The question of style is misleading. It was only acted out in one way but many towns had to have a toned down version as far as the advertising went. Some councils insisted that it could not be "all In"
Oakeley tried to have something different after the war in a fresh attempt to be the leading light in it all.
His venture failed.
You won't get much sense out of wrestling.
I don't accept that Britain had loads of styles of pro wrestling. It had numerous names for the same thing. Only my opinion of course.
Ron, totally agree with you, any pro wrestling match in the 30s (40s and 50s) almost always had pretty much the same look and appearance no matter whether it was Oakley, Callaghan, Relwyskow or Bankier or later Dale Martin and JP of Morell/Beresford. I think they (people who owned the businesses) created 'styles' to call their top draws 'champions' of Britain, Europe or even World to attract even more fans, another advertising trick. That's how we have at least 3 styles in the country: all-in, pro freestlye, modern XX c CACC, and yes in fact rules of those styles were different. Later in the 40s another kind of wrestling was added to the family of styles, it was called pro freestyle according the Mount Evans Rules, where all the legit holds were listed. Would be great one day in the future to have a table of all champions of Britain/Europe/World of all weights recognized in the United Kingdom, title-holders of all the major promotions & according their styles/rules. Just dreaming of course. It may never happen.
The question of style is misleading. It was only acted out in one way but many towns had to have a toned down version as far as the advertising went. Some councils insisted that it could not be "all In"
Oakeley tried to have something different after the war in a fresh attempt to be the leading light in it all.
His venture failed.
You won't get much sense out of wrestling.
I don't accept that Britain had loads of styles of pro wrestling. It had numerous names for the same thing. Only my opinion of course.