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Started by: fairpaul (25)

As a boy I lived just across the road from Riley's Gym "at the bottom of Pyke Street" I started to train there when I was 16 ?
These are some of the people who were there at the time I was wrestling.
Show Wrestlers first:
Billy Joyce (Bob Robinson)
Tucker Moore / Jack Dempsey (Tommy Moore)
Roy Woods
Alan Woods
Billy Riley and his son Ernie Riley
Jack Cheers
An Irish Bloke who's name escapes me but he opened a 9 hole Golf course at Charnock Richard
others who wrestled there:
Tucker Moore's son son Mick Moore
Roy Evans (Wigan RL player)
Two most regular wrestling partners of mine were;
Ex Leigh RL hooker Frank Kirk
and Colin Rice - Skem
All fantastically talented people. Everyone was always made welcome. Billy Riley and the Pro Wrestlers were absolute gentlemen. I feel so privileged to have known them.
I can remember when I was at school that Sunday mornings seemed to be the day at Rileys Gym. One Sunday a wrestler I had seen on Tv parked outside our house, at the time they said he was from Bolton - I can't remember whether it was Billy Two Rivers or Massambula Pretty sure it was Billy Two Rivers.

Replied: 25th Apr 2021 at 17:19

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