Just wondering why Paul Lincoln Management did not become a seperate member of Joint like the other members.I am assuming,if Iv'e got this right,that it was a merger with DM Proms.Had he had enough of the headache of promoting?Or maybe it was just less hassle and more lucrative to become a Director.Your thoughts please.
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It's the title of the topic I was referring to. Nothing personal, of course. Just if the start talking about THE merger it becomes fact.
But we're just not sure what went on. Or are we?
True Anglo Italian. I accept my reprimand for sloppy language.
We need to be careful before enshrining the word "merger" as history.
Other possibilities are that Dale Martin bought PL out; or ran them into failure through underhanded business tactics.
As I've mentioned before the original Paul Limcoln Management ended at the end of 1965 with a new company Paul Lincoln Promotions set up straight away, with members of the Dale Martin and Paul Lincoln amongst the Directors. So it seemed a Lincoln sell out with a place on the board for Lincoln, but not of the whole Dale Martin company. Paul Lincoln Promotions from then on seemed to be run as a brand with it's own identity within the Dale Martin company.
For me, a Holy Grail of wrestling on TV is the moment where the Lincoln guys came back and made a challenge.
Or a mixture of both?
As the Men in Suits article points out:
"So great a threat was Lincoln to the Joint Promotions business that it became inevitable his company would one day be swallowed up. We can find no documented evidence of how this actually came about, and wrestlers involved at the time provide conflicting evidence."
That says it all. The fact that it was such a major event yet all these years later, still no one knows what actually happened! I've loved Pro wrestling since I was in my early teens and it was many years later when I realised that I had to accept that what I was watching wasn't a sport, but an entertainment...