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Greatest English Manager Of All Time 6 Years, 2 Months ago  
Wasn't Charlie McGee also Rocco's manager for a while? I've definitely seen a match between Rocco & Kung Fu Eddie Hammill where he was in Rocco's corner.

Also, on the "Battle Of The Brits Vol.1" commercial tape (c.1992), Sid Cooper has a bowler-hatted individual called "Mr. Modina" as his manager for a bout against Steve Grey.
 
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Re: Greatest English Manager of all Time 6 Years, 2 Months ago  
David was Charlie McGee the manager who teamed with Haystacks on one occasion wearing a t-shirt that said "tonight Big Daddy is finished!" I recall that happening and Kent saying the guy in the t shirt was a manager.IIRC the feud between Daddy and McGee resulted in one of the worst World of Sport contests I can remember when Big Daddy teamed up with Roy (Steve) Regal and one other to take on Giant Haystacks, McGee and Sid Cooper. I think it was screened the week before the first All-star TV presentation.

Correct - this was the bout I referred to above. It was the final blow-off match after about 3 years of McGee challenging Daddy. The third man on Daddy's team was Richie Brooks (future British Heavymiddleweight champion, no relation to Robbie Brookside.).

IIRC, McGee was wearing a t-shirt saying "I'M A HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN" (with "TONIGHT BIG DADDY'S FINISHED" as an hilarious backprint.) Contrary to popular belief, this was not Regal's TV debut - he had an earlier match with Marty Jones.

Incidentally, despite what is said on the history section of this website, the rest of the show that week was by no means "truly atrocious" - there was actually some very good wrestling on the warm-up bouts from Ian McGregor and Nipper Eddie Riley. It was really just the Daddy match that brought it all down.

BTW on the subject of Rocco, let's not forget his "personal second" from 1991, as featured in his World HeavyMiddleweight _title_ defence against Danny Collins on EuroSport from Paris, France. Dunno if she ever accompanied him in the UK tho.
 
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Re: Greatest English Manager of all Time 6 Years, 2 Months ago  
I have a tape of the Marty Jones v Roy Regal bout, it was from September 1986 and filmed in Southport and Jones wiped the mat with him. When I watched it at the time I remember how stiff Jones worked him and even now it looks very stiff.
 
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Re: Greatest English Manager of all Time 6 Years, 2 Months ago  
I almost forgot...on the same "Battle Of The Brits" video that I mentioned earlier, there's a masked wrestler called Dr. Death(not Paul Lincoln) who takes on Tony Stewart and is unmasked. In his corner is none other than Princess Paula...
 
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