1965 Exposé

Thanks The Ost.

I see the article is from 1965 but the note seems to be from an earlier Lincoln bill. Which throws up the fact that Marino was matchmaker there, seemingly around 1963. I didn't know that.

Mind you, the reporters could be more unscrupulous than the promoters. I got Marino's autograph scores of times and that doesn't look like the same hand. Could be wrong.

Damaging stuff ... that failed to cause any damage at all, as Ron says.

As long ago as 1961 the TV Times had an article which concluded that most fans concluded it was probably a fiddle but did not care.A distinction was made between a good fiddle and a bad fiddle.By the late 1970s it was becoming too much of an insultingly bad fiddle hence the subsequent decline

There was also this clipping, which I'd read about in The Wrestling but had never seen the actual article before:

Really amazing coincidence Anglo, I just came across the same article yesterday while indexing Dave Cameron's collection at the library here in NZ:

Looks like the source might have been Sean Regan.

And despite this exposure , it somehow slipped past most people and also some fans still did not believe it. Oh it's so true now though. One thing is does not mention is the sheer number of times wrestlers fought one another. That really went under the Radar until the archived newspapers became available. Yes there is a lot of content in there Anglo and all true. I still find it amazing that two men could fight out the same script in another town either that week , or next month or even next year. This sheer trickery and Hoax seems to be the reason we all love wrestling so much. It can never come back in the same way , which makes the old days so special.

And of course you are right Anglo , it has to be an inside job leaking it to the press with that amount of detail.