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April 28, 2018 6:52 AM Subscribe
For over twenty years of Saturday tea times in the UK, World Of Sport Wrestling on ITV was essential viewing for grapple fans until interest in the British version of the sport waned and it was taken off the air... but interest in UK wrestling has grown in recent years and now World Of Sport Wrestling is back!
Yield! The heyday of British wrestling – in pictures
Masters Of The Canvas - documentary about the wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and the artist Peter Blake (IPlayer, youtube region locked)
World of Sport: The Best Of ITV Wrestling
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks
Big Daddy vs Kendo Nagasaki
ITV World of Sport Wrestling - The Final Bell (Last Broadcast 1988)
Insane Fight Club
The British Wrestler
Yield! The heyday of British wrestling – in pictures
Masters Of The Canvas - documentary about the wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and the artist Peter Blake (IPlayer, youtube region locked)
World of Sport: The Best Of ITV Wrestling
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks
Big Daddy vs Kendo Nagasaki
ITV World of Sport Wrestling - The Final Bell (Last Broadcast 1988)
Insane Fight Club
The British Wrestler
WWE Is In A Fight To Control The Future Of British Wrestling is a good roll-up for Americans.
posted by Etrigan at 8:51 AM on April 28, 2018
posted by Etrigan at 8:51 AM on April 28, 2018
I went to see an ICW bout in Edinburgh a couple of years back - most fun I've had in an evening in a very, very long time!
posted by sarahdal at 9:59 AM on April 28, 2018
posted by sarahdal at 9:59 AM on April 28, 2018
..but of course nothing holds a candle to a proper Cumberland Wrestling Match, embroidered velvet shorts and all
posted by sarahdal at 10:01 AM on April 28, 2018
posted by sarahdal at 10:01 AM on April 28, 2018
My dad used to use the timing of WoSW so he could get some gardening in on a saturday afternoon, then collapse in front of the TV for the wrestling with a beer glass full of hot orange squash. Sunday afternoon gardening was timed for Ski Sunday, but only to watch the crashes.
posted by scruss at 10:57 AM on April 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by scruss at 10:57 AM on April 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
GORDON SOLIE, YOU BETTER BELIEVE I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THIS POST AT THE MARIETTA CIVIC CENTER ON SUNDAY!!!!
posted by not_on_display at 6:43 PM on April 28, 2018
posted by not_on_display at 6:43 PM on April 28, 2018
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