Also known as Hardy Lingus
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The later of the two Roy Scotts we have in our A-Z. Leicester’s Roy Lings began his career mid 1960s following training by Jack Taylor. Jack Taylor gave him his professional break, at the Granby Halls in Leicester. Such a huge hall must have been a daunting place for the youngster. Eighteen year old Roy took to the professional ring on 11th March, 1967, against a masked Wonder Boy Robin (this was at the time Batman and Robin was popular on television. The name on the poster was Hardy Lingus, Hardy Lingus remained a regular on the independent circuit until he joined Joint Promotions.
His debut Joint Promotions match, like so many transferring across, was for associate Joint promoter Devereux at Salisbury, against a man he knew well, Pete Lapaqua.
Working for Joint Promotions opened the door to television exposure. Roy’s televised debut came on 21st April, 1984. In at the deep end he was partnered with Big Daddy against Tiny Callaghan and Lucky Gordon. The match followed the usual BIg Daddy tag match pattern with one exception. Roy did most of the work as usual, but surprisingly it was he that took both the falls over Lucky Gordon for the pair to win the match.
The following year Roy made his second television appearance. Not so fortunate this time with an opponent of Dave Finlay and the expected result of a Finlay win.
Our final sighting was on 13th January, 1988, wrestling Mal Sanders at Hastings. Shortly afterwards he emigrated to Australia.
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