Norman Morrell, Ted Beresford, Morrell-Beresford, Globe Promotions
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Three separate companies, closely linked: Norman Morrell Promotions, Ted Beresford’s Globe Promotions, and a joint venture – Morrell Beresford Promotions. All members of the Joint Promotions organisation, and before that the British Wrestling Promoters Association.
Yorkshire based promoters mainly in the North Midlands and Scotland, though with a few Southern venues. Norman Morrell and Ted Beresford put on first rate shows with a higher proportion of big names than Dale Martin in the South – or at least that’s what the Northern fans believed.
Morrell and Beresford each promoted under their own names as well as collaboratively. Our first recorded Norman Morrell tournament was in 1943 and first recorded Ted Beresford (Globe Promotions) tournament was in 1945. Globe Promotions was particularly noted for promoting wrestling spectaculars in Nottingham, Paisley and Sheffield.
Norman Morrell is featured extensively on Wrestling Heritage as a result of his successful international amateur career. Walter Leonard Beresford took up amateur wrestling whilst serving in the Army in the early 1930s. On his return to civilian life he turned professional, though his career was soon handicapped by the outbreak of war. Injury put paid to wrestling and Ted took up full time promoting in 1952.
Like Jack Dale, Les Martin and the Relwyskow family these two were wrestlers of the old breed who were keen to preserve the image of professional wrestling as a legitimate sport. All the more unfortunate, therefore when their number one referee, Don Branch, was more than a little indiscreet to News of the World reporters and revealed that everything was not quite as it seemed.
Norman Morrell Ltd and Globe Promotions went into voluntary liquidation on 16th December, 1974 when the companies were absorbed into the William Hill organisation, under the managerial guidance of Max Crabtree.The Morrell-Beresford company continued until it went into liquidation in 1988.
Read our tribute to Norman Morrell
Read our tribute to Ted Beresford
See also British Wrestling Promoters Association
See also Joint Promotions
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