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RIP Mick Mcmanus
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Mick McManus, one of the top stars of wrestling in the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 93.
RIP
http://news.sky.com/story/1094282/mick-mcmanus-british-wrestling-legend-dies
RIP
http://news.sky.com/story/1094282/mick-mcmanus-british-wrestling-legend-dies
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RIP Mick, you provided us with lots of entertainment.
He was a designated "baddie" in UK wrestling - I remember grannies in the front row getting very agitated when he was "cheating".
Just heard on talk sport his wife died earlier this year and Mick was so upset by her death he practically pined to death..how sad
R.I.P. MICK McMANUS ..thanks for many childhood memories
The word "Legend" gets thrown around so much these days it means nothing, but Mick was a true legend in British wrestling.
R.I.P Mick.... You are one of the reasons I became a wrestling fan.
R.I.P. Mick
Another light from my childhood gone
93 is a good age. Wonder if his hair was still jet black when he died ?
RIP Mick.
Kendo Nagasaki
Big Daddy
Giant Haystacks
Not to mention Jackie Pallo, The Royal Brothers and my absolute favourite, Les Kellett They were salad days and the legendary Kent Walton, bless him, seemed like the only adult who thought it was 'real' Doesn't matter how scripted it was, for a very young kid like me Saturday afternoons were a thing of wonder.
RIP Mick Mcmanus. 93, what an innings.
Rest in peace Mick.
Glad this thread is in Showbiz, where it belongs. He was a great entertainer, and knew exactly how to give the public what they wanted to see.
mother swearing at him, Gran losing her teeth through shouting at him, dad waiting for the results for the Pools coupon
brothers trying to copy Micks Irish whip and forearm smash on each other and me sitting with a packet of Tudor tomato sauce crisps and a glass of Fentimans dandelion and burdock
I didn't even realise he was 93!! :eek:
If I reach 93 I will be happy.
I didn't realise he was that age either. He must have been well into his fifties when wrestling was in it's heyday on TV (and incredibly fit for his age)
His first tv match was on May 26, 1947 no less, on the one channel that existed then, BBC tv.
Though arguably the real heyday of British wrestling was in the early sixties when McManus and Jackie Pallo were the 2 biggest stars, as opposed to the Big Daddy late seventies era.