During this Christmas Season done some more research into how Professional Wrestling was presented at the height of its popularity.In the TV Times of 11 March 1966 Jackie Pallo tells us he once has a period of three months when he was unable to walk as a result of a match. He went for four years without winning a match and was regularly smashed up in the ring.All a far cry from the contents of his autobiography twenty years latter.
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My research involves mainly viewing old publications with articles covering Professional Wrestling. The Jackie Pallo article leads me to consider how readers of the TV Times would react in 1966 when wrestling was at the height of its popularity. Surely fans attending regularly live matches would know most matches were not as brutal as he claimed. It may have put some readers taking the article at face value off attending live matches.
If he really did not get a fall for four years is this because he was not any good or because it is what the promoter wanted. If so why did he go from never winning a match to never loosing?
Don't have it to hand, but I think his book mentions getting a fall in his first match and then not getting another one for four years.
I remember reading Pallo saying this years back, I wonder if there was any truth in it. Tell us more about your research Peter.