He was largely finished by this point and being kept in the ring under emotional pressure by Max. He knew a fair bit about how to use his strength in a shoot - check out his 1977 match with John Elijah, that's a good indication of what his legit abilities and limitations were. Also Greg Dyke would have cancelled wrestling regardless to please snobby American advertising execs. WCW being moved to Sat afternoons in 1992 was ITV's way of sheepishly uncancelling the wrestling. If the Sky WWF boom had already started by 1988 or if the contract ran on into 1989 then Dyke would have been unable to cancel the wrestling and then who knows perhaps it would have carried on ITV for decades more with people like James Mason and Dean Allmark becoming household names.

incidentally this is after the end of regular ITV British wrestling, this is a special 1990 taping for Grampian and STV. So British wrestling lived on after the cancellation - it still exists to this day.

Careful what you say about Jane, she's a great lady with a heart of gold.

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And meant to be! It was never sport - just entertainment. If you believe otherwise, and are critical, then you have a few screws loose!

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Most adult fans and most wrestlers had long ago defected to All Star because they were all fed up with Big Daddy and wanted something more grown up. Something like Kendo Nagasaki vs Rollerball Rocco with blood and crowd riots as part of the package.