they were doing there that night. It was like a bolt out of the blue.

"Jimmy Lewis, Grant Fotheringham, Danny Flynn, and Fred Wooley (well known British promoters of the day) were all there, and were actually still wrestling on the scene at the time. Whatís funny is that, even then, Billy never let me in on the tricks of wrestling (that outcomes were pre-determined) -- it was other people that did that. In the world that Billy showed me, wrestling was 100 per cent straight all the time."

Working in the north of England was very lucrative for Saint -- especially considering the factory work with which he had previously made his living -- but it was even more so when he travelled further south towards London, which wasall new territory for him. The biggest wrestlers in the British industry, like Mike Marino and Jackie Pallo, were working in the capital for Dale Martin Promotions, but while the opportunity to work with those household names was a great boon for Saintís career, the Joint Promotions alliance was what really began to give him some momentum.

"In old money, we used to get £3.00 and 10 shillings ($6.33CAD) for working at the men's clubs in Manchester. That was for six five-minute rounds, which was good money indeed. We could go to places like the Old Chester Drill Hall, or the Oswestry Baths on a Saturday night, fairly regularly throughout the year, and I could get £5 for the same. At the same time, I used to work in