why was it disrespectful exactly i have seen a few comments saying this the guy doing the interview was a real goofball but I wouldn't say that it was disrespectful
I read years ago that he's son was being bullied at school. He told them he'd get his dad on them. The bullies didn't know his dad was GH and he turned up one day to face the bullies and defend his son. The bullies pooped with fright and never bothered him again!
I worked for Joe Cornelius and Tibor Szacs in the 70s in their respective pubs in London. Met a lot of these guys, great fun and a good laugh. Happy memories of Haystacks walking to the bar to be served with the locals clearing out of the way like the parting of the Red Sea! Many fond memories.
I remember seeing the legendary Giant haystack as a boy many years ago when I was a boy and was always magnified to the tv watching the massive man beat the hell out of wrestlers.In the clip with another legend Pat roach who himself was a massive man showed just how big Giant haystack was in comparison.These men were hard as steel yet very modest and humble.If you heard Pat talk he was always polite and softly spoken like Giant haystacks.These great men are gone along with the times they came from.Such a shame and very sad when I look back to how life used to be.I just feel very fortunate to have grown up when I did .Even politicians had more backbone and integrity compared to the shower of sh.te we have today.R.I.P big men and R.I.P better times.
Jackie Allow v Mick McManus on ITV SAME TIME AS THE CUP FINAL....attracted more viewers than the soccer . I think it was in mid sixties. Kendo Nagasaki , Big Daddy Johnny Kidd great entertainment.
So many childhood memories, used to watch with my Nan on Saturday afternoons while my parents 'shopped' lol, was so gutted when it got taken off, every episode wished for Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks 😄
Is that how you came into the world, a product of your parents weekend 'shopping '???🍀 What a beautiful little slice of English romantic culture insight!
If that's true, then he kind of wasted his life being a wrestler. He should have been scientist or engineer or something like that. 167 is a high level genius. That's higher than Einstein's IQ!
@@zackvanhalen when my great grandfather was in the army during world war 2 they tested his iq and found that it was 154 this was considered highly gifted and instead of going through training he was assigned to work on engineering projects so this guy must have been exceptionally bright if that is true and I agree he kind of wasted his life
I saw big daddy and giant haystacks in Scarborough as a 12 13 Yr old kid. I loved it then and still do. I liked the technicality of the athletes of British wrestling. High flying wwf/e didn't kill British wrestling it was the establishment that didn't like the popularity of working class heroes
Haystacks was an intelligent, articulate man. It's a pity he hid behind a persona as he appeared to be a character and an extremely interesting individual...
Great to see this rare interview, I loved watching Giant Haystacks on my tv as a kid. He far out classed the other two male presenters here who were pretty disrespectful unfortunately. He completely summed up how wrestling was during that era and spoke with much wisdom. A true British wrestling legend.
I used to watch the British wrestling around my Nan's flat when I was a child on a Saturday afternoon, it was excellent fun and I used to love getting involved, Giant Haystacks was a absolute legend and gentlemen too, I certainly wouldn't have talk down to him like the presenters did in this interview..😉 RIP..🙏
I saw giant haystacks in Great Yarmouth 78 or 79 with many other of all the old wrestlers of the day but I remembered haystacks was without doubt the star attraction with the crowd an as he walked to the ring he passed me as I was going back to my seat an he looked even bigger than his 6ft11 45stplus I came up to just above his waist, gigantic man.
There was a bit of pisstaking going on here, I think if the presenter and Gabbacini had spoken to him that way in the street, they would be regretting it big time.
The mainstream media, particularly in England always treated Wrestling as a joke, which, if you aren't a fan, it is. However, even if you aren't a fan, you could still treat the guest with respect. I had the pleasure of seeing Haystacks live quite a few times and he was the perfect UK Heel! I remember, when I was about 9 0r 10 (1990/1) as a fan of Heels, I was the only one in the building cheering him. He looked right at me, pointed and said 'Shut your face!' It was an honour! :-)
I grew up a few doors from Giant as I approached my teens.Often saw him with Shirley Crabtree(Big Daddy) his tag team partner.Giant happily chatted about his American cars,he was too big to be comfortable in a British one.He was a gentle and polite man away from the ring RIP
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Even Saint and Greavsie (who were on before the wrestling on Saturday afternoons) acknowledged how sad it was on the afternoon of the final wrestling programme in 1988.
