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Post by billyfarmer on Mar 15, 2018 18:25:48 GMT
I voted for Big Daddy, I can remember watching Wrestling (on Saturday's), in the 1980's, I can also remember thinking that all Big Daddy, had to do, was lay down, on top of his opponent, and that was the end of the bout, I can't recall ever seeing Big Daddy, lose a Wrestling bout.
I can remember reading a Big Daddy Comic Strip, in Buster Comic, in the 1980's.
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Post by fordcapri on Mar 15, 2018 20:44:09 GMT
I actually saw them both (Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks) at... wait for it... The Memorial Hall in Cleethorpes, circa 1976. They were both very, er, large. Not sure which was coolest though. Mum said that Giant Haystacks frightened her, but that she liked Big Daddy. So, a vote for B.D. it is.
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Post by harryshand on Jun 14, 2020 9:38:02 GMT
A classmate of mine called Peter was the lucky lad who got to meet Big Daddy on Jim’ll Fix It. But I always supported Giant Haystacks for some reason.
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Post by harryshand on Jun 14, 2020 9:39:37 GMT
Kendo Nagasaki off the list for me. Coolest name and an air of mystery. Used to quite like Johnny Saint as well.
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Post by simon316 on Oct 18, 2023 18:11:28 GMT
Fit Finlay was worth a laugh, though imho
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Post by AlanH on Dec 24, 2023 1:21:40 GMT
Kendo Nagazaki. You could at least believe that he was a wrestler and not an actor. Big Daddy was just a joke, though admittedly, an amusing one. Of course, there was also Catweazle. I wonder if that led to Geoffrey Bayldon getting challenged to fights in pubs?
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Post by jjmolloy on Dec 24, 2023 17:06:41 GMT
Giant Haystacks married a woman from my neighbourhood here in Ireland. They met when her family emigrated to the UK. My friend was a cousin of hers, we ourselves didn't get to meet him sadly. My friend just called him Martin. They would come to visit her family once a year usually in the summer. This was in the mid 1970s. There's a shop across the road from us, and he would pull up outside, and his kids would go inside. He would have his arm out the open window, his arm was thicker than my thigh is even now! He had a white American style jeep, this was when nobody had a jeep apart from farmers or the army, and theirs were Land or Range Rovers, and Giant's was much bigger than that. We just stood outside our house watching him, too scared to approach! He appeared in Paul McCartney's Give My Regards To Broad Street, and his Wiki says Paul was a fan and they were later 'life long friends'
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