8 Awesome Wrestling Stars You've Never Even Heard Of
1. Johnny Saint
There are plenty of British wrestlers who competed on the holiday camp circuit and across the length and breadth of the country who you'd be forgiven for never having having heard of. Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki may be household names from the World Of Sport television show, but other names like Marty Jones, Les Thornton or Johnny Saint didnt ge't the exposure that they needed to become truly big. Johnny Saint, in particular, deserves far wider fame and more recognition.
The best kept secret in western wrestling, a consummate professional and a true gentleman of the sport, Saint is a gifted technical wrestler, perhaps one of the best that the industry has ever seen worldwide.
Decades ahead of his time, Saint debuted in 1958 at seventeen years old and retired in 1996 at the age of fifty-five but continued to perform well into this decade. He was an inspiration to countless European and American wrestlers for something like five generations: a massive influence on keen students of the technical aspects of professional wrestling like Fit Finlay, William Regal and Daniel Bryan.