Tony Charles

[3.0] "Look...yah yah yah technical skill, polished ring veteran yadda yadda, for his age\ his conditioning was extraordinary blah blah... The realty is, as The Checkmate he would curl into a ball like an armadillo and that's the exact moment I would fast forward because no one bothered to stomp the dogs#it out of him, instead they would throw their hands in the air and look at the ref like "do something"....gawdamnit, just elbow drop him or SOMETHING! ...too stupid to excuse. Now, what I have seen of "Tony Charles" was pretty good for the time, so we have to do some math here. Tony Charles = 6, Checkmate = 0.5, divided by 2 and ...ouch; a 3.25. Judge for yourself, watch for that armadillo spot and get back to us here on cagematch with your own feelings."

[8.0] "As just for technical skills he would get a 10 Charles wrestled from 1959 to 1984, with him working under the name The Checkmate as part of Devastation Inc. during the last few years of his career. Charles was one of the best technical wrestlers in North America, an underrated talent who first made his name on the European sceneThe Welsh Wizard, for all his skill and popularity, was limited in his success. When the tag team craze began taking over in the 1960s, a young Adrian Street aspired to tag with him they were dubbed the "Welsh Wizards, " their partnership was a successful one, particularly in Northern England. However, Adrian was destined to be a villain and they split up so he could team with Bobby Barnes. Tony Charles, like many British heavyweights, had opportunities overseas and he did not squander them His international break was a tour of Japan in 1968 with the IWEand he started in North America in 1972 as the tag team partner of Len Rossi. he first came to Florida in 1973 and Eddie Graham loved to book him in technical matches against Les Thornton, that would tear down the housa master technical wrestler a legit tough guy he earned the respect of many for his guts. In the ring, tony charles was considered a master of the highest level by many of his peers. He is even one of the few pros with a spot named for him as a series of monkey flips and roll throughs while two men are in a knucklelock is known to many in the business as a “TC” in honor of Tony Charles."