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We have multiple entries under the name Premier Promotions
Premier Promotions (1960s – Frank Price)
Premier Promotions was a name used by veteran wrestler and promoter Frank C. Price in the 1960s. Frank was a promoter going back to the 1940s. In 1946 he was the Managing Director of the Stagg and Rusell store in London’s Leicester Square. He announced that permission had been granted for him to convert the store into a leisure and sporting venue that he claimed would rival Madison Square Garden. His plans included running regular wrestling, boxing, billiards and table tennis tournaments. The venue would also house a cabaret and international restaurant to rival the glory days of the pre war Haus Vaterland in Berlin. As far as we know the plans came to nothing and the Stagg and Russell company was eventually sold to Burton the Tailors.
Frank C Price was also involved in promoting the February, 1947 World Heavyweight Championship Tournament at Harringay.
It was 1959 that we found Premier Promotions putting on shows around Southern England. This allowed access to star names like George Kidd, Joe D’Orazio and Eddie Capell, who had recently left Joint Promotions, along with other big names such as Bert Assirati and Charlie Scott.
In January 1962 Premier Promotions began promoting in conjunction with Dale Martin Promotions.
When not promoting Frankie could be found running his café, The Square Ring Coffee Bar. Frankie also trained wrestlers at his gymnasium and is responsible for bringing numerous youngsters into the business, Billy LaRue Tony Ansell and Zoltan Boscik learning from him.
See also British Wrestling Federation
Premier Promotions (1980s – John Fremantle)
The name was revived in the 1987. John Fremantle’s Premier Promotions only just fits into our Heritage Years. In spirit, though, Freemantle is up there receiving our acknowledgment and admiration as much as anyone, because Premier Promotions continued to present traditional wrestling well into the twenty-first century. To enter the business in the late 1980s demonstrated more than a little courage. The way in which Fremantle conducted that business during the following twenty years demonstrated a great deal of integrity.
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