His most famous move was the "slam and splash"....he simply slammed his opponent onto the canvas, then did a belly flop on top of him....all 46 stone...almost a quarter of a ton.....result....game over!!!
Ian Chauhan I will always regret not taking my chance to see him wrestle.It was when he went to morecambe, someone I know ran a butchers shop and Giant Haystacks used to pop in.RIP.
I totally agree. Those squirming little worms of men, including a doctor!!! Lorraine really pulled that back on track. Treating him as a human being when he looked like like he wanted to be anywhere else but where he was and with the people who were there
Legend always loved Haystacks even though he was the heel...remember seeing him in action and when he elbow dropped his opponent i cheered and he gave me a nod and the thumb... awesome.
It's amazing to see how with WWE it's all pyrotechnics, expensive lighting work, music and in some massive arena Infront of thousands of people. British wrestling done in a community centre to about fifty people, still it takes me back to the golden age of 80s television.
@@edwardowen4488 no it wasn't i have seen some of that crap you guys have over there and it is depressing doesn't even come close to matching WWE wwf from 1985 to 1997 is vastly superior to the 70's UK garbage
@@stewartmcrae8007oh let them have it. It's cultural to them like old southern wrasslin is to me. Let's just like what we like and all be miserable with the current product. Haha.
Spent many Saturday afternoon cheering big daddy giant haystacks on as a 8 year old in 1978 much more entertaining than todays rubbish. Rip and of coarse mick mcmanus.
I will never forget him threatening to punch me when I went to watch a local show in 95. I was an 11 year old kid at the time and it’s probably the mist scared I’d ever felt. RIP Giant Haystacks.
My father met Haystacks in a pub here in Ireland. ( apparently he was really born in Kiltimagh in Co Mayo) He was a true beast of a wrestler and I hate how disrespectful the presenters are🙄
I loved haystacks ..davy boy smith marc rocco british wrestler said the decline in the uk wrestleing came because.the uk promoters.spent there profits. on fancy. holidays big fancy cars put nothing back into the business.the americans put lots back in.and have the huge sport they have today. rocco fit finlay dynamite kidd.davy boy smith..those guys went to America as we declined . the Jackie pallo v mick MacManus contest lasted 25 minutes big daddy and haystacks 5 minutes. r.i.p haystacks
Haystacks is right, British wrestling is the best and still is today IMO. Even if you just watch WWE the NXT UK brand more often then not has the best matches. It was shame ITV discontinued wrestling from it's coverage it really was an institution. Grannies and wrestling that was huge thing back in the day as well, my Nan really got into every match cheering on the likes of Big Daddy.
@@leeturbo2008 Yeah I get that and I know weighing 700lbs isn't healthy but they invited the guy to appear on the show, at least show him a little respect.
Seen here wrestling with his regular partner Drew McDonald RIP, and it will be the 6th anniversary of his death this week. I interviewed Drew twice and he had intended to write his memoirs which included the story about them both sitting outside a venue and two little old ladies shyly approaching them and asking for their autograph. Luke and Drew duly obliged but when the ladies thanked them and walked away, they came back, ripped up the autograph and said, “you’re not Chas and Dave”. Really wish Drew had lived long enough to write his autobiography, I miss him very much. RIP Highlander from Hell
@@71canaries He was indeed Hayden, and such a character - always spoke his mind. But he was so passionate about the squared circle, had wrestled all over the world and was talent scout for WWE of course. I didn’t know how he was ever going to retire, he loved it so much. But in the end he got stomach cancer - as did Pat Roach and Haystacks. Wonder if it’s the blows to the stomach they received were to blame.
