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The World Of Sport presents: The Best Of ITV Wresting DVD
by Kam on 23 April 2005 2:59 pm

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The World Of Sport presents: The Best Of ITV Wresting

Release Date: 6th June 2005
RRP: £15.99
Format: DVD
Running Time: 90 mins approx
Certificate: tbc

Turn back the clock to the 1970’s when Saturday afternoon meant one thing and that was Wrestling. With the chants of “Easy, easy” and commentary by an over excited Kent Walton, this was British sport at is best (or worse). Now for the first time on DVD the heady mixture of bizarrely named characters watched by a hysterical , audience of handbag yielding beer swigging grannies in local town halls the length and breadth of the UK, is captured in 90 minutes of non stop action.

Presented by Dickie Davies , ITV’s World of Sport’s long running presenter (1965 – 1985) the DVD features an array of familiar names and bouts. Wrestlers such as Big Daddy (real name Shirley Crabtree) who bounced off his stomach his long time enemy Giant Haystacks who at 6ft 11inches tall and 45 stone was not most peoples idea of an athlete. The masked man of mystery Kendo Nagasaki, a trained samurai who would stalk the ring brandishing a sword and enact an ancient ceremony that the audience booed at.

A combination of pantomime and farce with heroes and villains enthralled the nation for over a decade with a regular tv audience of over 10 million. The DVD includes all the classic bouts including the final grudge match between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, the unmasking of Kendo and much more. Tag team action from the man in the big black pants (and hair to match) Mick McManus and Steve Logan versus Kendo and Gorgeous George and the late Pat Roach who went onto star in TV’s Auf Weidersehen Pet and Leon Arras (the great late actor Brian Glover) plus Jackie Pallo the pony tailed hero the girls loved to hate.

The DVD extras include more tag team action plus Jimmy Saville relives his time as a wrestler plus a featurette on the wrestlers views on Les Kellett, the hardest man in wrestling and Ricky Starr the ballerina wrestler.

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 ST: Do not talk to me about fake
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There’s a saying in wrestling. The person who says that wrestling is fake knows nothing about wrestling at all. Say fake to people like Chris Benoit whose “fake” concussions turned him insane, say fake to Sid whose leg broke in half after the merest of falls, say fake to every single wrestler who has been through agony [...]
 ST: What does TV do for the UK Scene?
By Saz on 27 November 2007
Being a professional wrestler can be such an enjoyable experience, yet, sometimes such a frustrating one. There is that old school opinion that wrestling is built from respect and that your time and your actions deserve the opportunities that you get. I know my place in the scheme of things, I have my rung on the [...]
 ST: Time to get the attitude right
By Saz on 22 September 2007
You know, when I came back from Spain, a few things dawned on me. The first being how stuck up our own arses we Brits are. Bear with me on this, I am going somewhere with this.
 ST: Viva l?Espania!
By Saz on 18 August 2007
Howdo, Your friendly neighbourhood Saz here, coming to you live from Tarragona, that would be on the South coast of Spain for all you non geography types. Yup, ole Sazza is sitting here supping Cevesa enjoying the sand, sea, sun, sangria and senoritas!
 ST: More wrestler ramblings
By Saz on 22 July 2007
I mentioned in the UK scene that I think that British wrestling is beginning to carve out a niche of its own, separate to the direct influence of the Americans. There will always be influence of course, that can’t be denied a good idea that works should always be used and the great thing about the [...]

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