in the good old day before High Definition Colour TV we used to watch wrestling in black & white in low res, not helped by recording being films. then came colour which could be a bit hairy. the television sets would be set up with to much colour and the cathode guns out on alignment, let alone some of studio cameras could drift, especially the valve ones. all this often produced an image which was soft and hide what what was really happening
how many of the school would have be able to adapt to modern TV with its extra definition and you could see what was really happening, like blows not landing etc. could they have survived
I have to disagree that workers appearing in the early days of TV would have to adapt and be more careful over certain moves,but I would say that wouldn't I.Well it wasn't my ear,but what I knew of those workers if anything they were told to tone down and I know from several they started bothering about their appearance.This was an era when lads went in hard and no I'm not trying to fool anyone but it was a harder game to get into and stay in.Most of the guys were of the Alan Woods mould a wrestler greatly underrated I watched from the back at wolves when he tore apart a lad called Eric his chest was turning purple when he returned to the dressing room and this poor sod was a neighbour of Alan.Whilst I get the comments about Two Rivers and Johnny Yearsley that was due to the promoters and Two Rivers who was lazy not Johnny Yearsley.In full glorious colour in the 80s we had somersaults from no contact back of the head slaps dropkicks not in the same county as their target and some superb lads underused by megalomaniac mismanagement. rant over.