Giant Haystacks briefly lived next door to me in Wigan in the late 1980's. He spent a lot of time in his garden and was often seen measuring the ground with a tape measure. I once popped my head over the fence to say hello and he asked me if I was a fan of the music of Donna Summer. As it happened I was and we spent several evenings listening to Donna Summer records over a cup of bovril. Once he put some shelves up for me while I did the washing-up.
That's a marvelous story did you guys get instruments during your Donna Summer sessions LOL sounds like you guys had a little bit of a love story going on the way you tell the story I am just joking around with you so please don't take it personal God bless
@@sammydabull4001 Well Haystacks was very musical. In 1983 he had performed a country tune called 'Baby I need you' that was released and distributed by Pinnicle Records, you can probably find it on UA-cam, it's very good. Haystacks did have a ukulele that Paul McCartney had given him when he appeared in the 1984 drama 'Give my regards to Broad Street' which starred the former Beatle, and although his fingers were far to big to play it normally, he did manage to get a fairly pleasant melody out of it by using a kefetle as a makeshift bow. Unfortunately as I only have one arm I was unable to accompany him but I can sing a fairly precise C sharp so I would join in whenever the note came up and hum the rest of the time.
@@adrianh332 We touched on the subject a few times. Haystacks told me that he was trying to communicate with a species of mole people that he believed lived deep underground. Several times he told me of his ultimate dream to buy an old coal mine so that he could begin a proper search for them. I later became convinced he was on to something after a spooky encounter late one night in Rainford.
I always cheered for haystacks remember as a kid I watched him at Southport and everyone was booing him but after he elbow dropped his opponent I cheered and give him the thumbs up..he saw it and nodded at me awesome guy legend 🙌
@UA-camINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE I religiously watched world of sport from the mid seventies till it finished in 1988. I agree I was never a fan of daddy...but loved Rollerball rococo..he was my favourite and also dynamite kid he was another favourite. fit finlay, marty Jones and Jim breaks they were great and had immense talent back then. How they could manipulate the audience into a frenzy was genius.
Me too, with my gran to be precise. We spent more time watching her than the telly to be fair. It was amazing how wound up she got by it all! The telly is totally crap now by comparison.
Mr haystacks would have done him in about 90 seconds normally, but good to see him loose. I understand he was a very kind man in real life. He was only 50 or so when he left here.
@@anythingoldmechanical There's a few guys like that, noteably the Undertaker, for the last 30 odd years he's had a scary gimmick, but they say he's actually a nice guy in real life. Also, William Regal, who's now a Manager in AEW, I used to enjoy NXT when he was the GM, he comes across as a nice bloke.
Yes, he was a nice guy. I worked at a sports centre in the early eighties when they put on a show, and I will always have the image in my mind of this hulking great figure dwarfing a tiny little girl as he signed her programme. Golden days...
Always looked forward to Saturday afternoons Giant Hastacks Kendo Nagaski Big Daddy kingKong kirk Dave Fitfinnley God bless them all for their great entertainment during my childhood my Grandparents and Parents were also blg fans
Thanks for uploading this - I’ve never seen it before. It’s incredible to think that this was FORTY THREE years ago! 😳 12:20 Haystacks appears to “blade”. 12:30 Haystacks appears to throw away whatever he used to “blade”.
I remember watching this. Nagasaki had beaten Big Daddy too. To a young me, he seemed unbeatable. But I know the art of wrestling now: a work. The promoters made him brutal and unbeatable. Great stuff.
Me and my grandad were just discussing the age of Taker and that retirement might be a good idea & I sent him some wrestelers who were older in their final match & he said Kendo Nagasaki was his favorite.
No this was very early in his TV appearances in the early 70's and he wasn't as big as he became in later years. He was also a lot more mobile back in these days. Looking back now from how most people recall him he does look almost anorexic in these early shows.
@@psxgunman He was 31 stone in this one. I remember him at 46 stone in the early 80's. He always "lost" to Big Daddy. If he wanted to, Haystacks could have beaten him. Big Daddy was just a showman.
