Scotland’s most famous wrestling venue Dundee’s Caird Hall is to roll back the years and host the sport’s biggest stars.
The venue has a rich history of wrestling dating back to legendary heavyweight Bert Assirati topping the bill before and after the Second World War.
Former world lightweight wrestling champion George Kidd was cheered on to victory dozens of times in the Caird Hall, while Primo Carnera also grappled there.
In 1959 Dundee’s Dave Kidney beat George Allan in front of 2,000 fans to win the BWA British Featherweight Championship.
Big Daddy performed in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, while British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith, Earthquake, Yokozuna, Greg Valentine, Tatanka and Jake the Snake Roberts were there in the early 2000s.
Now the Scottish Wrestling Entertainment (SWE) has secured the venue for Hell for Lycra XII and fans are being promised “a night to remember”.
The SWE’s home-grown grapplers will be lining up alongside World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame inductees Terry Funk and the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.
The American duo will appear alongside the British stars who lit up the TV screens every Saturday afternoon on ITV’s World of Sport in the 1970s and 1980s.
Promoter David Low said bringing the event to the Caird Hall was the culmination of a dream started 20 years ago.
He said: “On August 29, SWE will take over the storied venue where fans old and new can witness ground-breaking history and see a who’s who of wrestling perform at the event.”
World of Sport stars will include Marty Jones, Johnny Saint, Len Ironside, Dale Storm, Blondie Barratt and Keith Myatt.
Also earmarked to appear is Andy Robin, who owned Hercules the trained grizzly bear, which became a celebrity in the 1980s.
Playing the role of a gentle giant, the bear regularly drew audiences of 15 million viewers on ITV’s World of Sport.
It was this that gave Hercules early success, leading to a number of small acting roles on television.