Also known as Jim McCombie
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A Flying Scot
Scotland’s Jim McCombie moved to the North East of England from his native Scottish home of Montrose Settled in Newcastle he worked for a bakery and later moved to Gateshead where he worked at Thornes Electricals. In Newcastle Jim trained at the gymnasium of Walter McCrae and Ted Gutteridge the body builder.
He learned to wrestle in the fairground booths of the north and regularly took on challenges in Ron Taylor’s wrestling booths. They were hard days taking on challengers five or six times a day, but the experience gave Jim a robustness and confidence to make his way in wrestling.
Jim worked for independent promoters during the 1960s and 1970s wrestling mainly in the north east, but sometimes travelling further afield. He was known professionally by both his birth name and that of Rob Roy McGregor. A villain in his early days Jim McCombie later turned blue eye. Whatever the style he was always colourful, the kilted Scot accompanied to the ring by two or more pipers, marching round the hall to the cheering and clapping accompaniment of the fans.
A genuinely hard man he had a reputation amongst fellow wrestlers as an opponent who was relentless and aggressive. Jim kept himself fit and was attending his local gym until a few months before he died.
James McCombie, born 30th September, 1932, died 11th May 2010.
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