My Dad used to take me to see the Wrestling back then,before the "Daddy era" killed it. Great days in such exotic places as Croyden, Catford, Dartford etc where there was probably more actual violence in the streets outside. As well as the "gimmick" fighters there were some very skilled wrestlers around.
@Aero01 In the book "The Wrestling" by Simon Garfield a lot of the wrestlers at the time criticised Big Daddy Whilst they were happy to say that he made the sport, and by extension, themselves, household words, there was a price to pay And that price was that wrestlers who'd built up YEARS of good will, and reputations as genuine tough guys, were expected to roll over & let Daddy win, as he was the children's favourite Sadly, Daddy, who'd been a decent wrestler in his youth, was getting up there in years and his mobility and skills had diminished. Most of the matches were "squash" matches It also wasn't helped that the bookers, like All Star, were pushing their friends, who by then were not young men Jackie Pallo himself said that it was a mistake not pushing the younger talent, saying that today's audiences wanted "dolly fellas"...goodlooking guys who looked like superheroes or pop stars, not "fat old men in nappies" Hate to say it, but he was right!
Remember many years after its World of Sport heyday we where at the Stonleigh showground for our tug of war championship and there was some wrestling on and haystacks was one of them I think there where about 8 spectators and it seemed sad when you think of how popular it was for many years .
@@theradgegadgie6352 Stax actually hated having to work with Kendo because he didn't like having to be the goodie for a night, so says Kendo in his autobiography
@@theradgegadgie6352 "Kendo Nagasaki And The Man Behind The Mask" by Peter Thornley. books.google.co.uk/books?id=BF6QvgEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions It's also got material in it from George Gillette's unpublished autobiog that he wrote in the 1980s, as well as a couple of chapters by Roz McDonald aka Atlantis Chronotis Goth, Kendo's manager in LDN circa 2007.
I nearly met Paul McCartney once and if he hadn't been on his farm, in East Sussex and I hadn't been in London then I would have. It's just Fate, sometimes..
Max Crabtree (the ref here) was the man who killed British wrestling. He was the main promoter and if the wrestlers didn't toe his line they didn't get work. The "Big Daddy era" as mentioned by dave8204. Max was Shirley's brother. Between them they killed it. Wrestling ended up as a closed shop.
I'm old enough to remember Big Daddy, he was basically our answer to WWF/E's Hulk Hogan, except he was fat, did 2 moves and couldn't talk for toffee, he'd do well in current WWE, except somebody like Roman Reigns would literally kill him probably.
@UA-camINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE It was blade to the forehead just a nick produced loads of blood, adrenaline pumps I’ve referred matches and seen it first hand
I was looking out for football scores to come up at the bottom of the screen. (For those who remember that ) Not to mention the ladies top in the front row. 👀.
There's a video on UA-cam of their other fight where Haystacks bleeds in the same place,that happened outside the ring and a commenter reckoned he could see him cutting himself. It does seem odd here that he makes a great effort to keep his head covered with his hair then Kendo pulls his hair back to reveal it. My Dad used to work with John Yearsley who was a known "bleeder" (only in the physical way,a really nice bloke apparently) who would apparently take a severe beating in the ring and be back at work on the building sites the next morning none the worse for wear.
Martin Ruane v Peter Thornley. Haystacks in his 'less bulky' days. Brian Crabtree refereeing here. R.I.P. brother Max Crabtree. Note that this is not a Dale Martin presentation - when they took over things took a turn or two for the worse. Gillette was one of the biggest *ankers around at the time!
I love it how the ref has sewn two old shirts together. Radical. 😂 Apparently, he has another exactly the same... I also didn't realise that Aerosmith's Steve Tyler was the manager of Kendo Nagasaki...
Kendo Nagasaki is 6' 2" tall. Giant Haystacks was billed as 6' 11" tall. Big Daddy was billed as 6' 6" tall. In a match between Kendo Nagasaki and Big Daddy, you clearly see multiple times in the video that Kendo Nagasaki is actually taller than Big Daddy. When Big Daddy is wrestling Giant Haystacks who is billed as standing 6' 11" tall, it is believable that Big Daddy might by 6' 6" tall. But, after watching the video between Kendo Nagasaki and Big Daddy, it was obvious Big Daddy was no more than 6' 1" or 6' 2" tall and Giant Haystacks was probably about 6' 7" tall. I then found this video between Kendo Nagasaki and Giant Haystacks. It is very obvious Giant Haystacks is NOT 9" taller than the 6' 2" Kendo Nagasaki. Giant Haystacks is no more than four or five inches taller than Kendo Nagasaki - which confirms Giant Haystacks is actually about 6' 6" or 6' 7" tall.
