Les Kellett Vs. Leon Arris (1974)

[thegallerian]

This is different class to modern wrestling. No cages, no chairs, no steroids just good clean fun. Brilliant.

[tjl009]

How about that then

[gizzytiersen]

What memories. Les Kellett was my hero back then as a kid....and there is Brian Glover...wonderful! Of course it was all choreographed but they were athletes and well drilled. Great entertainment. Where iss the old dear with the handbag?

[TheSkwirrel]

Kellett won by a little known northern wrestling move called ' Ferret down trousers '

[wordreet]

Wooooo!! Hahahahahahahah! Genius performances both!! X¬D So glad to see some videos of these guys. I had forgotten just way our whole family enjoyed watching the wrestling all those years ago. Hahahahahahahah! These guys were had comedy in their veins and the skills to match!!! Thanks so much for sharing.

[yeovil50]

Great to see - yeah so what with the hindsight of age we now know it was faked,but what great entertainment these guys put on .RIP Les and Brian and thanks for the laughs..

[EggBagg26]

Last night I made love on an antique rotating water-bed.

[tokenmove]

The original Dirtiest Player in the Game

[ggwillym]

its a dvd -best of itv wrestling

[Rikkyhardo]

If Les Kellet was born in 1915, that makes him 59 - 60 in this clip. That's amazing

[ESWEfounder]

does anyone know what this documentary is named?

[drummergirl651]

hahaha propa funny that was pure class, good entertainment!

[RickstaRIIx]

Of course its The Great Brian Glover

Les Kellett a very hard man in and out of the ring

Gods of British wrestling

[jonno1230]

@JapStrangler: Glover had to fill in for a French wrestler called Leon Arras who didn't turn upto a bout and kept the name. He met the real Leon Arras some years later, they arm-wrestled for the name. Glover won, he reckons Arras let him win.

[hulkmaniarunswild]

Now THIS! this is real wrestling

[JapStrangler]

It is! It is Brian Glover!

[podfunk]

It's Brian bloody Glover for sure!!

[Suriel1981]

Colt Cabana has cited Les Kellett as being a major influence on his style and obviously Nigel McGuinness is known for using Kellett's classic rope tip-up, so in a way Les lives on.

[danny9649]

My mum`s step dad`s sister actually had an affair with les brother, back in the day, teuious link i know!

[19chicago75]

KELLETT POWER DATS ALL I GOT 2 SAY!!!

[scottishguy9999]

it is brian glover

[boroboy1953]

Leon Arris looks and sounds remarkably like Brian Glover, the famed actor in KES.

What do you think?

[briartlaw]

@boroboy1953 he is the same a good actor..

[LMNOP96345]

@boroboy1953 Leon Arras is Brian Glover.

[AlexDCl]

Arris was a member of the Royal Shakespear Company, I didn't know they had Yorkshiremen in Shakespear.

[lunchboxattacks1]

Even though I grew up with WWF/E, I have an equal appreciation for this as well. It is a good antidote to the soap opera and repetitive American wrestling of today. I think in the American style the storytelling aspect has been lost for the most part, y'know like a wrestler stamping on his opponents hands or working a body part throughout the match. I like this as a (fixed) struggle between two grapplers, slow and steady but with a narrative that gets you involved. Also lol at the old dear!!

[hoppy82]

lol wat a classic I used to watch every saturday without fail brilliant.

[sweetypie000]

Lol, brian glover from an american werewolf in london

"Remember the alamo, and threw out the mexican !"

those were the days, gentle fun showing it up as the joke it was, not like today with all that bullshit wreslting pretending to be real

great days

[BenMatthews7825]

Completely agree.

These add more comedy to it :)

[mcjeff1234]

true,the only difference being ,the crowd were almost asleep as apposed to today where they are rarely seated,the wrestlers look like me grandad whereas today they are super fit athletes,and of course todays wrestling turns over billions in profits and the workers are worldwide heroes,. if you would have told the old timers in them days its fixed ,they denied it venoumously and you might get a slap,wheras today they are very open about that fact.other than that you are spot on there!

[sweetypie000]

i must disagree

back then the audience knew it was fake - that was the gentile social attraction to the wrestling (unless you believe people really thought Big Daddy was unbeatable ? for example lol)

my opinion is the fans take it way more serious today because the audience (americans for example) are much more gullible and thrive on violence and a gung-ho mentality

but anyway.....

