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Entry: The Immortal Legends of British Professional Wrestling - A956324
Author: Nylarthotep - U200240

"Easy, easy!"

Brilliant entry!

We really are going to have to teach you GuideML at some point, though.

B

I would be nice!

A187229 - it's easy!

Just holler at a Guru or Sub-editor (ie. me) if you get stuck.

B

K.

This is gonna be a real tough one - people will be coming out of the woodwork for the next seven days saying "You can't have an entry like this without mentioning.....!"

So let me start the ball rolling with Les Kellet

Ok, gotta and catch a

I tired to go for the names that EVERYONE remembers to give a wide appeal to the article. The links are intended to allow anyone who wants to find a particular Uk grappler to go further.

Thanks for the input.

Les Kellet's trademark move was to lean against the ropes and when the other guy threw himself at him, Les would stagger out of the way, causing the other guy to fly out through the ropes. Hilarious!

Mick McManus was famous for playing dirty and snarling.

I originally intended to include McManus, but there was a distinct lack of material no matter where I looked. He was a little guy who got by with ring-smarts and dirty tricks, bit like a British Ric Flair, but without the peroxide and the old man flop.

Les Kellet was the name that sprang into my mind when I was reading this - that and Kent Walton anyway.

Great piece by the way

Les Kellet was extremely unpopular within the actual trade. He was hard and nails and vicious with it - according to the small contact I had with the game. I used to work for a public address company, and one year they set up a wrestling ring at the carnival. I was sat literally under the apron, controlling the announcer's mike. I got to chat with several wrestlers including Tibor Zackash, Johnny Eagles, and Mick McManus.

One typo for you - "But he was back in the ring By December of 1996. He remained active in the ring until 1993 when he retired once more,"

You seem to be chronologically confused here

Brought back some great memories of Saturday afternoons in front of the telly -

Top stuff! It brought back so many memories of being a kid on a rainy Saturday afternoons stuck in front of the TV. I can't think of any improvements, so I won't suggest any.

* sits back and waits for this one to hit the front page *

Thanks for the comments.

Actually, one semi-serious point.

Given that you've noted the circumstances of death of each of your highlighted wrestlers, is the word 'Immortal' in the title really appropriate?

B

True immortality requires that a person be remembered. The legend itself is immortal rather than the men that inspired it.

Anyone else think that I should change the title in light of this because if it's truely offensive then I will?

I don't think it's offensive, I was just pointing out the irony.

I think the word 'legend' does tend to refer to people a lot more now than it used to. Now that you've explained yourself, though, I'll leave it up to your conscience

B

"Legend" is bandied about a lot these days, and "Immortal" is ironic.

But then the article is not supposed to be serious, how can you be with a subject like this?

Good point, well made.

I'll shut up now.

B

Thanks for the input.

Hello!

Really enjoyed the article. Almost long enough to warrant more than one? The bit at the end about the state of British Wrestling at the moment was good but I thought a bit too involved for an article that was just looking at the 3 wrestlers - maybe you could split that out into a separate article, perhaps about the history of British professional wrestling?

A few typos : pursued (instead of persued), appearance (appearence * 2), something (soemthing), negatively (negativly), opposition (opposotion), mysterious (mysetrious), losing (loosing), opponent (opponant), popularity (popularuty), exploited (expolited).

A couple of bits of grammar :
try changing 'first team allegedly as' to 'first team as allegedly'.
'is usually has' isn't correct.
'Kendo Nagasaki was almost' is either wrong or my corrected version (I've made cr*p notes!)
'By December' should be 'by December'.
'While Hardcore fans' - need to remove the 'while'.
In the last sentence you've included 'the future is bright' twice.

Ok, ok, slow down...I'm on it!