If Haystacks was only 6'7", then so was Andre. There's a picture of them in the ring together from 1980, and they're pretty much the same height. And it's well known that Andre was really about 6'11" and not 7'4".
@@winston846 You are correct about the height of Andre. I read the actual height of Andrew the Giant was 6' 10" tall. Vince was always changing the heights of wrestlers. Andre was 7' 4" tall, but was actually billed at 7' 5" tall before he passed away. I have not seen the picture you speak of with Haystacks and Andre standing together. if they are together and the same distance from the camera, it would mean they both are about 6' 10" or 6' 11" as you say. If one of them is closer to the camera or if one of them is on a different angle, it can make one look taller.
Yes you had Shirley in the ring, Brian on the MCing and Max the other brother on the outside looking after the promoting and match making. In later years Max's son donned the tights as Greg Valentine (not the Hammer one !)
Are you for real? These wrestling matches were all staged. A fake blood capsule would have been used here. You can clearly see when they are supposedly hitting each other that no real force is used when the punch lands. Although in the 70s it used to be good viewing at 4pm on ITV these days they are laughable to watch
@@digeme69 Laughable? How very dare you, these are professional athletes at the top of their game. Like Jocky Wilson on the oche, as Sid Waddell said, What an athlete.
Brian Crabtree brother of Promoter: Max and Brother of "Big Daddy" aka Shirley Crabtree who, before, the farcical years was European Heavyweight Champion under his own name around 1962..
Wonderfull innocent stuff.. when it was the good old days.. Love it!!! They were all pals after.. down the pub for a few.. probably laughing thier Bo…ks. Off 😂😂😂
These is a total lie that's not kendo Nagasaki I grew up watching wrestling in the 1980s that's some other masked guy wrestling against haystack Calhoun kendo Nagasaki will paint on his face, not a mask and he had a green Miss. He spit out his mouth into your eyes
It's wrestling. It's supposed to be fun, like a movie, or pantomime. There's lots of deception going on right now (cough) but it's nothing to do with wrestling.
@@Rorshach1004 Clearly choreographed this is the reason the BBC didn't have it on Grandstand. However it was entertaining, sometimes they really did get hurt when performing those stunts. Get your timing wrong and you end up badly injured. Malcolm (King Kong ) Kirk died in the ring see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Kirk#Death
My grandad done bodyguard work back in the day an was asked to be Haystacks corner man at the Motherwell, Civic centre. When they got ringside Haystacks spat water in my grandpa's face out the bucket an my grandpa knocked him clean out. Nobody told him that was part of the script. Got arrested for it too.
Why do you keep posting like you are informing us of something we don't know everyone on planet earth knows its not real and only for entertainment value
@@CuteCatNorman nah he just blade himself with small razor .which is common tecnicue to get real juice . look at ric flair or abdulah the butcher forehead . so much scars from blading
So much was made about KN pomp and pagentry unmasking series in 78/79...but who would have expected Haystacks to shed blood ..to s far lighter man....like this instance......blood and thunder..could have been used in future poster advertising to promote KN and,/or Haystacks ?????
Giant Haystacks briefly lived next door to me in Wigan in the late 1980's. He spent a lot of time in his garden and was often seen measuring the ground with a tape measure. I once popped my head over the fence to say hello and he asked me if I was a fan of the music of Donna Summer. As it happened I was and we spent several evenings listening to Donna Summer records over a cup of bovril. Once he put some shelves up for me while I did the washing-up.
