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Gyorgy Cselko was one of the refugees from Hungary who came to Britain following the 1956 uprising. A teenager at the time he settled in Leicestershire
George and his friend Imre Csak trained at the Leicester YMCA. Wrestling, though, was not Gyorgy’s primary interest, and was never to be. His main interest has always been in physical culture and developing his one time eight stones of skin and bones.
Like so many, it wasn’t too long before his path crossed with wrestler, trainer and promoter Jack Taylor. Taylor encouraged Gyorgy and Imre to try out wrestling. He turned professional in 1960,travelling the country for independent promoters with opponents that included Vince Apollo, Jack Cassidy, Bobo Matu and Dwight J Inglebergh. In tag matches he often teamed with his friend Imre Csak. Always mindful of his diet and weight training routines Gyorgy admitted that wrestling and physical culture did not go together easily.
According to his obituary in The Stage the first opponent of Pat Roach was Gyorgy Cselko. Gyorgy wrestled for eight years. He was even bestowed with a European Heavyweight title so that he could drop it to local boy Vince Apollo in 1967. Cselko disappeared afterwards, finally retiring in 1968. He continued his interest in body building and worked at the Leicester Y.M.C.A.
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