1979 BIG DADDY VS MIGHTY JOHN QUINN (BRITISH WRESTLING) HQ

[nikolaitheterrible]

Just found this classic. I remember all build up too. It made every Brit hate Quinn and when Big Daddy beat him I bounced around the front room like a ball. Having found this video I think it ended earlier than expected. Big Daddy falls down hard on Quinn with his shoulder blade and I think he genuinly injured him. Great bout.

[tigerboy1966]

I remember in the build-up to this Quinn taking a teddy bear from a kid at ringside and ripping it to pieces. Now that's evil for you!

[MrManfly]

ah, "Big John Quinn" was a wrestling giant in Western Canada for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in the early to mid 70's. he was our North American Champion a few times.

[Littlelambism]

Those were the days of British Wrestling!

[canaries1987]

im flicking through these world of sport wrestling days trying to find my grandad Peter Jay the referee, most of them have Peter Szackas in, if you know any that he is in a link would be very greatful, thanks

[Tube11ize]

what a legend,Big daddy was just classic,cant believe some shit ass WWE wrestler is named Big daddy V :( why steal a British legends name!!

[pjsage921]

so that is were john Quinn went after he lived in rhyl i saw him "fight" against tony st clair in denbigh town hall must have been the early 80's

[tiggerums]

The memories. I grew up with all this. It's great to see it all again.

[stanssoapbox]

The buid up to the contest was very clever, as soon as Quinn stepped foot in the country he was destroying opponents, bad mouthing British wrestlers & calling out challenges to Big Daddy. The suspense was built up with every opponent he fought, never losing, never dropping the act even when the bouts were not televised. I saw him twice beating different opponents in non televised bouts and he was the best pantomime villain ever. Just watching on youtube doesen't give this this bout justice.

[stanssoapbox]

I have strong memories of watching this on tv in 1979 even though i only saw it the one time , no replays, no highlights on the evening news, no videos, no reruns and no youtube where you can watch it as many times as you want.

This was such an anticipated event with an incredible build up that went on for months with the big mouthed Canadian insulting the British at every opportunity and calling out challenges to Big Daddy, that even tho i knew it was fake it still seemed somehow satisfying.

[ChadTheWrestleManiac]

Explan to me who big daddy is! im becoming a fan of his!

[TheUltimateEbil]

@ChadTheWrestleManiac The Hulk Hogan of Britain basically

[MrMarcbubba]

This is so unreal. There is a cab driver in this little town in British Columbia that I see most every day.... turns out he is the "Mighty" John Quinn and I just found this out today.

[matelot95]

They built this up for weeks and it lasted less than two minutes. As much as the grannies and the kids loved him, Big Daddy and the Crabtrees killed the Golden Goose that was a massive TV crowd puller.

[vordman]

Lol. You can see Quinn cooperating with Crabtree in the crotch holds. You can just imagine these two working out the "fight" moves in a gym somewhere. What I like about it most though is Charterhouse educated Kent Walton taking it all dead seriously. Wonderful nonsense.

[golofaporteri]

how did you get the film of this??

[dokkenratt]

If i remember correctly this was shown on cup final day 1979. As an 11 year old boy Big Daddy warmed my heart that day (and then Alan Sunderland went and broke it in the last minute of the cup final lol)

[mrseanday100]

Big Daddy at his finest!

[tgzvt]

Please teach someone Big Daddy entrance music

[AndyPVale]

What an embarrassment. I've tried watching some Big Daddy videos to see what the fuss was about but he just looks like a talentless barrel. A good character, but so dull to watch.

[kanenkitten]

@AndyPVale: You should check out his match against John Elijah then

[AndyPVale]

@kanenkitten I just looked it up. Kudos where it's due, that was a good match. Especially where he reversed the side back drop, very athletic and took me by surprise. A shame that his character just turned into this invincible belly bouncing joke.

[kanenkitten]

@AndyPVale: I suppose you could liken him to the British version of Hulk Hogan. Both had the talent but their promotions had no need for it once they were instituted as the top stars

[AndyPVale]

@kanenkitten Agree with the Hulk comparison. Again, the Hulk could wrestle some great matches but too many others were just gimmick exhibitions. It sells a load of shirts to kids and I understand the value of having 'stars' instead of wrestlers, but I'm just not interested in them if they can't do the business in the ring.

[mightywibble]

@AndyPVale that's exactly why British wrestling died, if he did a few more moves and let new talent in,,British wrestling i think would still be here today

[kers80bhp]

your welcome

[tweedy127]

It would have been amazing to have been there and seen this live. Great stuff. RIP Daddy.

[budders2001]

At the end of the day we BRITS WON end of

[MrManfly]

what the hell did i just watch?

[kers80bhp]

a british wrestling legend, before we had satellite tv

[BottomlessJackDaniel]

What was that theme Big Daddy used here? lol

[kanenkitten]

@BottomlessJackDaniel: We shall not be moved

[mma720]

EEEasy EEEasy EEEsay Big DADDy was the bestthanks for posting.

[kers80bhp]

thanks