I was born too late to get into that era of wrestling but I've heard from family members how popular it was back then. I did get to witness Haystacks short run in WCW but that obviously . The wrestling I grew up on was very different from the old British style of pro wrestling but when you strip everything down to the basics it's pretty much the same. Somebody the fans hate fighting against somebody the fans love. Pro wrestling when done well is as close to modern day theatre as it gets but with the sports aspect included. I miss the days when wrestling was genuinely captivating and unmissable
@@musicuniverse1356 Yeah, sadly he had cancer so never got a proper chance at fulfilling his potential in the USA. I grew up hearing older family members talk about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy but at the time when I saw Loch Ness I never knew he was Giant Haystacks. I found out soon after as I got a little older. I wish I was around when British wrestling was popular because it sounds like everybody watched it and really got involved but I have to confess that when I was a teenager during the attitude era watching WWF every day I remember watching some old footage of world of sport and being pretty disappointed/underwhelmed 😅 That is understandable though considering that I was used to seeing guys thrown off of cells and split wide open with sledgehammers and now I'm watching two obese men giving each other armbars and chops for twenty minutes 😅 Fortunately I went on to appreciate British wrestling and eventually understood why it became popular and why it is beloved to this very day.
He truly was a gentle giant out of the ring he's taken on many other giants in his career against The Giant,André The Giant,Kamala, One Man Gang, and Big Cat Ernie Ladd and he was so respected the interviewer called him "Sir" on more than one occasion truly a legend of the business ✌🏾🤘🏾👍🏾🇬🇧
When Mike "Z-grade interviewer" Morris said he was trying to make him angry, i'm sure Ruane was thinking "you've been succeeding from the moment i sat here"
Such a humble and great human being dosen’t deserve such a disrespectful interview.
why was it disrespectful exactly i have seen a few comments saying this the guy doing the interview was a real goofball but I wouldn't say that it was disrespectful
I read years ago that he's son was being bullied at school. He told them he'd get his dad on them. The bullies didn't know his dad was GH and he turned up one day to face the bullies and defend his son. The bullies pooped with fright and never bothered him again!
Never seen him interviewed before but what a lovely man he was RIP giant haystacks
I was 20 odd in the 80s
& I used to sit with my nan
Sat afternoon & watch these guys.
British wrestling heroes
Salute you all...
'What do I call you?'
'Sir will do'
Legend!
Stax was the man! Always my slightly terrifying favourite as a kid.
Well who's gonna argue with him !
Of course. Everyone else is too small to argue with him.
Martin Ruane, what a gentleman, we miss you Haystacks 😢
R.I.P to all my favourite Wrestlers from the 70s/80s who gave me so much fun as a kid.
and from me to..
I worked for Joe Cornelius and Tibor Szacs in the 70s in their respective pubs in London. Met a lot of these guys, great fun and a good laugh. Happy memories of Haystacks walking to the bar to be served with the locals clearing out of the way like the parting of the Red Sea! Many fond memories.
@@dieselfan7406 yes he was a larger than life character.most of those guys were really nice outside of ring. R.I.P. to them all who have left us..
Amen!
@@TheDark_Paradise with you on that...
Such a softly spoken man, a real nice guy as this proves.
I remember seeing the legendary Giant haystack as a boy many years ago when I was a boy and was always magnified to the tv watching the massive man beat the hell out of wrestlers.In the clip with another legend Pat roach who himself was a massive man showed just how big Giant haystack was in comparison.These men were hard as steel yet very modest and humble.If you heard Pat talk he was always polite and softly spoken like Giant haystacks.These great men are gone along with the times they came from.Such a shame and very sad when I look back to how life used to be.I just feel very fortunate to have grown up when I did .Even politicians had more backbone and integrity compared to the shower of sh.te we have today.R.I.P big men and R.I.P better times.
Jackie Allow v Mick McManus on ITV SAME TIME AS THE CUP FINAL....attracted more viewers than the soccer . I think it was in mid sixties. Kendo Nagasaki , Big Daddy Johnny Kidd great entertainment.
As that 'interview' went on I was praying that Haystacks would chin Mike Morris.
Pity he didn't - Morris was a complete *wat here.
Mike Morris was one those types of interviewers that Steve Coogan detested and modeled Alan Partridge on ( amongst others)
The interviews are just very rude and condescending to him and he is a good gentle person. Worthy of respect
It's pre-scripted and rehearsed. Fecking marks.
Awkward bloody interview for such an amazing entertainer.
