Friday, July 28, 2006

Even more wrestling on UK TV

Now, we are very lucky to have The Wrestling Channel on Sky. Well now we have a bonus show on the generally wonderful ESPN Gold (442 on Sky). They have started showing Waddell's Wrestling show. This is presented by the genius advocat and commentator of the underappreciated sports, Sid Waddell. They seem to be showing two decent old school wrestling matches from the World of Sport days, and being fairly respectful about it. Last night I saw Sammy Lee competing in a fight in the early 80s. I remembered about halfway through that he was familiar, and suddenly realised it was Jushin Liger, wrestling utterly ungimmicked and unmasked. There used to be a fine tradition of sending young Japanese wrestling talent to Britain to literally learn the ropes. Well worth a look.

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