[mcjeff1234]

i know you will probably think im lying here but i have been wrestling proffesionally since i was 16 ,im now 34,and believe me there is no one that isnt clued up nowadays ,we have to hit harder and take bigger bumps to make up for it,the internet tells people what goin to happen in matches sometimes weeks in advance ,and there has been many films in the last 10 yrs exposing us as entertainment,we are even classed as sports entertainers now

[mcjeff1234]

cont..... back in the day people believed it was real -FACT ,and you still run into people from this generation in crowds-old women etc who tell me that it used to be real when old les was knocking about,today its more soap opera and we follow storyines and people appreciate the drama and its alot bloody harder work to make a living than it was then-FACT, wrestlers back then kept it kayfabe ,and wrestling was very guarded,kellet took it more serious than anyone,& thats from people that knew !him

[mcjeff1234]

cont again...alot of people bought into that fat piece of shit big daddy being unbeatable ,i know its hard to believe but big daddy was over massive and people thought he was alegit hard man. belive me ive wrestled everywhere and met alot of the fans from this era,they belived it,not all,but probabbly 80%,dont get me wrong they would ask if its fake but even if these guys said yes the public only believed what they wanted to believe,thats why they are known as marks.

[ellandrd1306]

personally i think you might be a '''der !

[mcjeff1234]

Haven't got a clue what that means, why not just write it in full instead of that shit u wrote?

[ellandrd1306]

i think you might be a member of the village people !

[mcjeff1234]

WOW,what a fuckin dickhead!

[thewalpoleone]

Great stuff. My dad used to love watching this on Saturdays

[sweetypie000]

and me too ! (not with your dad hehe)

[slydewinder]

This is more Vaudvile than wrestling

[scottishguy9999]

yeah its brian glover from kes

[ellandrd1306]

saturday afternoons have never been the same since the wrestling finished on itv

[waschbeckenfrisch]

Les Kellett &. Leon Arris > Jeff Hardy, Batista, John Cena

[HitMeQuick]

That's Brian Glover from Kes isn't it?

[BenMatthews7825]

A lot better than this recent WWF or whatever they call it these days

[ObiJoe808]

why is it?

[slydewinder]

So is a root canal

[youngdk7]

thank you for uploading this video i was to young to see my great great great uncle wrestle but my grandad told me he was one of the best at what he did r.i.p les kellett

[colinjpowell]

Oh yes..the late great Les Kellet, always loved watching him wrestle..he could have fun with an opponent or he could get real serious with them! Wrestled well into miuddle age too! This match with Leon arris (Brian Glover) was a typical Les fun match! Brilliant!

[tigerboy1966]

Brilliant showmen, very funny (laughed out loud at 4.34!). Kellett was in phenomenal shape considering he was about 60 years old at the time (born c 1915).

[kirkwanglers32]

Much missed both wrestlers.

Les Kellet was a hard man.

[bluesy365a]

That was a Saturday when I was a kid and les Kellett was my favourite !!

[kirkwanglers32]

Good British Wrestlers.

[atlantean468]

Les was totally brilliant wrestler.You could watch Les over and over again great comic in the ring.

The fight network was showing the world of wrestling recently ft Les Kellet .sadly the channel was taking off the air for some unknown reason.

[kirkwanglers32]

Hi There i wonderd why i couldn,t get the fight Channel.

Thanks Mate.

[chickzidane]

the best wrestling match ever!! genius!!

[cuddycuddydumdum]

Yep you're right and I'm wrong,It is the best wrestling match ever.

[darganx]

Old lady in the fromt row: 'Go on Les, Kill him'

hohoho

[AC4862]

Les Kellet (born 1919 i think), what a funny,entertaining man but also a superb wrestler. R.I.P

[ellandrd1306]

les kellett and catweazle superb wrestlers and very very funny

[cuddycuddydumdum]

Best wrestling match on utube

[eruptionista]

I loved that man. Les Kellett was one of the great comics of the century and certainly the funniest in this bizarre theatre. Thank you so much for posting this.

[HyPeRengland]

Leon Arris aka Brian Glover became an actor starring in lots of TV and Films including Alien 3

[woodcraftfolk]

The football scene in Kes was his finest moment.

[helltopay1]

thanks for this 34 yrs ago!! les apparently was a very hard man wonder how old he was here

[docwebstr]

Whatever became of Leon Arris?

[tonebarry]

Great performances all round. Pure theatre.

[herringthorpe]

Or should I say Denis Law.

[dermot51]

what a syrup wore it in Minder kept on calling everyone" chuffa " brilliant

[herringthorpe]

Was Bobby Charlton in the wash again ?

[00simonwise]

The wonderful Brian Glover on the receiving end there, of course.

[dermot51]

great comic actor played the pe  teacher in Kes

[kirkwanglers32]

Les RIP my frend.

And you to Brian. RIP.