Nice story
That's a marvelous story did you guys get instruments during your Donna Summer sessions LOL sounds like you guys had a little bit of a love story going on the way you tell the story I am just joking around with you so please don't take it personal God bless
@@sammydabull4001 Well Haystacks was very musical. In 1983 he had performed a country tune called 'Baby I need you' that was released and distributed by Pinnicle Records, you can probably find it on UA-cam, it's very good. Haystacks did have a ukulele that Paul McCartney had given him when he appeared in the 1984 drama 'Give my regards to Broad Street' which starred the former Beatle, and although his fingers were far to big to play it normally, he did manage to get a fairly pleasant melody out of it by using a kefetle as a makeshift bow. Unfortunately as I only have one arm I was unable to accompany him but I can sing a fairly precise C sharp so I would join in whenever the note came up and hum the rest of the time.
@@colmhauser9532 Did you ever find out why he kept measuring the ground in his garden? That's intriguing behaviour unless you're building something.
@@adrianh332 We touched on the subject a few times. Haystacks told me that he was trying to communicate with a species of mole people that he believed lived deep underground. Several times he told me of his ultimate dream to buy an old coal mine so that he could begin a proper search for them. I later became convinced he was on to something after a spooky encounter late one night in Rainford.
I always cheered for haystacks remember as a kid I watched him at Southport and everyone was booing him but after he elbow dropped his opponent I cheered and give him the thumbs up..he saw it and nodded at me awesome guy legend 🙌
@UA-camINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE I religiously watched world of sport from the mid seventies till it finished in 1988. I agree I was never a fan of daddy...but loved Rollerball rococo..he was my favourite and also dynamite kid he was another favourite. fit finlay, marty Jones and Jim breaks they were great and had immense talent back then. How they could manipulate the audience into a frenzy was genius.
I remember seeing him in Cornwall, he was by far the most sociable wrestler on the card that night, a lovely guy.
Excellent, I used to watch this with my Grand parents. 👍🏼
Me too, with my gran to be precise. We spent more time watching her than the telly to be fair. It was amazing how wound up she got by it all! The telly is totally crap now by comparison.
Martin Austin Ruane was a gentle giant and a gentleman. Fantastic wrestler too. RIP Martin and thanks for the entertainment.
It was entertaining in a way, to see how they got away with showing this fakery on TV.
I just found this wonderful entertainment from across the pond. The old stuff is still the best.
Mr haystacks would have done him in about 90 seconds normally, but good to see him loose. I understand he was a very kind man in real life. He was only 50 or so when he left here.
Nagasaki never jobbed I thought?
Haystacks was a nice bloke nothing like he was in the ring he was taken too early rip big man
He was a very nice bloke.
The mean serious image, was all part of his showmanship.
I've heard so much about what a nice person Martin was. An accomplished pianist too.
Finest hour was the KP Skips advert though. "I enjoy a bit of sophistication.."
@@anythingoldmechanical There's a few guys like that, noteably the Undertaker, for the last 30 odd years he's had a scary gimmick, but they say he's actually a nice guy in real life.
Also, William Regal, who's now a Manager in AEW, I used to enjoy NXT when he was the GM, he comes across as a nice bloke.
Yes, he was a nice guy. I worked at a sports centre in the early eighties when they put on a show, and I will always have the image in my mind of this hulking great figure dwarfing a tiny little girl as he signed her programme. Golden days...
This is a real classic from the golden age of TV wrestling. The two heels give us a battle royal. Nothing on TV now compares to this drama.
Always looked forward to Saturday afternoons Giant Hastacks Kendo Nagaski Big Daddy kingKong kirk Dave Fitfinnley God bless them all for their great entertainment during my childhood my Grandparents and Parents were also blg fans
Thanks for uploading this - I’ve never seen it before.
It’s incredible to think that this was FORTY THREE years ago! 😳
12:20 Haystacks appears to “blade”.
12:30 Haystacks appears to throw away whatever he used to “blade”.
trav and corey
Two great legends of the sport
Sport?
@@glenbaker8412 An excellent show of rule breaking! Loved it.
It's not a sport. The winner of every bout is scripted and decided in advance.
Kendo gave haystacks a right beating. Loved the wrestling.
Great match up here. Kendo is beyond eccentric!
