The characters that loomed largest were Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, the pantomime good and evil of the wrestling scene. The grudge match playing out beyond the ring on Saturday morning kids shows, Saturday night family entertainment programmes and mid-week chat shows.
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Other notable players were Kendo Nagasaki a masked enigma who channelled an ancient Samurai and used supernatural powers to bamboozle his opponents, Brian Glover, Cat Weazle who, long before the glamour of snakes in WWF, licked a lucky toad between rounds, and Pat Roach.
Due to the changing landscape of UK sports broadcasting, World Of Sport was cancelled in 1985, this allowed wrestling to have it’s own weekly show to entertain the family. However, with the advent of WWF, the programme was axed in December 1988.
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