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Wrestling star Jackie Pallo dies

Wrestler Jackie Pallo, one of wrestling's biggest stars in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80.
Pallo, who fought before the Big Daddy/Giant Haystacks era, died at his home in Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday after battling with cancer.

The pony-tailed wrestler, whose nemesis in the ring was Irishman Mick McManus, was known by his fans as Mr TV.

Former commentator Reg Gutteridge - Pallo's cousin - described ...

El Texano (Juan Aguilar) passed away late last night from respiratory failure at the age of 47. Texano had been in poor health for several months.

As Los Misioneros de la Muerte, El Texano & El Signo & Negro Navarro in the 80s changed the face of Mexican wrestling from where most main events were tag team matches to main events becoming trios matches. Later in his career, Silver King & El Texano, as ...

Jonny Moss regained the title for the third time, defeating Paul Tracey on 18th Oct in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

Also, on the NWA Ireland Title page, it's listed that Paddy Morrow won the UK title in Nashville on 8th October. That match was at the NWA convention, and ended in a DQ, so neither title changed hands.

Ok, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling had its final card back in April this year, and I'm sure many of you have already read this on other websites, but I'll post it anyway since this probably indicated the "real" end of the promotion.

RIP - Kuni-san
Kunimatsu Matsunaga, the last president of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, committed suicide around 6pm on 2005/08/15 by jumping off from the 7th floor of a building in Tokyo at the ...

Does anybody have any information on Irish titles? I'm trying to figure out in particular what happened to the Irish Heavyweight Title and the Northern Irish Heavyweight Title and where they came from. The information I have so far (very little) is on my site here - http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmcmahon

Legendary British wrestler Lord Al Hayes passed away today (2005/07/21) at 77.

Read SLAM! Wrestling article for more detail.

RIP.

A New British Heavyweight Champion was crowned this month heres the details

All Star Wrestling Promotions
Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England
7th June 2005
"Highlander" Drew McDonald Def. "Wildcat" Robbie Brookside (2 falls to 1)

which mean the NEW British Heavyweight Champion is; "Highlander" Drew McDonald.

Also on the same night, All Star revived the "British Open Tag-Team Championship" by having two teams face each other with the winner being crowned the new British Open Tag-Team ...

I'm interesting about 8 fighters from 1980s, who supposedly come from Soviet Union: Victor Zangiev, Salman Hashimikov, Chimur Zarasov, Vladimir Berkovich, Andrei Sulsaev, Habiel Victachev, Wahka Eveloev. I tried a search on the web, but find nothing except their PPV/Supercard matches and titles, nothing concrete about them. , Hashimikov was IWGP World Champion, so he should be famous. Can anyone provide some info about this guys? They were legitimate Russians? At least they used more ...

I added "this day in puroresu history" on puroresu.com. Please check it out.

http://www.puroresu.com/

Not much info yet (especially title changes) but will be adding more.

I hope you'll like it.

On the Wrestling Classics board, there wasa discussion about wrestling in obscure parts of the world, and there were references to Emile "King Kong" Czaja (RIP) having bought "the Singapore promotion," and that he promoted with New Zealand star Steve Rickard. Can anyone tell me anything about this promotion?


Thank you very much in advance.