I remember watching this. Nagasaki had beaten Big Daddy too. To a young me, he seemed unbeatable. But I know the art of wrestling now: a work. The promoters made him brutal and unbeatable. Great stuff.
I remember this on telly in 1977, one of the few times anyone wanted Nagasaki to win! Haystacks looking quite svelte (for him)
Still only 30 years old. Kendo was 35.
Wow Giant haystack was really good at selling the move I though he was bad at doing that in reality he was much more better than big daddy
Thank you, psxgunman for liking my comment!
Me and my grandad were just discussing the age of Taker and that retirement might be a good idea & I sent him some wrestelers who were older in their final match & he said Kendo Nagasaki was his favorite.
I've never seen Haystacks take such a beating and I've never seen a British ref let so much go it was like the "dreaded" American style
And you didnt see a wrestling move either
@UA-camINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE The man who killed British wrestling.
It's all a work.
私は日本人ですがケンドーナガサキ彼の大ファンです。彼の武士道精神は大変素晴らしいです。
最高のプロレスラーです。
kendo nagasaik always win wrestling match
A lighter Haystacks here but at even at his biggest, he was pretty quick for a big guy ..
I don't think I ever saw Haystacks spend so much time on the floor.
Very cleverly choreographed rough acting.
I was once a ring builder when these guys were at the top of their careers.
Has Giant Haystacks lost a few pounds?
@@70AD-user45 Haystacks died in the early 90's with Stomach Cancer
No this was very early in his TV appearances in the early 70's and he wasn't as big as he became in later years. He was also a lot more mobile back in these days. Looking back now from how most people recall him he does look almost anorexic in these early shows.
@@psxgunman
He was 31 stone in this one. I remember him at 46 stone in the early 80's.
He always "lost" to Big Daddy. If he wanted to, Haystacks could have beaten him. Big Daddy was just a showman.
@@70AD-user45 Always lost to Big Daddy as it was scripted that way!
Both gone and lamented RIP
My Dad used to take me to see the Wrestling back then,before the "Daddy era" killed it. Great days in such exotic places as Croyden, Catford, Dartford etc where there was probably more actual violence in the streets outside. As well as the "gimmick" fighters there were some very skilled wrestlers around.
@Aero01 In the book "The Wrestling" by Simon Garfield a lot of the wrestlers at the time criticised Big Daddy
Whilst they were happy to say that he made the sport, and by extension, themselves, household words, there was a price to pay
And that price was that wrestlers who'd built up YEARS of good will, and reputations as genuine tough guys, were expected to roll over & let Daddy win, as he was the children's favourite
Sadly, Daddy, who'd been a decent wrestler in his youth, was getting up there in years and his mobility and skills had diminished. Most of the matches were "squash" matches
It also wasn't helped that the bookers, like All Star, were pushing their friends, who by then were not young men
Jackie Pallo himself said that it was a mistake not pushing the younger talent, saying that today's audiences wanted "dolly fellas"...goodlooking guys who looked like superheroes or pop stars, not "fat old men in nappies"
Hate to say it, but he was right!
That was an interesting read when I had a copy..Wish I had held onto it now @@tombstoneharrystudios584
Remember many years after its World of Sport heyday we where at the Stonleigh showground for our tug of war championship and there was some wrestling on and haystacks was one of them I think there where about 8 spectators and it seemed sad when you think of how popular it was for many years .
Shame. I used to live for the Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks bouts.
Miss those Saturday afternoons...!!!
We all do such a shame at the time we never all realised how good we had it.
Yes..!!..It's the old story...you don't know what you've got.....till it's gone...sadly...!!!!
I wished I'd been around for it I was born 78 so only caught the dying days. The atmosphere in these venues sounds buzzing
Haystacks looking practically anorexic in this bout! Also, quite obviously the most popular villain in British Wrestling. Crowd went for him big time.
Villain vs villain bout - crowd would usually pick a favourite. Usually Kendo would stay the villain (except for his hardcore fan club)
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 I like to think a lot of fans genuinely knew Haystacks was a lovely bloke.
@@theradgegadgie6352 Stax actually hated having to work with Kendo because he didn't like having to be the goodie for a night, so says Kendo in his autobiography
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 What's his autobiography called?
