In the past we have discussed when the first tag matches took place. Definitely not early 1960s as claimed by Kent Walton.
The issue was clouded by team matches that were not tag matches as we knew them in the 1960s.
Ron managed to locate tag matches as we know them them back to the late 1940s, I can't remember the exact year. It may have been a year or two earlier than this, but I don't think we've shared this July 1949 programme before, explaining the rules of something very similar to what we knew as tag wrestling.
This is certainly not a tag match and so doesn’t better Ron’s first sighting in 1949.
But there are elements that will be very familiar to post war tag fans and shows us yet again that there is nothing new.
It’s a report of a match at Lanes London Club in August, 1937.
The match was described as a four handed whirlwind over ten minutes. Four wrestlers, two a side faced each other. When one wrestler was thrown from the ring it continued two against one until the fourth wrestler was able to return to the ring. The endinging will certainly sound familiar. One pair, each with an opponents head under his arm, rushed across the ring, the heads clashed together and the wrestlers were counted out.