The World Of Sport Legacy | Cultaholic Podcast Special
Cultaholic Wrestling
Cultaholic
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Tom Campbell, with the help of author John Lister, presents a special look at World Of Sport Wrestling and the birth of British Wrestling. Featuring profiles of some of World Of Sport's biggest stars - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Les Kellett, Kendo Nagasaki and Mick McManus.
SPECIAL THANKS
John Lister: Author of "Have A Good Week Till Next Week" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Lister/e/B002BLW7GG)
Harvey Auzorst: Writter of Kellett: The Movie (http://www.twitter.com/KellettFilm)
All World Of Sport audio is (c) ITV and WOS Wrestling.
"Loss Ness Interview" (c) World Wrestling Entertainment
"Baby I Need You" by Giant Haystacks (c) Rock City Studios
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
| 0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
| 0:15.0 | there, |
| 0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travels should feel, |
| 0:22.0 | and on our trains it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. The final show-down show-down |
| 0:35.0 | now, big daddy on the left. |
| 0:37.0 | And there is a final show-down, |
| 0:41.0 | there is a final hand-tout. January 2nd, 1965, an off to overlook a day of |
| 0:45.0 | a great importance, an off to overlook day of great importance |
| 0:51.0 | in professional wrestling. |
| 0:52.4 | It was on this day, just after lunchtime, |
| 0:55.3 | that households across the United Kingdom |
| 0:57.5 | put Channel 3 on and watch the first episode of World of Sports. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to I. World of Sports. Welcome to I TV's World of Sports with me, Dickie Davis. |
| 1:05.0 | Tonight we bring you a very suitable gold miner material. |
| 1:08.0 | World of Sport offered five hours of global sporting coverage, football, horse racing, NASCAR racing, |
| 1:14.4 | Temptin bowling, Speedway, hockey, even the world barrel jumping |
| 1:19.6 | championships got a look in. |
| 1:20.9 | It was through World of Sports that we in the UK got our first |
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