Also known as Steve Warren*, Ralph Reamer
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Billy Sigworth was another of those talented wrestlers from that hotbed of professional wrestling, the North East of England. A thriving wrestling scene in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to dozens of pro wrestlers, most of whom played important supporting roles to the main event stars. Billy Sigsworth was the name, though earlier in his career he used the names Steve Warren and Ralph Reamer. He was a fast and usually “clean” welterweight wrestler, weighing just under twelve stones. The clue was in the attire, if he was wearing wrestling trunks fans could expect a clean, technical match, but when he pulled on those black tights the villain came out.
Billy learned to wrestle at the St Lukes Club in Middlesbrough, alongside Eddie Fox and Sean McNeill. The St Lukes Matmen would organise professional style shows for charities around the North East. This led to a professional career, using the names Ralph Reamer or, more often, Steve Warren. When not wrestling he continued to work as a television engineer. Billy also wrestled in a tag team under the name of The Teessiders along with Sean McNeil. He was good friends with Jimmy Devlin, Eddie Fox and Steve Walton when working for Don Robinson in the Scarborough area.
Billy worked for most of the main independent promoters around the north of England, including Don Robinson, Chunky Hayes, Jim Stockdale and Jackie Pallo. When Ron Taylor brought his boxing and wrestling booth to the Town Moor he could be found working the booth accepting challenges from the crowd. His son, Gary, told us “Watching him when I was a kid at the Scarborough spa on the bill with people like Butcher Goodman and Adrian Street etc are some of my happiest memories.”
Billy Sigworth died in 2010.
*There was also another Steve Warren about whom we would like to hear more.
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