@@theradgegadgie6352 "Kendo Nagasaki And The Man Behind The Mask" by Peter Thornley.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=BF6QvgEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions
It's also got material in it from George Gillette's unpublished autobiog that he wrote in the 1980s, as well as a couple of chapters by Roz McDonald aka Atlantis Chronotis Goth, Kendo's manager in LDN circa 2007.
Eleven (11) different types of eyeshadow, has Gorgeous George.
I very nearly met kendo Nagasaki in Manchester but had to get a coach to arena but a lady in WHSmith in Manchester got me his autograph
I nearly met Paul McCartney once and if he hadn't been on his farm, in East Sussex and I hadn't been in London then I would have. It's just Fate, sometimes..
Max Crabtree (the ref here) was the man who killed British wrestling. He was the main promoter and if the wrestlers didn't toe his line they didn't get work. The "Big Daddy era" as mentioned by dave8204.
Max was Shirley's brother. Between them they killed it. Wrestling ended up as a closed shop.
Shows you havnt got a clue what u on about the referee was Brian crabtree
That's Brian Crabtree.
I'm old enough to remember Big Daddy, he was basically our answer to WWF/E's Hulk Hogan, except he was fat, did 2 moves and couldn't talk for toffee, he'd do well in current WWE, except somebody like Roman Reigns would literally kill him probably.
@@richallenxbox1976 I am old enough to remember Shirley Crabtree on the front of Wrestling World as European Champion circa 1962/63.
Oh yes the good old blade trick, used by many over the years
Yes indeed.
Look again
@UA-camINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE
It was blade to the forehead just a nick produced loads of blood, adrenaline pumps
I’ve referred matches and seen it first hand
I was looking out for football scores to come up at the bottom of the screen. (For those who remember that ) Not to mention the ladies top in the front row. 👀.
Congratulations To Giant Haystacks 😊
Saw this age 10 ish, twas unbelievable at the time.
I always loved watching a massive guy beat up a skinny kid. Ahh the 70s and 80s were really special.
Worth looking for on UA-cam kendo on Danny baker show playing drums. Strange bit of tv
giant haystacks worked with my wifes dad. said when he got in car it would lean to side all time 😂😂
Another match i remember watching so long ago
Wow ! Haystacks is so skinny ! And a blue eye too !
Wow! A blade job on World of Sport....looks like ‘stacks did it when he was flat on the canvas
There's a video on UA-cam of their other fight where Haystacks bleeds in the same place,that happened outside the ring and a commenter reckoned he could see him cutting himself. It does seem odd here that he makes a great effort to keep his head covered with his hair then Kendo pulls his hair back to reveal it. My Dad used to work with John Yearsley who was a known "bleeder" (only in the physical way,a really nice bloke apparently) who would apparently take a severe beating in the ring and be back at work on the building sites the next morning none the worse for wear.
Not a blade, blood capsules.
It was blade phillip
I'd rather watch this now than the modern wwe
Least we know who is bad and good guy here
Haystacks should of went to the Usa a lot sooner. Yanks love Big Men.
Haystacks reminds me of our One Man Gang from the United States.
Indeed, he'd have got pushed to the Moon in Vince McMahon's WWE, either that or used to squash no name jobbers on Superstars.
Theres a picture of Haystacks in the ring with Andre The Giant at a match in Sidney early 80s i think. If only there was footage.
Didn’t realize Eddie Izzard had a career before standup
I wondered what that comment was about then i saw. Funny as fuck
These Great Men were 2 of The Finest UK 🇬🇧 WRESTLERS EVER.
Oh how I’d love to see the WWE use public warnings 😆
Haha, yeah. To be honest, I don't even understand what the rules are in the WWE at all. It just looks like anything goes to me 😂
Stampede Wrestling where Bret and Owen Hart got their start had public warnings - yellow and red cards like in Germany.
Martin Ruane v Peter Thornley.
Haystacks in his 'less bulky' days. Brian Crabtree refereeing here. R.I.P. brother Max Crabtree.
Note that this is not a Dale Martin presentation - when they took over things took a turn or two for the worse.
Gillette was one of the biggest *ankers around at the time!
