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Mick McManus

shirty5
shirty5 Posts: 19,247
in Not Sports Related
Passed away aged 93. RIP.

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,113
    R.I.P.

    A very long life by wrestling standards.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Not me ears!

    RIP
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,909
    used to love watching him with Jackie "mr Tv Pallo" as a tag team ...that great forearm smash always used to come out when he was losing and Mick "the baddie" would turn it round and always win ...used to do a lot of work with the Lords Taverners


  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    RIP
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    RIP. One of the best.
  • Indigo Joe
    Indigo Joe Posts: 551
    RIP.

    93 years old, blimey that makes me feel aged. World of Sport Saturday afternoon waiting for the footie results while my dad watched the wrestling. Time really bloody moves doesn't it?
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    I'm sure he wouldn't mind me calling him a nasty bastard!

    Enjoyed watching him just before the football scores on a Saturday with the great Kent Walton commentating to us grapple fans.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    One of my earliest childhood memories is of my My Nan, a serious Jackie Pallo fan ,screaming serious verbal abuse at Mick. I think it was the worst language I'd ever heard at the time, I was about 5. I've been a chef for over 30 years I've heard a lot worse since. RIP Mick.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    The Saturday afternon TV wrestling must have been the original shout at the tele program.

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  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,909
    addickfanatic said:

    One of my earliest childhood memories is of my My Nan, a serious Jackie Pallo fan ,screaming serious verbal abuse at Mick. I think it was the worst language I'd ever heard at the time, I was about 5. I've been a chef for over 30 years I've heard a lot worse since. RIP Mick.

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,909
    re above we must have had the same Nan !
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,771
    Blimey! I thought he had died years ago.
    I saw him when i was 11 at the Woolwich Odean along with Big Daddy & Giant Haystacks.

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,380
    who remembers referee Lou Marco (spelling) .. 'it's up to you McManus' .. as Mick was beating the canvas in ersatz agony as his opponent went for a submission .. but old Mick .. he'd rather have his limbs pulled off than submit
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,381
    Remember watching the wrestling as kids at my grandads house. God bless the memories. RIP Mick
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    My dad knew mick well and one day as a teenager i was arguing with my old man and mick was passing and saw it he got out of a car and came over to give me a dig before my dad laughed and said mick this is the scrawny little shit you used to pick up and swing above your head


    RiP mick
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,372
    Loved watching him and still do. World of Sport still gets an airing from time to time on some obscure Sky channel.
    I believe he reckoned he was undefeated in the ring just disqualified a few times.
    New Cross finest
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    didnt he come from New Cross ?


    RIP Mick
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Indigo Joe said:

    RIP.

    93 years old, blimey that makes me feel aged. World of Sport Saturday afternoon waiting for the footie results while my dad watched the wrestling. Time really bloody moves doesn't it?

    Christ! Are you me?
    I had the exact same recollection
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    He did GH my oldman and him became friends in deptford around creek rd

    I dont have many memories of mick as i was real young when he was around only four or five but that one time not far from where the horrific act happend today is etched in my noggin

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  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,064
    Sure I must have seen him a few times at The Odeon in Woolwich when they had the wrestling. I must have been about 8/9 in the mid-70s. Certainly remember him from World of Sport on a Saturday afternoon.

    Rest in Peace Mr McManus.
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,398
    Somewhere up there my dear Nan will be very upset at that news. She loved Jim McManus, althought not as much as Big Daddy. RIP Mick and if you see my Nan, please giver her a hug. She will be made up.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,902
    Was it him who used to go mental when people pulled his ears?

    Remember watching the old World of Sport wrestling round my nans.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,070
    RIP
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,831
    RIP. A wrestling legend.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,204
    Here's an amusing story told to me by my dad to remember Mick by:
    The wrestling circus often used to travel around the country together in a coach.
    There was always a good deal of banter.
    On one trip, Jackie Pallo - who was not the sharpest tool in the box - was saying what a good runner he was.
    Mick bet him that he couldn't run a minute in 60 seconds. Jackie, bless him, was adamant he could, demanded the coach stopped and then sprinted down the road, much to the amusement of the other wrestlers, while Mick timed him. After a minute, Mick told Jackie it had taken him 65 seconds and he'd lost the bet.
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Met him once, tiny little bloke but a great entertainer. happy memories, RIP.

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