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Steve Taylor
Yes, another one. These Taylor’s are like buses and once one arrives they just keep coming! Back across the Pennines to the Yorkshire Taylor clan. Steve was the son of Eric Taylor and older brother of Dave Taylor, so wrestling was certainly in his blood. With such credentials we could expect an accomplished wrestler, and he certainly was. Steve displayed the expected characteristics of the Taylor family
Coming onto the scene in the mid 1970s Steve was a breath of fresh air in a landscape of growing wrestling nonsense. We saw him wrestle for the first time, at Preston, in 1975, when he had been wrestling for about a year. His opponent was Bobby Barnes and Steve lost to the far more experienced man.
In the years that followed he became a popular figure around the halls and a flurry of activity on tv in 1975 with opponents that included Bert Royal, Jeff Kaye, Alan Wood and Kung Fu. Then he disappeared. For armchair fans that was. He remained very active around the halls, working for independent promoters.
Steve returned to the television screens in 1987, but by then the writing was on the wall for British wrestling.
Had British style wrestling continued to flourish the stylish Steve Taylor would have been destined to become one of the great heavyweights of the early twenty-first century.
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