Reg Yates (wrestler)

Yates originally from Tredegar, was a member of the Birmingham Athletic Institute Amateur Wrestling Club^[1] and was the 1958 Midlands championship runner-up.^[2]

With no Welsh Wrestling Association in existence at the time, he was selected for the Empire Games team following trials in London, organised by the British Amateur Wrestling Association on 31 May 1958.^[3]

He represented the 1958 Welsh team^[4] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales,^[5] in the lightweight division of the wrestling competition, finishing sixth behind Muhammad Ashraf of Pakistan.^[6]

During the early 1960s, Yates turned professional and was a regular on television and was wrestling out of Castle Bromwich.^[7][8]