London Bans Wrestling, Sort of

Read in many places about British wrestling in the 1930s and you read it was a sort of wild west place where anything was allowed. Now I'm not going to defend the mud wrestling or any other dodgy goings on but I do believe it was always very convenient for post war promoters to knock what went on in the 1930s. It helped persuade us that they were presenting a new, improved product. Many observers tell us 1930s wrestling was so dastardly that it was banned in London at the end of the 1930s. Now is an an appropriate moment to remind our more balanced Talk Wrestling readers that the London ban of wrestling only came into effect eighty years ago, on 1st January, 1945. A ban that had minimal impact and was only a year before the introduction of the Lord Mountevans rules.