Person Open DS/UK/12309 Mulligan; Black Jack (1940-); English wrestler Mulligan Black Jack 1940- English wrestler Male Jack Mulligan

Black Jack Mulligan (born c. 1940) is an English former professional wrestler. He was a contemporary of such British wrestlers as Big Daddy, Jim Breaks, Tony "Banger" Walsh, Giant Haystacks and many others on the UK scene. This section requires expansion with: prose on education. (September 2013) A Geordie from Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England, he was born Laurance Coulson to a working-class Tyneside family. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he could be seen at the usual British wrestling venues sporting his trademark cape, long "Ayatollah"-style beard and scowl. Mulligan played the bad guy with relish and usually lost to the preening good-guy wrestlers. One famously broke both ankles after vaulting over the ropes and landing badly on a row of chairs when being pursued enthusiastically by the massive Big Daddy. Mulligan wrestled once or twice a week and could occasionally be seen on the television series World of Sport on a Saturday afternoon. The pay was not great though and he supplemented his income by working as a boiler stoker and did the early morning rounds to institutions such as schools, hospitals and old folks homes. Despite his bad-guy image (as was the case with other bad-guy wrestlers such as Breaks), Mulligan and his family sometimes fostered children from local children's homes. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 2/7/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 f48f60bc-9f7c-4a10-b842-d8a93b227775