How much Dallas-Fort Worth wrestling footage (from WCCW or earlier periods) still exists?
Answering this question in detail requires a bit of historical background, which was provided by wrestling historian Kit Bauman in a thread at Wrestling Classics. Bauman relates a story, told by Lou Thesz, of an exceedingly rare instance of wrestlers banding together to protect their interests: …It was in late 1952, in Texas, and it had to do with getting paid for appearing in matches that were televised on “Texas Rasslin,” Dallas promoter Ed McLemore’s TV show, which ran in the Dallas market the state and was also syndicated nationally. The thinking among the wrestlers was that TV was hurting gate receipts, and, by extension, their payoffs; if their matches were going to be televised, they wanted extra money. McLemore and Morris Sigel, who ran the Houston office and provided the talent for the Texas circuit, refused. In November, some of the wrestlers who were booked on a card in San Antonio refused to enter the ring unless the TV cameras were turned off. The promoter, Frank Brown,
