Just wondering is there a list anywhere of tag-teams from British Wrestling from the 70s and 80s ? I have had alook around and can't find anything other that going by wrestler or match-by-match.
I greatly admire your stout defence of the integrity of professional wrestling, Peter.
In a debate we had about 15 years ago regarding 1960s grunt and groan, I asked about the ethics and morals of professional wrestling, precisely with a religious slant, in relation to the Reverend Michael Brookes (once I had been persuaded he was a legitimate man of the cloth.)
The fact is that wrestlers, then, were involved in duping the fans into believing what they saw was real. Just how serious was the duping then? All good fun? True deceit? A blurred area.
I recall so many wrestlers simply unable to discuss the business because they just didn't have the words to carry off the deception. A few actors like McManus and Roach and Bartelli dared publicly, but most remained largely silent or, at best, grunting like Masambula or Tornado Torontos.
Magicians also lie and cheat, and there'd be no moral blur with them.
It's what continues to fascinate me - the magical aspects of how our wrestlers carried it all off, before our very eyes.
Those without our advanced perception of the business, outsiders, religious groups, here Jehovah's Witnesses, may well have perceived wrestling as phoney, deceitful, immoral - to be abhorred.
I greatly admire your stout defence of the integrity of professional wrestling, Peter.
In a debate we had about 15 years ago regarding 1960s grunt and groan, I asked about the ethics and morals of professional wrestling, precisely with a religious slant, in relation to the Reverend Michael Brookes (once I had been persuaded he was a legitimate man of the cloth.)
The fact is that wrestlers, then, were involved in duping the fans into believing what they saw was real. Just how serious was the duping then? All good fun? True deceit? A blurred area.
I recall so many wrestlers simply unable to discuss the business because they just didn't have the words to carry off the deception. A few actors like McManus and Roach and Bartelli dared publicly, but most remained largely silent or, at best, grunting like Masambula or Tornado Torontos.
Magicians also lie and cheat, and there'd be no moral blur with them.
It's what continues to fascinate me - the magical aspects of how our wrestlers carried it all off, before our very eyes.
Those without our advanced perception of the business, outsiders, religious groups, here Jehovah's Witnesses, may well have perceived wrestling as phoney, deceitful, immoral - to be abhorred.