Would you still have attended wrestling if every bout on the bill was clean,technical and scientific?

The answer to the question is a definite no. I enjoyed the fun of the good uns and bad uns. But I did enjoy the gritty wrestlers that could work within the rules, were skilfull and technical but no do gooders. I'm talking the likes of Wall, Davies, Dempsey, Howes. You would think Colbeck would fit in that list, but I found him boring.

Here is a shoot:

Here is (what is widely believed to have been) another shoot (triggered by Stecher's mental health issues):

Try them and see what you think. They ARE a lot more fun than the Olympics as there are submissions and more sophisticated ("professional") technique.

My roots as a fan go back to a great uncle who was a shooter in the gyms of Edwardian London, so I think my grandparents would have seen to it that I was a fan of wrestling in such an alternative universe - even one in which wrestling was a shoot and there was a real demand for catch wrestling as a legit sport. I do hold that being able to make it through a 180m VHS tape compilation of clean wrestling is the mark of a true Traditional British Wrestling fan.

As a young fan I prefered the "clean/scientific" bouts because not only did I believe that it was all real, I wanted it to be. Most fans, just like most members here, were happy to just have a fun night out. I must have been a boring kid. Later I came to appreciate the physical and theatrical skill of people like Street and the special skill of working a crowd. Even now I like to think of the professional game as an exhibition of real wrestling. I really enjoyed watching UWF when it was shown on TV over here. And yes, I went to the wrestling at the 2012 Olympics and thought it was a cracking day out. Horses for courses.

For me the preference was Adrian. He had the act perfectly and the hall loathed him. And he played them to the nth. Homophobia was rampant and Adrian knocked it exactly where it should be.

Otherwise I agree that a variety was needed. I loved Jackie Pallo, found Kellett boring, Kwango the same, Loved Torontos. Logan and Maxine were very good villains. Gordienko was the best heavyweight i ever saw. Ian Campbell was very entertaining.

I went to the Olympic wrestling in 1972. Yes, far too tactical and very boring.

Olympic wrestling is considered clean technical and very scientific, so scientific that my brain cannot digest it, it is also pretty darn boring, I meant to say "tactical", isn't it. so yeah, my answer is - never in a million years.

An evening of technical wrestling was always better than an evening of often repeated stale matches

You needed variety on the bill otherwise people would soon get bored and think of better ways to spend a night out.

Going to the wrestling was a fun night out. Cheering the good guy and feeling happy when he won. Booing the bad guy and feeling unhappy when he won. A good clean bout was ok. But I think a lot of wrestlers would be incapable of putting on an entertaining clean bout.