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The name Wrestling Federation of Great Britain had been used in 1948 as a Wrestlers union. It re-surfaced in 1962 following the demise of the British Wrestling Federation. We can’t put a precise date on their formation but Jack Taylor’s International Promotions were members of the British Wrestling Federation in July, 1962 and members of the Wrestling Federation of Great Britain four months later in November 1962.
Unlike the earlier incarnation the WFGB was now a group of promoters who at least appeared to work collectively in opposition to Joint Promotions. In 1966 the Wrestling Federation of Great Britain claimed to have these promoters and 200 wrestlers as paid up members.
Don Robinson Promotions (Wrestling Spectaculars Limited)
Cape Promotions (Danny Flynn and Fred Woolley)
International Promotions (Jack Taylor)
North Western Promotions and O’Shea Enterprises (Sean O’Shea)
Twentieth Century Sports (Norman Berry)
Northern International (Cyril Knowles)
Orig Williams
Paul Lincoln Managements
Lew Phillips
South Pier Promotions (Dominic Pye)
Not to be outdone by Joint and their Lord Mount Evans pedigree the Wrestling Federation of Great Britain’s figurehead and President was Lord Corrigan. We assumed that everything was not as it appeared and that Corrigan was a Scarborough businessman and no doubt an associate of the Federation’s Chairman, Don Robinson. Our assumption was confirmed by Heritage member Allan Richardson. He told us: “That would be James Lord Corrigan – definitely not a member of the peerage. The family still operates an amusement arcade on the Scarborough foreshore. One of my summer jobs in about 1962 was that of a ‘key man’ in that arcade, then run by the son, Jimmy Corrigan. My job involved walking around with a bunch of keys round my neck, and if a coin stuck in a machine, it was my job to open the machine and deal with the problem. It was also my job to empty the machines of coins every evening. Sometimes I think that my shoulders still ache!”
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