Steve Veidor

Steve Veidor
Birth name	Steve Bell
Born	(1938-01-10) 10 January 1938 Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Steve Veidor Hermann Veidor Kurtz Kurtz Veidor Steve Bell
Billed height	6 ft 1.5 in (1.87 m)
Billed weight	220 lb (100 kg; 16 st)
Debut	1960s
Retired	1970s

Steve Bell (born 10 January 1938), better known by the ring name Steve Veidor, is a former British heavyweight professional wrestler of the 1960s and 1970s, usually billed as The Handsome Heart Throb.

Career

Bell was born in Ellesmere Port, a port in Cheshire, England. After service as a corporal in the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training Instructor, Veidor took up amateur wrestling. After turning professional, he initially wrestled as Hermann Veidor and Steve Bell. He won the Royal Albert Hall Tournament Trophy on three occasions. On 15 September 1978 Veidor won the European Heavyweight Championship at Liverpool, Great Britain.

Veidor made many appearances on ITV's World of Sport, and has wrestled across Europe, worked in films, television game shows and commercials. He appeared alongside other wrestlers in the 1968 cult film The Touchables, directed by Robert Freeman, and as Muscles in Derek Ford's 1973 film Keep It Up, Jack.

Between the months of February and March 1975, Veidor toured New Japan Pro-Wrestling, taking on such Japanese professional wrestling legends Antonio Inoki, Seiji Sakaguchi and Strong Kobayashi.

Championships and accomplishments

• Royal Albert Hall Tournament Trophy (3 times)

External links

• Steve Veidor website at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2009)
• Veidor on the Wrestling Furnace website
• Veidor on the Wrestling Heritage website
• Information on 'The Touchables'