BBC television broadcast their first wrestling match, they called it catch-as-catch-can on 12th March, 1938, describing it as a form of fighting mid-way in violence between all-in wrestling and ju-jitsu.
The exhibition match was between the Canadian Earl McCready and the South African Percy Foster. For the record the commentator was Emil Voight, who had competed in the 1904 Olympics as an athlete and some four years earlier had authored "Modern Wrestling Holds." The referee of the contest was K.J. Staunton. Voight and Staunton were to become regular officials of the BBC contests.
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Each of the four main bouts must have been performed scores of times down the years. My estimate:
Logan v Royal: twice monthly at least over 27 years = 729.
Faulkner v Saint: same over 20 years = 480
Marino v Bruno: same over ten years = 240
Tag over two years but once or twice weekly = 150
We'll never know precisely but the figures are something like this.
When you think of a theatre run where the cast are word perfect after a week and have a run of maybe 50 or 100 performances ... how smoothly did these guys work together!