On September 2, 1978 a 15-year-old Davey Boy Smith makes his professional wrestling debut on British television against “Wonder Boy” Bernie Wright on ITV's World of Sport. Mentored by Dynamite Kid Tom Billington's friend Alan Dennison in 1979, Smith was spotted by Bruce Hart, who was scouting talent in the UK, and both he and Billington travelled to Canada to wrestle for Stu Hart. Stu and Roy Wood trained Smith further in Hart's "Dungeon" and Smith became a key wrestler in Hart's Stampede Wrestl

Joseph "Jack" 31 August 1913 – 13 December 1978), known as "the Gorgeous Gael", was an Irish boxer, professional wrestler, actor, and a tenor. He was born Joseph Doyle but changed his name to Jack when starting his professional career.Considered a boxing prodigy in his youth, Doyle was a contender for the British Boxing Heavyweight Championship. However, his promising boxing career was destroyed by the emergence of his alcoholism, which he would continue to battle with for the rest of his life.

2.1K views · 108 reactions | January 23, 1978: Professional wrestlers Harley Race and Superstar Billy Graham grapple during a rainy night at the Orange Bowl. Special thanks to Alex Carter for sending this raw footage. | Ghosts of the Orange Bowl | Facebook

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Today In Wrestling History November 2, 2007, Mary Lillian Ellison, aka The Fabulous Moolah, died of a heart attack in Columbia, South Carolina. She was 84. Born July 22, 1923 in Tookiedoo, South Carolina, a small town near Columbia, Ellison was the only daughter and the youngest of five children. Her mother died of cancer at age eight and lived with her paternal grandmother and worked on her cousin’s cotton farm to make ends meet. Still affected by her mother’s death, her father began to take he