So many childhood memories, used to watch with my Nan on Saturday afternoons while my parents 'shopped' lol, was so gutted when it got taken off, every episode wished for Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks 😄
Is that how you came into the world, a product of your parents weekend 'shopping '???🍀
What a beautiful little slice of English romantic culture insight!
He actually tested 167 on a iq test back in 1991 incredible
I think an intelligent man don't wanna be so fat like Haystacks.He wasted his life
in a fat mountain.
If that's true, then he kind of wasted his life being a wrestler. He should have been scientist or engineer or something like that. 167 is a high level genius. That's higher than Einstein's IQ!
Heavyweight wrestlers can be articulate and well educated
@@zackvanhalen when my great grandfather was in the army during world war 2 they tested his iq and found that it was 154 this was considered highly gifted and instead of going through training he was assigned to work on engineering projects so this guy must have been exceptionally bright if that is true and I agree he kind of wasted his life
@@zackvanhalen if haystacks became a scientist instead i could imagine he would just be a very tall skinny man and possibly clean shaven.
This was pretty disrespectful. Maybe ask him something that isn’t about his size.
He called himself giant haystacks. And his career was built on his size.
I saw big daddy and giant haystacks in Scarborough as a 12 13 Yr old kid. I loved it then and still do. I liked the technicality of the athletes of British wrestling. High flying wwf/e didn't kill British wrestling it was the establishment that didn't like the popularity of working class heroes
I actually live in Scarborough Ontario Canada. Which was named after your Scarborough
Haystacks was an intelligent, articulate man. It's a pity he hid behind a persona as he appeared to be a character and an extremely interesting individual...
Great to see this rare interview, I loved watching Giant Haystacks on my tv as a kid. He far out classed the other two male presenters here who were pretty disrespectful unfortunately. He completely summed up how wrestling was during that era and spoke with much wisdom. A true British wrestling legend.
I used to watch the British wrestling around my Nan's flat when I was a child on a Saturday afternoon, it was excellent fun and I used to love getting involved, Giant Haystacks was a absolute legend and gentlemen too, I certainly wouldn't have talk down to him like the presenters did in this interview..😉 RIP..🙏
Saturday afternoons, back in the day.
Great fun......Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks etc...⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
*Catweasel
*Rasputin
*Skull Murphy (Brian Glover)
*Fit Finlay
👍👍🇬🇧
I remember watching this when it was on originally!!
I was 11 years old!!
Why do the presenters embarrass themselves by patronising him!! Giant Haystacks (Mr Luke Ruane) was a very articulate man.
Geoff Dillon Martin Austin Ruane, not Luke
@@ianmcfadden5450 She's getting mixed up with Luke McMasters which was another name Martin went under.
Very well spoken man, interviewers needed to be slapped.
Wow, that wrestling match was one of the most exiting, dynamic and tense I have ever seen.
I saw giant haystacks in Great Yarmouth 78 or 79 with many other of all the old wrestlers of the day but I remembered haystacks was without doubt the star attraction with the crowd an as he walked to the ring he passed me as I was going back to my seat an he looked even bigger than his 6ft11 45stplus I came up to just above his waist, gigantic man.
That was his billed height, he was never 6'11", he was no more than 6'7" in real life, still bloody huge!
Used to watch giant haystacks in Guildford civic hall .loved to had met him in person was a legend
HAD MANY HAPPY TIMES WATCHING BRITISH WRESTLING
My grandad met giant haystacks in a car park when he was wrestling in Nottingham RIP giant haystacks nothing like his wrestling character
I met him many times in Sneinton market, he was a gentle giant
@@tonynightingale7356 Tony what was his height in your honest opinion ?
There was a bit of pisstaking going on here, I think if the presenter and Gabbacini had spoken to him that way in the street, they would be regretting it big time.
Giant Haystacks should've splashed them, I bet they would've stayed down for a long, long time.
Kurgle Kreutzer permanently I’d say
It was an agreed upon work! The whole interview was a work ffs lol
Seemed like a thoughtful and philosophical man
Absolutely.. Very articulate and what a warrior of a man, his last matches in WCW he was already ailing with Lymphona..
The mainstream media, particularly in England always treated Wrestling as a joke, which, if you aren't a fan, it is.
