1978 in bombastic Bedford

Kendo Nagasaki - one of the "Big Five" legends of British professional wrestling. The silent but deadly masked assassin whose mystique remains fascinating to this day. A few months before this, however, he'd taken part in a famous unmasking ceremony on television. This would be the first bout in a short run where he worked without his trademarked red and white striped mask. He was accompanied by his manager, Gorgeous George, who was a camp and effeminate contrast to the ultra-macho Nagasaki. This bizarre pairing only makes sense when you learn that the two "lived together".

Pete Roberts - I know nothing about Pete Roberts except that his nickname - "Judo" Pete Roberts - is a cast iron guarantee that he has no more martial arts training than any other man who once saw a kung fu movie, and that Pete Roberts was also the name of a character in "Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair". This is almost certainly just a coincidence.

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A strangely physical affair. Nagasaki - still learning to use his face after years as a masked man - had a permanent look of confused terror. He received two public warnings (the equivalent of yellow cards - one more meant disqualification) for generally beating Roberts up when he wasn't supposed to. Roberts even had the temerity to score the first fall before the bout fell apart. They strove for a degree of realism in those days (don't laugh) and the impression they wanted to convey was that Nagasaki was pissed off. Either pissed off or crazy. Or both. The bout degenerated into scrappy violence and Nagasaki was on the verge of being red carded when he tossed Roberts out of the ring and the latter landed so badly he couldn't go on. It was only the ludicrously theatrical performance of referee Brian Crabtree (Big Daddy's little brother) which made it absolutely clear that this wasn't a real example of a wrestling match going sour and one guy going into business for himself.

It doesn't get much more evil than the red-eyed devil, Kendo Nagasaki. On this night the better man lost a harsh decision and evil once more takes the lead.

Good 3-4 Evil

Broadcast in July 1978 in the gap between "The Invasion of Time" and "The Ribos Operation", Nagasaki was a more terrifying foe than both the Vardans and the cockney Sontarans put together.