This is my first Joint Promotions review, especifically the welterweight division. We all know how good the lighter divisions are, they’re full of classics like Adrian Street vs Jim Breaks in 1972 that I thought about reviewing for today. The match I’m going to talk about is one of those classics but this one is very under the radar.
We are tired of hearing about Johnny Saint, Jim Breaks and Steve Grey, they’re great I’m not denying that but at the same time they overshadowed other workers that aren’t that good like Clive Myers and Alan Sarjeant. The 70’s were full of classics but that era wasn’t Joint Promotions’ most popular era that goes to the 1960’s when many of the greats from 70’s debuted like one of my favourite wrestlers ever Jim Breaks, sadly we don’t have a lot of footage from the 60’s, in fact, we have almost nothing from this period of time, I hope that someday some of that footage will be recovered but that’s highly unlikely nowadays. As Kevin Garnett once said: ‘‘Everything’s possible’’. For those unfamiliar with english wrestling around that time the match is organized with rounds, usually they’re six five minute rounds with a minute to rest between them. If you want to have a better understanding of british wrestling feel free to visit Othani’s Jacket’s beginner’s guide to british wrestling, he’s an expert, he has seen almost if not all the english footage out there and he is way more knowledgeable than me in regards to this particular topic.
Now let’s go to the match, the announcer presented both wrestlers as champions in their respective countries, Clive Myers is jamaican and Alan Sarjeant is english. Alan Sarjeant was famous for his amazing escapes and he showed that from the very beginning of the contest escaping Myers’ full nelson with ease. Sarjeant felt like the better wrestler troughout the match, he escaped a boston crab in a way that I can’t describe with words. After twenty minutes of action the match went to the third round, the third round is full of pin attempts and high impact moves like the butterfly suplexes that Myers applied, after 21 minutes Myers got the pin with a sunset flip.
A match that I highly recommend this match to everyone that likes catch-as-catch-can wrestling.