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In the post-war era, a handful of wrestlers can justifiably claim to have become household names.

Mick McManus, Jackie Pallo and The Wild Man of Borneo in the sixties, and two or three others in more recent years.

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To even the most passing of wrestling fans, plenty of other very big names developed or were developed within the business, the likes of Les Kellett, Steve Logan and Ricki Starr springing to mind.

Another much broader group includes wrestlers nationwide who appeared on bills on a full-time or part-time basis, generally appearing as what we have termed undercarders and occasionally facing a big name in a main event spot.

Just to give a flavour of who we mean, let’s cite Leon Fortuna, Colin Joynson and Larry Coulton. But we could name many hundreds of others. These wrestlers were the backbone of the profession, working reliably and entertainingly, each with his own niche, a