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Ron Moore (Ronto the Bull) and other Wrestlers
replied on: 12/5/2005 11:09:39 PM
Ron Moore was a very popular wrestler in the late 50's and early 60's, in fact he was the main promoter of wrestling at Heanor Town Hall. Most of the bouts featured local lads in disguise, Les(spike) Riley,Herbert(digger Bill) Watson, Oddie the terrible, Fritz Tarlton and of course Ronto himself. The promotion was part of Joint Promotions who competed with Dale Martin Promotions as one of the biggest in the country. Several big names from the wrestling world appeared at Heanor including Big Daddy when he was wresting under his real name of Shirley Crabtree, in fact I think that all of the family came, being Billy Riley (the father) and Max Crabtree, Shirley's much lighter brother, I have a feeling that Max fought Les Riley and Shirly fought Digger Bill. Incidentally as an aside Digger Bill was billed as a gold miner fron Ausralia, six feet four and twenty four stone, in fact he was Herbert Watson, living at that time in Loscoe Grange and working as blacksmith and shaftsman at Ormond Pit, a kinder more gentle man it is hard to imagine. Hope this fills some gaps.
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