First pro wrestling broadcast
 

I already googled it but I couldn't get a definite answer. I've seen some articles about Vince Sr broadcasting sold out MSG shows in the 50s and I'm sure there was NWA shows too. Does anyone know what is the first ever pro wrestling match broadcasted on TV?

1948-Portland, Oregon, promoter Don Owen’s cards are first aired on television.

(Portland Wrestling later known as Big TIme Wrestling)

http://www.pwi-online.com/pages/wrestlingframe.html

this is the earliest i can find

Portland Wrestling actually started around '52 or '53 in Portland, went regional for a few years, but never national. It ran for nearly 40 years in Portland, which is just crazy. Pacific Northwest Wrestling (PNW) had pretty much every wrestler that never won a major World Title perform in the territory over the years.

Hollywood Wrestling/Wrestling from Hollywood started airing in L.A. around '47 and went national in '52.

Big Time Wrestling was in Dallas, which evolved into World Class Championship Wrestling.

Kinda like when JCP used Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Wide Wrestling?

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Portland wrestling had been around since the Mid 20's.
True, but wrong Big TIme Wrestling.

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this match is from a 1950's telecast of Hollywood Wrestling

just to give you a glimpse of what their promotion looked like

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this tv match from Hollywood Wrestling features a young Nick Bockwinkel then called Nicky
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Awesome videos, Seth.

I was referring to the TV program

Wow, its crazy how far we've come. I started wondering this when I read that a young Harley Race was a driver/ assitant for the 800lb Happy Humpery. That's something Id want to see, Happy and Haystacks wrestling each other in that style back then. (I'm sure it would be a lot of shoving and headlocks but still...)

It's actually ridiculous how I can watch that 60 year old match and pick out concepts and spots from today. Other than being more flashy and faster, at their base, matches are still the same.

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I believe it was the 1932 broadcast for syndication of Juggalo Championshit Wrestling which saw a main event of ICP going over a -5 year old Stan Stasiak and Bruno Sammartino.

Oh I remember that. Good stuff.

Rasslin was first shown on the lookin box back in 1948

Have you seen Xero? He'll want the whole box.