The likes of King Barrett and Neville are impressing in the WWE right now but the history of British wrestling goes back much further than the occasional breakthroughs in Connecticut.
Audiences of 18 million people watched World of Sport at its peak and enjoyed some of the most fascinating characters in the history of the sport.
Perhaps the most remarkable was Les Kellett. "He was never the top man, but he was always the one people talked about and the one people wanted to see," screenwriter and director Harvey Auzorst tells us, explaining how his film Kellett came to be in development.
Impressed by the script for Auzorst's Blackpool-based Rat Pack Sands, wrestling legend and current Nxt general manager William Regal vouched for Auzorst among the famously close-knit British wrestling community.
The former Blue Blood put him in touch with his one-time tag partner Dave Taylor, which opened the door to...
Audiences of 18 million people watched World of Sport at its peak and enjoyed some of the most fascinating characters in the history of the sport.
Perhaps the most remarkable was Les Kellett. "He was never the top man, but he was always the one people talked about and the one people wanted to see," screenwriter and director Harvey Auzorst tells us, explaining how his film Kellett came to be in development.
Impressed by the script for Auzorst's Blackpool-based Rat Pack Sands, wrestling legend and current Nxt general manager William Regal vouched for Auzorst among the famously close-knit British wrestling community.
The former Blue Blood put him in touch with his one-time tag partner Dave Taylor, which opened the door to...
- 5/29/2015
- Digital Spy
Ever switched over to ITV on a Friday or Saturday night and bemoaned the fact there’s never anything good on? Perhaps the time is right to bring back our homegrown wrestling! Those of a certain generation will most likely remember ‘World Of Sport’ with a sense of misty-eyed fondness.
Yes, at times it was ridiculous – frequently so in fact- but it was popular as a glance at any retrospective on the subject will tell you. Even BBC Four was compelled to offer an hour-long look back at it as part of its ‘Timeshift’ series, and if the supposed bastion of the country’s art and culture broadcasting output says it’s alright then we’re not going to argue.
‘When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts And Grannies’ really did make a compelling case for bringing back homegrown headlocks and truly British bulldogs. If you haven’t had the pleasure...
Yes, at times it was ridiculous – frequently so in fact- but it was popular as a glance at any retrospective on the subject will tell you. Even BBC Four was compelled to offer an hour-long look back at it as part of its ‘Timeshift’ series, and if the supposed bastion of the country’s art and culture broadcasting output says it’s alright then we’re not going to argue.
‘When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts And Grannies’ really did make a compelling case for bringing back homegrown headlocks and truly British bulldogs. If you haven’t had the pleasure...
- 12/11/2013
- by Chris Morley
- Obsessed with Film
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