10:20am Wednesday 8th July 2009
I USED to enjoy watching the wrestling on TV’s World of Sport every Saturday afternoon when I was a youngster.
There was nothing better than watching stars such as Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki staging mock battles in the ring before the legend that is Dickie Davies told us that it was time for the football results.
British wrestling, particularly in the Eighties, was quite a phenomenon on a Saturday afternoon, and I remember the laughs my Dad and I had watching it after we ate our weekly serving of egg and chips.
Wrestling is now big business in the US, but over here it seems to have disappeared. There is more chance of seeing Scottish tennis star Andy Murray having a laughing fit than wrestling becoming a televised British institution once again, but memories of the Boston crab stronghold shall live on.
Christopher Wardell, Darlington.
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