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Ring Wrestling Stars 5 Years, 3 Months ago  
There has been mention of the company Ring Wrestling Stars in many other threads. As we all know the Crabtree family used this _title_ in the 1990's before bowing out of the wrestling business.

Initially Big Daddy and later Davey Boy Smith were the front men for the company. Can anyone remember which other wrestlers were regulars with RWS and what in ring feuds were promoted?

Was the company a northern _base_d promotion or were events arranged in other parts of the country?
 
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I don't think there were many real feuds as they tended to be one-off shows going to ever town they could find to get one last payday from Big Daddy and briefly Davey Boy.
 
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Re: Ring Wrestling Stars 5 Years, 3 Months ago  
They tended to have Big Daddy in the main event or sometimes Giant Haystacks with Daddy usually tagging with Tony Stewart against a couple of masked guys like Count Von Zuppi or The Undertaker (not a copy of the WWF one).
The support was usually a rumble with the usual suspects like Alan Kilbey , Ian McGregor , Dale Preston, Johnny Angell, Sid Cooper, Dave Adams, Scrubber Daly etc.
The last few Daddy tags I saw were shocking affairs with a barely mobile Daddy in a T-shirt and trainers hardly doing a move before simply flopping on one of the masked guys for a supposed 'big splash'.
It was no wonder that hardly anyone turned up and no wonder they didn't return for another date.
 
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Re: Ring Wrestling Stars 5 Years, 3 Months ago  
The last few Daddy tags I saw were shocking affairs

But weren't ALL of the Fat Fraud's tags shocking affairs, for both the real wrestling fans who may have inadvertently bought a show ticket without checking out the 'main' event, and for the dozens of excellent wrestlers who were forced by the Crabtrees to job for the old blubberbag over the years ?? :?
 
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Re: Ring Wrestling Stars 5 Years, 3 Months ago  
The last few Daddy tags I saw were shocking affairs

But weren't ALL of the Fat Fraud's tags shocking affairs, for both the real wrestling fans who may have inadvertently bought a show ticket without checking out the 'main' event, and for the dozens of excellent wrestlers who were forced by the Crabtrees to job for the old blubberbag over the years ?? :?


I wouldn't agree with that because in the late 70's when Daddy and Haystacks started their feud both were relatively mobile for big men and some of their tags took place with a great crowd atmosphere.
The trouble was when people started to realise that every Big Daddy tag match was the same and business went down the pan.
We all know the formula by heart Daddy flattens Banger Walsh, tags in Jackie Turpin who gets pummelled by Haystacks (or Kirk) and Walsh . Next up comes the missed tag and Big Daddy gets a public warning before Turpin heroically makes the tag for Daddy to clean the ring do the big splash on Walsh and stick the bucket on his head.
I'd like to know if there was ever a Big Daddy tag that somehow didn't stick to this formula ?
 
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Re: Ring Wrestling Stars 5 Years, 3 Months ago  
We all know the formula by heart

The scenario you descibe is somewhat familiar

However, I would have to disagree with you regardingThe Fat Fraud's 'feuds'. The galling thing, particularly in the case of 'Stacks and the Mighty John Quinn was that we were watching guys who had previously swept all opponents aside with relative ease ( including some of the best British wrestlers of that time) suddenly become virtually ineffectual against a great big unfit barrell of lard known as Big Daddy. The real low point for me was watching a televised Fat Fraud tag match with the great Rollerball Rocco on the opposing side. It was such an insult I turned off the TV after about five minutes, which was usually inthinkable when Rocco was wrestling.
IMHO it was little wonder that many of the most respected wrestlers in the game decided to join Dixon.
 
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