However, even if you aren't a fan, you could still treat the guest with respect.
I had the pleasure of seeing Haystacks live quite a few times and he was the perfect UK Heel!
I remember, when I was about 9 0r 10 (1990/1) as a fan of Heels, I was the only one in the building cheering him. He looked right at me, pointed and said 'Shut your face!'
It was an honour! :-)
The video clip included another legend, Pat Roach. Many moons ago but I can still watch all these guys for hours on UA-cam.
Encouraging violence to children isn't good
R.i.P giant haystacks great video upload 👌
I grew up a few doors from Giant as I approached my teens.Often saw him with Shirley Crabtree(Big Daddy) his tag team partner.Giant happily chatted about his American cars,he was too big to be comfortable in a British one.He was a gentle and polite man away from the ring RIP
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How tall was Giant Haystacks in your honest opinion ?
Where in sedgely park?
One stone at birth must be a world record!
Well done to Mrs Haystacks.
Bet her fanny looked like a punched lasagne after he popped out 😆
Sorry im not into big men
14lb...not even close...
Paul Gambaccini saying god bless Cyril Smith as not aged well😂😂😂
Even Saint and Greavsie (who were on before the wrestling on Saturday afternoons) acknowledged how sad it was on the afternoon of the final wrestling programme in 1988.
His most famous move was the "slam and splash"....he simply slammed his opponent onto the canvas, then did a belly flop on top of him....all 46 stone...almost a quarter of a ton.....result....game over!!!
40 stone is quarter of a ton, Haystacks at one point was 50 stone.
Watched him wrestle ar De Monfort halls in Leicester many times, what a legend!
Ian Chauhan I will always regret not taking my chance to see him wrestle.It was when he went to morecambe, someone I know ran a butchers shop and Giant Haystacks used to pop in.RIP.
@@stevenwade7466 despite his rough appearance, he was such a nice guy, there will never be another like him, absolute gentleman
I totally agree. Those squirming little worms of men, including a doctor!!! Lorraine really pulled that back on track. Treating him as a human being when he looked like like he wanted to be anywhere else but where he was and with the people who were there
That was hard to watch, with those presenters. The big man came across well though.
My thoughts exactly, i sadly couldn't get past the first few minutes.
Used to watch it with my grandma I would love to meet him a true gentle giant RIP
The Heavyweight title was passed around between Giant Haystacks, Big Daddy, Wayne Bridges, Kendo Nagasaki and John Quinn.
Entertaining stuff.
RIP brilliant wrestler 👍.
Legend always loved Haystacks even though he was the heel...remember seeing him in action and when he elbow dropped his opponent i cheered and he gave me a nod and the thumb... awesome.
That is absolutely awesome. Cheers.
It's amazing to see how with WWE it's all pyrotechnics, expensive lighting work, music and in some massive arena Infront of thousands of people. British wrestling done in a community centre to about fifty people, still it takes me back to the golden age of 80s television.
British wrestling back in the day so much better than what wwe is now!
@@edwardowen4488 no it wasn't i have seen some of that crap you guys have over there and it is depressing doesn't even come close to matching WWE wwf from 1985 to 1997 is vastly superior to the 70's UK garbage
@@stewartmcrae8007oh let them have it. It's cultural to them like old southern wrasslin is to me. Let's just like what we like and all be miserable with the current product. Haha.
this is amazing LMAO 😆 Thank you for uploading
Certainly seemed to be a gentleman and a gentle giant.
Giant Haystacks... a REAL wrestler! Total Legend!
sounds a gentle giant RIP
Never seen so many eggshells lightly treaded on than in this clip ...everybody looked as if they were crapping themselves...very funny !!
On a Saturday evening, every household would tune in and watch the wrestling 🤼♂️.
And the a-team & airwolf
Sunday mornings after coming home from skipping mass
Afternoon.
Giant Haystacks and Mike Morris have long passed away .RIP🙏🙏🙏
Superstitious graffiti totally unnecessary here 😑
I wish back when the 80's of wrestling was huge that we could watch 5 to 7 days a week
it was fake
@@rickhardman7376 Fake ? Thanks for telling us we would never of gussed that 😏
@@stevenwade7466 What's the point if it's fake?