I love it how the ref has sewn two old shirts together. Radical. 😂 Apparently, he has another exactly the same... I also didn't realise that Aerosmith's Steve Tyler was the manager of Kendo Nagasaki...
Haystacks looks in goodish shape here......
Kendo Nagasaki is 6' 2" tall. Giant Haystacks was billed as 6' 11" tall. Big Daddy was billed as 6' 6" tall. In a match between Kendo Nagasaki and Big Daddy, you clearly see multiple times in the video that Kendo Nagasaki is actually taller than Big Daddy. When Big Daddy is wrestling Giant Haystacks who is billed as standing 6' 11" tall, it is believable that Big Daddy might by 6' 6" tall. But, after watching the video between Kendo Nagasaki and Big Daddy, it was obvious Big Daddy was no more than 6' 1" or 6' 2" tall and Giant Haystacks was probably about 6' 7" tall. I then found this video between Kendo Nagasaki and Giant Haystacks. It is very obvious Giant Haystacks is NOT 9" taller than the 6' 2" Kendo Nagasaki. Giant Haystacks is no more than four or five inches taller than Kendo Nagasaki - which confirms Giant Haystacks is actually about 6' 6" or 6' 7" tall.
If Haystacks was only 6'7", then so was Andre. There's a picture of them in the ring together from 1980, and they're pretty much the same height. And it's well known that Andre was really about 6'11" and not 7'4".
@@winston846 You are correct about the height of Andre. I read the actual height of Andrew the Giant was 6' 10" tall. Vince was always changing the heights of wrestlers. Andre was 7' 4" tall, but was actually billed at 7' 5" tall before he passed away. I have not seen the picture you speak of with Haystacks and Andre standing together. if they are together and the same distance from the camera, it would mean they both are about 6' 10" or 6' 11" as you say. If one of them is closer to the camera or if one of them is on a different angle, it can make one look taller.
He was taller than 6,6, because
Mighty John Quinn was 6,4.5,, and only came up to Haystack s eyes, can't be any less than 6,8_6'9
Fuck me. All these statistics; Ive got a headache now. Did you know Virgil Tracy was 2ft 3"? And Joe 90 was 9ft 2". Discuss
Wasn't Brian Crabtree Big Daddy's brother or something?
Yes you had Shirley in the ring, Brian on the MCing and Max the other brother on the outside looking after the promoting and match making. In later years Max's son donned the tights as Greg Valentine (not the Hammer one !)
I reckon Haystacks bladed at around 12.25, when he was face down on the canvas.
Are you for real? These wrestling matches were all staged. A fake blood capsule would have been used here. You can clearly see when they are supposedly hitting each other that no real force is used when the punch lands. Although in the 70s it used to be good viewing at 4pm on ITV these days they are laughable to watch
@@digeme69 Laughable? How very dare you, these are professional athletes at the top of their game. Like Jocky Wilson on the oche, as Sid Waddell said, What an athlete.
@@digeme69 no fake blood capsule sued my friend
Heel vs Heel. Unusual for WoS, except Pallo vs McManus.
was this on world of sport with dickie davies or grandstand i was 7 watching this now 53
what about the 2 blokes who decided to get in the ring, wonder what that was about?
Worse ref in history!😮
Brian Crabtree brother of Promoter: Max and Brother of "Big Daddy" aka Shirley Crabtree who, before, the farcical years was European Heavyweight Champion under his own name around 1962..
Big Daddies brother is the ref. No bias at all
His other Brother:Max is The Promotwr....
Wake up I was 8 maybe 9 biggest load of bollocks ever.... but I still loved it...
The referee shirt is fancy! The 70’s 🤷🏼♂️
He was a shit house was wee Brian
Good match, impressive mobility and work from Haystacks. He actually was a lot better than Big Daddy, i always thought they were on the same level.
Wonderfull innocent stuff.. when it was the good old days.. Love it!!! They were all pals after.. down the pub for a few.. probably laughing thier Bo…ks. Off 😂😂😂
Haystacks was positively svelte back in the 70s
Trying to figure out where the blood came from.
