In one of the earliest Sunday newspaper investigations into the legitimacy of professional wrestling the Sunday Dispatch reporter Jacqueline Mackenzie asked "Is wrestling fake?" As would be expected she found it hard to get a straight answer. There was an admission that not everything was genuine. Francis St Clair Gregory told of the time he had been reprimanded by a referee in Belgium for grimacing as if he was in pain when his opponent got a hold on him. One man did talk. He was former boxer and wrestler Jack Doyle. Doyle told the reporter that the result of all his wrestling matches were pre-planned and explained how blood could be produced on demand. By the end of the piece the reporter did have a grudging admiration for the men she had met.
02 December 1956
In one of the earliest Sunday newspaper investigations into the legitimacy of professional wrestling the Sunday Dispatch reporter Jacqueline Mackenzie asked "Is wrestling fake?" As would be expected she found it hard to get a straight answer. There was an admission that not everything was genuine. Francis St Clair Gregory told of the time he had been reprimanded by a referee in Belgium for grimacing as if he was in pain when his opponent got a hold on him. One man did talk. He was former boxer and wrestler Jack Doyle. Doyle told the reporter that the result of all his wrestling matches were pre-planned and explained how blood could be produced on demand. By the end of the piece the reporter did have a grudging admiration for the men she had met.