MurielHorseflesh t1_j97xvfk wrote on February 19, 2023 at 11:04 PM

Dickie Davies’ World of Sport was the home of professional wrestling on UK TV back in the 70’s and 80’s. The show would report on real sports like Football, Rugby, Cricket, Golf, Formula 1 etc and then would also have a section for professional wrestling but this was the 70’s and no one knew wrestling was fake so it was presented and reported on as a real sport right next to the others.

They would show UK wrestling with famous names like Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks until the appeal of UK wrestling started to wane and they began to show WWF matches.

The first time I ever saw Hulk Hogan was on a match aired on Dickie Davies’ World of Sport.

LolkekLolkek t1_j98z5br wrote on February 20, 2023 at 4:04 AM

>but this was the 70’s and no one knew wrestling was fake so it was presented and reported on as a real sport right next to the others

you what? Newspapers were printing articles about wrestling being fake (at least) as early as the 1910s lol

MurielHorseflesh t1_j9a1hp2 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 11:57 AM

So? Not in the UK on British tv they weren’t. What an idiotic comment