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Another of the popular Indian wrestlers who worked for both Joint Promotions and the independents in the 1960s and 1970s. Shem was the brother of Ajit Singh and a skilful middleweight that we watched in the 1960s.
Born in Calcutta in 1929, one of five brothers, he came to the UK from his home in Singapore in 1949, when he was nineteen years old . Shem’s father had first visited Britain in 1938, but returned with his family in 1949. He was a prominent member of the community in Manchester and founder member of the first Sikh Temple in Manchester.
Working in a factory and as a dock worker Shemsher Singh Bhakar’s first love was wrestling. Wrestling was in the family genes. Although he had wrestled in India and Singapore it wasn’t until 1958 that Shem Singh made his UK debut, defeating Tiger Woods in Macclesfield.
Shem continued wrestling in Britain during the 1960s. Two televised contests came his way, against Bobby Steele in 1964 and Julien Morice in 1965. Like many he ended his career on the independent circuit.
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