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Big Hearted Tiny
Tiny by name, but that was about all. Eric Callaghan was one of the 1980s heavyweight big boys, weighing in at around 30 stones. The 1980s was the era of oversized wrestlers, and whilst some had negligible skill Tiny was the exception who, whilst understadably not a great technician, had the versatility and staying power to work British rings for over a decade
Eric Callaghan was born in High Wycombe in 1948 and tempted into the professional ring at a relatively late age in his mid thirties. Our earliest finding was Tiny losing by disqualification to John Elijah in June, 1982, As it was the 1980s he inevitably found himself in tag action, the villainous fall-guy in the opposite corner to Big Daddy and one of his myriad of partners.
Televised appearances for Tiny in 1984 saw him partnering Sid Cooper, Lucky Gordon and Scrubber Daly, with Big Daddy one of the opponents in each match. At the Royal Albert Hall he partnered Lucky Gordon to dutifully go down to Big Daddy and Danny Collins. He made two further television appearances, on both occasions inevitably going down to Big Daddy and his partner.
For a short time in 1984 Tiny revived one of the great names of British wrestling, The Ghoul.
Tiny’s biggest challenge came twenty years later, when he began the battle against the bulge. He succeeded and became a shadow of his former self successfully reducing his weight to well under twenty stones.
Tiny went into retirement living in Welwyn Garden City, but remained busy working for St John’s Ambulance. Tiny Callaghan was born on 24th June, 1948 and died on 7th April 2026.
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