World of Sport
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Oct 13, 2026
Oliver CollingHOST
Or alternatively, you can email me, Oliver@my70stvchildhood.com. Now, sometimes growing up in Britain during the 1970s could seem reassuringly innocent, particularly where television was concerned.
Oliver CollingHOST
We had children's programs after we got home from school, yeah, sitcoms in the evening, sport at the weekend with Grandstand and World of Sport, and the sort of familiar promise that the broadcasting would eventually close down for the night.
Oliver CollingHOST
Television set itself was like a piece of furniture, often had doors on the front, knobs, and a picture that needed a little encouragement sometimes to come on.
Oliver CollingHOST
Yet every so often, a drama slipped through that cozy routine and frightened us far more effectively than anything packed with blood, spectacle, or expensive effects.
Sha NazirGUEST
And Sky had the rights for WWE, which was like WWE superstars, which you would sometimes get on TV.
Sha NazirGUEST
Obviously prior to that, I'd been watching like Big Daddy and World of Sport and Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki and all of those boys.
Sha NazirGUEST
But when you started seeing the American stuff, just because of the color grain on the way it's filmed and everything, everything just looked a little bit more kind of brought up and polished.
Sha NazirGUEST
But Sky started having, had like a Saturday morning program called WWF Superstars, which got you the catch up.
AndyHOST
Tony Sinclair
SteveHOST
yeah yeah yeah I can always remember him from World of Sport
AndyHOST
yeah
SteveHOST
Chick Cullen a little bit like Ric Flair
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
If you can't play the position this way, I'll put somebody in there [laughs] that will play it that way," you know? "Here's how our offense runs," you know? So, um, but I also think that be- because, you know, I've always been a fan of international wrestling, I...
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
Norman Smiley turned me on to World of Sport way back when.
Dwayne SwayzeHOST
Yeah.
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
So I knew who Fit Finlay was a long time ago.
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
I knew Mark "Rollerball" Rocco, I knew Johnny Saint, you know, I knew these, these, I mean, uh...
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
Jushin "Thunder" Liger, I saw him bef- f- on tapes of World of Sport back when, I think they called him Yamada or something.
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
Like, he didn't even have the mask on yet, he was just jacked and had long hair.
Montel Vontavious PorterHOST
Um, and Japanese wrestling, I always loved it.
Nic PhillipsGUEST
No, I suppose three floors because of the studios being so tall.
Nic PhillipsGUEST
Uh, World of Sport was on the third floor, I think.
Nic PhillipsGUEST
And then, uh, from there on upwards, maybe there was some admin and stuff, accounts maybe.
Nic PhillipsGUEST
I think entertainment was on the, I can't remember if it was the eighth or the 10th floor.
Michael FoleyHOST
It was very exciting.
Michael FoleyHOST
Dickie Davis from ITV's World of Sport was there, Ciarán.
Michael FoleyHOST
They were filming.
Michael FoleyHOST
They did a piece for the...
Michael FoleyHOST
ITV's World of Sport the following week.
Michael FoleyHOST
Google it,
Ciaran O'HaraHOST
children.
Alan ForalGUEST
And then when UK wrestling enters the 90s, it's how can we be like American wrestling to the point that they were doing shows where it was fantastic.
Alan ForalGUEST
fake cane and fake road warriors and all this kind of stuff it became a parody and the and the british style of wrestling died and really did not come back until much later i went to the um wrestling channel international showdown show jesse in 2005 it's a really big deal um for all those uh smarks here in the uk in our late teens early 20s and the whole deal of this show was it was going to showcase all the different things that were on the wrestling channel so you had a noah match you had punk versus joe you had aj versus daniels super big show and um the irony is the most successful show on the wrestling channel was the World of Sport reruns they would run because they made a deal where they got all the old ITV tapes from ITV in some dusty library and they were able to air all of those and those shows smoked everything else on it because old guys were tuning in to watch the wrestling of their youth at two in the afternoon on a wednesday and not as many uh there's a lot more of them than there were us on a sunday evening wanting to watch the tpi 2004 supercard sunday that they put in the prime time slot so um On the Wrestling Channel International Showdown, they felt they needed to put a World of Sports Showcase match on, so they had a couple of the guys that could still pretty much go, and they had them go out there and do a match.
Alan ForalGUEST
And the 3,000 people in the Coventry Sky Dome, I don't want to say they booed them out of the building, but they were... not into that match to say the least.
Alan ForalGUEST
And it was not given a good reception.
Alan BoonGUEST
And then when UK wrestling enters the 90s, it's how can we be like American wrestling to the point that they were doing shows where it was fantastic.
Alan BoonGUEST
fake cane and fake road warriors and all this kind of stuff it became a parry and the and the british style of wrestling died and really did not come back until much later i went to the um wrestling channel international showdown show jesse in 2005 it's a really big deal um for all those uh smarks here in the uk in our late teens early 20s and the whole deal of this show was it was going to showcase all the different things that were on the wrestling channel so you had a noah match you had punk versus joe you had aj versus daniels super big show and um the irony is the most successful show on the wrestling channel was the World of Sport reruns they would run because they made a deal where they got all the old ITV tapes from ITV in some dusty library and they were able to air all of those and those shows smoked everything else on it because old guys were tuning in to watch the wrestling of their youth at two in the afternoon on a wednesday and not as many uh there was a lot more of them than there were us on a sunday evening wanting to watch the tpi 2004 supercard sunday that they put in the prime time slot so um On the Wrestling Channel International Showdown, they felt they needed to put a World of Sports Showcase match on, so they had a couple of the guys that could still pretty much go, and they had them go out there and do a match.
Alan BoonGUEST
And the 3,000 people in the Coventry Sky Dome, I don't want to say they booed them out of the building, but they were... not into that match to say the least.
Alan BoonGUEST
And it was not given a good reception.
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And of course, Zack Sabre Jr. loves to target the arm.
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Always paying homage to Jim Brakes of World of Sport fame.
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've seen him with the ode to Jim Brakes, the Jim Brakes arm bar.
Daniel BryanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, he is very proud of his British heritage.
51 MINS LATER
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ladies
Mike RomeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
and gentlemen, your winner by submission, who's moving on to the finals of the Cruiserweight Classic, TJ Perkins.
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It may not be Buster Douglas, Mike Tyson, or Roland Gardner, Alexander Carlin, but this result will send shockwaves throughout the world of sports entertainment.
Mauro RanalloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When T.J. Perkins was 13 years of age, I'm sure he visualized and dreamed of nights like this.
Greg LambertHOST
And the biggest thing, one of the biggest things I find with watching a wrestling show, and we'll talk about this a little bit on this episode, is that I feel that promoters, people who are organising wrestling shows, should always have one eye on the fact they've got new... audience and new viewers tuning in all the time who've never seen the product before yeah so it's always good to try and you know tailor things accordingly to let people know about stuff they need to know about that they may not be aware of so we need to tell people why we do this podcast again do go on you do it
Silent MarkHOST
um more commit so we're both wrestling fans we both you know adore wrestling Morecambe, where we live, has such a huge lineage of amazing, not just homegrown talent, but the shows that we've put on and the history that we've got here from the World of Sport days all the way up until now, we're still going strong.
Silent MarkHOST
Morecambe's always had a history of wrestling.
Silent MarkHOST
And that's what we're here to do.
Silent MarkHOST
going very, very strong.
Greg LambertHOST
But we talk about some great eras of wrestling.
Greg LambertHOST
We recently, on episode 51, looked back at the ITV World of Sport era.
Greg LambertHOST
We did.
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