Time to share some more wrestling mag scans with you lovely people.
I remember seeing this one in the shops when I was a kid but since my pocket money was nowhere near enough, I just ended up reading it in the shop time and again, until I got chucked out by the pissed-off shopkeeper.
The cover features a pissed off Andre The Giant battling Blackjack Mulligan. Inside we get a report on the Superheavyweight clash which leaves Andre in a bit of a mess.
Hairpulling. Really?
A dejected Andre sits in his dressing room after the match was stopped by the ref.
Remember up to this point, seeing wrestlers covered in blood was a bit of a shock to me.
That just never happened on World of Sport.
In other stories,
More cool beard action from the inside front cover.
Was Hayes in the Freeebirds by this point?
I'm guessing that Ray was a heel.
The legendary Larry Zybyszko-Bruno Sammartino feud spills into the next generation and Larry has words for David Sammartino
This is back before shaving your chest became mandatory.
The well-regarded tag team of Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura splits up.
Jesse with hair but not quite so much muscle.
Fritz Von Erich has his final match.
That's an almost unrecognisable King Kong Bundy gettting a dose of boot.
A shaved head makes all the difference. That, and a few kilos of pie.
The next photo is particularly poignant in view of subsequent events.
Fritz and his sons.
Within a decade or so David, Kerry, Mike and Chris would all be dead.
Poor bastards.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown gets a chance to batter NWA champ Ric Flair
But first, he gets some tunes on.
Can you guess which feature had me so fascinated back in 1983.
Hint; It also featured something else you didn't see on World of Sport.
Lady wrestlers.
Penny Mitchell has Sherri Martel and Fabulous Moolah in trouble.
Of course in a minute it will occur to them to just drop her.
There's a short tribute to the late Peter Maivia
(The Rock's grandfather and I think he's great-uncle or something to Roman Reigns too)
And finally, a name picked for greater things: Salvatore Bellomo
That didn't really work out, did it.
Weirdly enough. about 10 years later he appeared on a card in Stafford, England (my old hometown)
I was broke so, y'know, couldn't go.
I'm still kicking myself about that.
That's all folks.
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