Giant Haystacks was in a Paul McCartney movie " Give My Regards To BroadStreet".
Yup rem it 1984
I wished that cheeky rude presenter interviewed Mike Tyson. .....Tyson would put him in his place!
Just like the Canadian interviewer who brought up his rape conviction.
Martin (Giant Hatstacks) was a lovely man off stage.
He was not the deadly serious man you see on this video, once he got to know you.
Yes rest in peace giant haystacks ad bigdady 2 I saw him in Shrewsbury Shropshire gave me a hug nice man out of ring
I was gutted when they stopped it on TV, loved watching it with my Grandad as a kid in the 80's. No good reason at all for it at all 😕
I agree. It was popular and entertaining.
@DMo86 I can’t believe that they got rid of a real sport and replaced it with football, what on earth is happening to this world 🤔
A proper folk hero from my childhood. Sorely missed.
Truly a gentle giant RIP
What a lovely man.
And Getting paid to lie to children for a living 🤡
Spent many Saturday afternoon cheering big daddy giant haystacks on as a 8 year old in 1978 much more entertaining than todays rubbish. Rip and of coarse mick mcmanus.
Amazing find!!! What a great bloke. I was is biggest fan, well, his biggest Jewish fan :)
I was no. 2😁
Real name Martin Ruane
Rest in Peace
giant haystacks proper legend
Lovely man loved watching jim❤
I will never forget him threatening to punch me when I went to watch a local show in 95. I was an 11 year old kid at the time and it’s probably the mist scared I’d ever felt. RIP Giant Haystacks.
Why would he do that to a 11 year old ... he was a gent
@@rickhardman7376 it was part of his shtick no doubt.
@@rickhardman7376 It was his character in the ring, his persona. He was supposed to be the baddy.
My father met Haystacks in a pub here in Ireland. ( apparently he was really born in Kiltimagh in Co Mayo) He was a true beast of a wrestler and I hate how disrespectful the presenters are🙄
@dog Johnson I don't think so
@matskigudjohnson Well he'd have gotten better respect on an Irish show
Giant Haystacks was born as Martin Austin Ruane in Camberwell, London on 10th of October 1946, his father was born in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo.
"She called help I think"what a legend of a man 🤣😂
He was a great guy and always had time for the kids at the events
A REAL PROFFESSIONAL, R I P BIG MAN.🙏🙏🙏🙏
Superstitious graffiti totally unnecessary here
@@matimus100 go and find your lost brain cell, IDIOT.
Proper Idol !,love the guy ,rip
Strange homosexual comment
No,I just loved the wrestling as a kid,Thanks for making me laugh,Keyboard warrior 😂
Great quality
They call him sir constantly cause they know one wrong word and he gonna kick ass
Exactly that! He could switch anytime! 😂
I loved haystacks ..davy boy smith marc rocco british wrestler said the decline in the uk wrestleing came because.the uk promoters.spent there profits. on fancy. holidays big fancy cars put nothing back into the business.the americans put lots back in.and have the huge sport they have today. rocco fit finlay dynamite kidd.davy boy smith..those guys went to America as we declined . the Jackie pallo v mick MacManus contest lasted 25 minutes big daddy and haystacks 5 minutes. r.i.p haystacks
A really nice guy and a gentleman RIP Giant🐒🐻🤗👍
Haystacks is right, British wrestling is the best and still is today IMO. Even if you just watch WWE the NXT UK brand more often then not has the best matches.
It was shame ITV discontinued wrestling from it's coverage it really was an institution. Grannies and wrestling that was huge thing back in the day as well, my Nan really got into every match cheering on the likes of Big Daddy.
These interviewers are so bloody awkward and annoying, Haystacks is clearly very uncomfortable here.
he did not have to do it thats the price of fame
@@leeturbo2008 Yeah I get that and I know weighing 700lbs isn't healthy but they invited the guy to appear on the show, at least show him a little respect.
