Henry Zebrowski
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Podcast Appearances
I fucking love it.
I adore Manchester, but Jesus Christ.
But Jimmy Savile was no stranger to violence at the plaza.
He claimed to tie up and gag troublemakers in the basement of his club.
He'd keep them there until the end of the night, and then, at the end of the night, the bouncers would haul the troublemakers out and beat them half to death in the street.
Savile claimed that his main crew in Manchester was a trio of what he called Hungarian heavies.
These were men who had worked in the concentration camps in Europe, disposing of bodies for the Nazis during the Holocaust, or so Saville said.
Saville proudly used the same name for these guys that the Nazis did.
He called these men his Sonderkommandos, and they were supposedly used any time Saville needed to get his hands dirty with straight-up violence.
Saville also, around this time, made friends with a local wrestler named Bill Binney, known in the ring as Man Mountain.
Man Mountain!
Pretty awesome.
He's a man.
He is certainly a Man Mountain.
Man Mountain had invested in a few dance halls around Manchester, so he and Salvo grew close.
Allegedly, Man Mountain was also involved in organized crime, and he always made sure that Jimmy Salvo was protected.
So at this point, it's the 50s.
He's in his 30s.
He's still kind of just starting out, but he already has control over both leagues.
No.