I watch American wrestling now and there are no round breaks and if you're weaing the crimson mask they carry on regardless. It's mental.
That was not wrestling it was a street fight. But still entertaining
WHO'S THE WEIRDO WITH THE RED SUIT
Yes his manager ..Nagasaki had a few acoytytes...that presented themselves at nagasakis TV ceremonial unmasking ..
These is a total lie that's not kendo Nagasaki I grew up watching wrestling in the 1980s that's some other masked guy wrestling against haystack Calhoun kendo Nagasaki will paint on his face, not a mask and he had a green Miss. He spit out his mouth into your eyes
Lol the ref looks like he was some guy passing on the street and they gave him the gig on the day
The ref, is Brian Crabtree, brother of Big Daddy.
Of course Brian Crabtree was the brother of Shirley Crabtree aka Big Daddy
How fooled we were and still are being, its unreal the amount of deception that is going on.
It's wrestling. It's supposed to be fun, like a movie, or pantomime. There's lots of deception going on right now (cough) but it's nothing to do with wrestling.
@@Rorshach1004 Clearly choreographed this is the reason the BBC didn't have it on Grandstand. However it was entertaining, sometimes they really did get hurt when performing those stunts. Get your timing wrong and you end up badly injured. Malcolm (King Kong ) Kirk died in the ring see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Kirk#Death
wrestling fans knew this even back in day . they watch it for entertaiment purpose . its circus show
Kendo Nagasaki presented by his manager and boyfriend Gorgeous George
George died of Aids.
@@johnfellows2867 Thank you for telling me, I,m very sorry
George and Kendo were never an item. If you read Kendo' autobiography he explains George and his relationship
Doesnt kendo own a very notorious gay hotel in blackpool ?
George gay? Who'd have thought it? Although when you watch this the signs are there
Can't remember 'Gorgeous George'. What a strange character!
When giant haystacks rammed you in the corner game over😀👍😇
Rare to see Haystacks as a face!
When this was shown the streets of the UK were empty at 4pm !
Seems like a nice boy
back in the days...you would not have noticed giant haystacks lying in the ring cutting himself..but who cares..still great to watch
Who is the man in the Max Wall trousers?
Would loved to have seen the Giant wearing a mask, and Kendo taking it off.
When they get in the changing room kendo will say sorry
haystacks doesnt look as big here
Nice win for Peter Thornley there.😁
Was this the original Kendo Nagasaki??
I always wanted the baddies to win....Adrian Street, Bad Bobby Barns, Mark Rocco and Cry Baby Breaks etc.!
Who dressed the ref?
My grandad done bodyguard work back in the day an was asked to be Haystacks corner man at the Motherwell, Civic centre. When they got ringside Haystacks spat water in my grandpa's face out the bucket an my grandpa knocked him clean out. Nobody told him that was part of the script. Got arrested for it too.
Comical
Gorgeous George!
Jonny qanggo lived in my road
Haystacks deliberately cut himself with a tiny secluded blade when he was down.
All part of the cleverly choreographed rough play acting.
Why do you keep posting like you are informing us of something we don't know everyone on planet earth knows its not real and only for entertainment value
@@djwilson2189 *I didn't.*
A blood capsule was used at 13.04. It looks like it was hidden in Haystacks' hair and retrieved at 12.58.
@@CuteCatNorman nah he just blade himself with small razor .which is common tecnicue to get real juice . look at ric flair or abdulah the butcher forehead . so much scars from blading
Kendo Nagasaki looks like one of the AEW talents under a mask.. 🤔
That's the Referee that I always remember
He was Big Daddy;s brother if I remember correctly.
Brian Crabtree.
Must have taken courage to sign that contract
What a load of bull. 😮
This guy was a devout Christian
Can't believe they sell Nagasaki masks on ebay.getting one for work
So much was made about KN pomp and pagentry unmasking series in 78/79...but who would have expected Haystacks to shed blood ..to s far lighter man....like this instance......blood and thunder..could have been used in future poster advertising to promote KN and,/or Haystacks ?????
両者とも完全に見世物だな。
Did you notice when you were watching the referee was very annoying with those old British wrestling rules how times have changed.
'I can hold a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki'