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Kendo Nagasaki

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Kendo Nagasaki

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » February 20th, 2023, 3:12 am

Following the announcement today of the death of TV presenter Dickie Davies, it reminded me of when I was a kid and watching sport on Saturday afternoon TV. My Dad and I used to watch wrestling, just for entertainment, and one character that suddenly came to mind was Kendo Nagasaki, a masked wrestler claimed to be Japanese.
For interest I checked Wikipedia, which led to this:-
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thornley
Even more interesting ( to me at least!) Is if you open the "personal details" tab.there's an unexpected mention of Lee Rugby's mother.

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Re: Kendo Nagasaki

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Postby pje16 » February 20th, 2023, 6:35 am

I remember Kendo Nagasaki back when I was a kid
didn't know he was really Peter or even Brian :o

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Postby bluedonkey » February 20th, 2023, 7:52 am

The artist Peter Blake was slightly obsessed by him and painted him mask on.

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Re: Kendo Nagasaki

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Postby AJC5001 » February 21st, 2023, 2:14 am

I preferred Billy Two Rivers with his wardance and "chop".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Two_Rivers

Apparently he was the father of Wayne Hemingway - who knew?

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