Posted October 7, 200915 yr comment_5444910 Ringo Rigby was an ex-Judo guy like Chris Adams and Pete Roberts, who he toured with overseas. This was my first time watching him and he comes across as a second rate Marty Jones, which is by no means an insult. Johnny South is quality, as evidenced by the Marty Jones match, and this was a lesser version of Jones/South. It was one of those bouts that starts out clean and gets chippier as it wears on. There were two awesome submission spots and a bunch of forearm smashes. Great finish too. Kent Walton put Rigby over here as one of the best young workers around, stating Rigby/Haward as the bout he'd most like to see. This was around the time that a lot of workers became increasingly unhappy with their lot in Dale Martin and started to look for their fortune and fame overseas, and in a few cases guys jumped to All-Star Promotions before they had TV (most notably John Quinn, who walked out on DM with the heavyweight belt.) While it's unlikely that guys like Rigby or Haward would've ever drawn, this dissatisfaction ended up having a detrimentall effect on the TV. It's not so visible in 1980, but after the ITV contract renewal in 1982, the quality of the wrestling on TV begins to dip dramatically.
