Jumper now wrestler
O’.Z. Press Assn —Copyright) LONDON. The international show-jumper, Harvey Smith, is starting a new career as a professional wrestler. "I’m not going into this as a gimmick,” Smith said yesterday, “I mean to fill the halls as Harvey Smith, wrestler, not Harvey Smith, show-jumper.” The “Sunday People” quoted 34-year-old Smith as saying "I’m as good as anyone, and I’m ready to fight anyone.” Smith has been training tn Yorkshire gymnasiums for a year. “I’ve been trained by professional fighters who know all the ropes and all the tricks,” he said, “I found I was becoming stale with show-jumping, so I thought I would have a bash at wrestling.” Smith gained notoriety in August, 1.971, when he made a twofinger gesture at the Hickstead show-jumping ground,
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33521, 30 April 1974, Page 14
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