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.
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 .
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"
My Great Grandma used to live for this on a Saturday afternoon! She was about 90 but the energy watching this gave her was something else. I can remember her screaming and jumping about when the heel was breaking the rules. RIP Little Gran..
My parents got a visit from social services as I wrote an essay at school about "what we did at the weekend" and I wrote "Me and my sisters sat on the bed in my parents' bedroom and watched the wrestling" 😂
Come back from the allotment on the back of my Dad's Honda, watched the last horse race, then grapple fans, football results, afternoon tea (egg and chips, my favourite), Dr.Who (Jon Pertwee), bubble bath (sailor matey), read an annual, lights out, 'till Sunday morning, off to Sunday School, change out of my suit, roast dinner, Sunday football on TV, play cards with my mum and dad, bath, early to bed, ( school next day). That was my weekend as a child....Best days of my life....Innocent.
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!)