoS wrestling have passed on:
Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree) from a stroke in 1997 aged 67
Giant Haystacks (Martin Ruane) 1998 cancer aged 51.
The British Bulldog (Daveboy Smith) 2002 heart attack aged 39.
However Johnny Saint, 75 (so agile!), Mick McManus, Rollerball Rocco, 65 and Kendo Nagasaki, 75 are still with us.
I liked the original show because as the BBC had vacuumed up the rights to major events WoS had to be more inventive on what they could cover and we'd occasionally get some banger racing and other minority sports.
It'll be interesting to see of they can make this work.
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