@@rivertwygzbed543 agree i find it abit unconfirtble with it too.how he is interviewing him
Seen here wrestling with his regular partner Drew McDonald RIP, and it will be the 6th anniversary of his death this week. I interviewed Drew twice and he had intended to write his memoirs which included the story about them both sitting outside a venue and two little old ladies shyly approaching them and asking for their autograph. Luke and Drew duly obliged but when the ladies thanked them and walked away, they came back, ripped up the autograph and said, “you’re not Chas and Dave”. Really wish Drew had lived long enough to write his autobiography, I miss him very much. RIP Highlander from Hell
Never met drew but hear so many good things about him from my friend ricky Knight. Must of been such a nice guy.
@@71canaries He was indeed Hayden, and such a character - always spoke his mind. But he was so passionate about the squared circle, had wrestled all over the world and was talent scout for WWE of course. I didn’t know how he was ever going to retire, he loved it so much. But in the end he got stomach cancer - as did Pat Roach and Haystacks. Wonder if it’s the blows to the stomach they received were to blame.
what a beautiful intelligent man he was
you know ur big when u can make pat roach look small !!!
What does the future hold for anybody 🤔 great quote RIP Martin Austin Ruane AKK Giant Haystacks
I was born too late to get into that era of wrestling but I've heard from family members how popular it was back then. I did get to witness Haystacks short run in WCW but that obviously .
The wrestling I grew up on was very different from the old British style of pro wrestling but when you strip everything down to the basics it's pretty much the same. Somebody the fans hate fighting against somebody the fans love. Pro wrestling when done well is as close to modern day theatre as it gets but with the sports aspect included. I miss the days when wrestling was genuinely captivating and unmissable
Me too. I saw him as Loch Ness in WCW. I remember how huge he was in the ring. Apparently, he became ill and it cut his time in WCW short.
@@musicuniverse1356 Yeah, sadly he had cancer so never got a proper chance at fulfilling his potential in the USA.
I grew up hearing older family members talk about Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy but at the time when I saw Loch Ness I never knew he was Giant Haystacks. I found out soon after as I got a little older.
I wish I was around when British wrestling was popular because it sounds like everybody watched it and really got involved but I have to confess that when I was a teenager during the attitude era watching WWF every day I remember watching some old footage of world of sport and being pretty disappointed/underwhelmed 😅
That is understandable though considering that I was used to seeing guys thrown off of cells and split wide open with sledgehammers and now I'm watching two obese men giving each other armbars and chops for twenty minutes 😅
Fortunately I went on to appreciate British wrestling and eventually understood why it became popular and why it is beloved to this very day.
What a beast of a man. Used to piss myself watching big daddy bounce of him
It was sad when wrestling disappeared from the TV.
it was fake
@@rick182z Do you not think people actually realise that? Dumbass. What if I told you your favourite tv drama or film is fake?
@@rick182z idiot
R. I. P
I believe Giant Haystacks was the Queens favourite wrestler.
Gentle giant.
Irish blood born in London
what a great man
I loved British wrestling and always watched World of Sport on a saturday. Giant haystacks and Big Daddy were the focal point.
He truly was a gentle giant out of the ring he's taken on many other giants in his career against The Giant,André The Giant,Kamala, One Man Gang, and Big Cat Ernie Ladd and he was so respected the interviewer called him "Sir" on more than one occasion truly a legend of the business ✌🏾🤘🏾👍🏾🇬🇧
I didn’t know he’d faced One Man Gang and Kamala- wonder if there’s footage?
He's taken out nobody. Every match is scripted. It's not a sport it's an act, just for entertainment, totally scripted and choreographed.
@@PreservationEnthusiast okay you're point you dumbfuk
@@PreservationEnthusiast Oh, amazing you are.
@@riboid Yes I'm amazing. Are you amazing?!
Ahh, lovely wee Lorraine. 😃
When Mike "Z-grade interviewer" Morris said he was trying to make him angry, i'm sure Ruane was thinking "you've been succeeding from the moment i sat here"
Gentle giant
I think you have to remember back then people thought wrestling was real the wrestlers lived their character at all times
Thought he did really well not to hand out a couple of slaps. Was almost like a ritual to watch the Wrestling followed by World of Sport as a kid.
Lorraine looks bloody lovely.
The male presenter is so impertinent , i'm amazed how Haystacks kept his composure !