After World of Sport Ended
A spin-off programme Saint and Greavsie, featuring Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves, featuring football news, action and live chat was introduced by ITV on Saturday lunchtimes from 1985 to replace the On The Ball segment of World of Sport, enjoying a successful run that ended in 1992 when Sky Sports gained exclusive rights to broadcasting English football.
From 1985, Wrestling with Kent Walton would follow immediately after Saint & Greavsie, before being dropped in late 1988, only shortly prior to the popularity of the US World Wrestling Federation promotion (now World Wrestling Entertainment) gaining momentum in the UK in that era via coverage on Sky Television plc from early 1989. During 1992-1995, several ITV regions screened rival US promotion World Championship Wrestling's programme WCW Worldwide in the old Saturday afternoon slot, having previously transmitted the promotion as late night viewing. In the mid 2000s, The Wrestling Channel, later The Fight Network, purchased the broadcasting rights to World of Sport's wrestling shows until the channel stopped transmitting. It is now shown on UK satellite channel Men and Movies.
The Results Service also continued to run as a standalone programme in its own right from 1985, presented generally by Elton Welsby, but was dropped in May 1992 and added to the ITN Evening News bulletins on Saturdays from the start of the 1992/93 season. Bob Colston nevertheless continued to read the results in the ITN bulletins until defecting to Sky Sports at the end of the 1995/96 season.
Live coverage of sports such as athletics, ice skating and snooker also continued to play a part in the Saturday afternoon schedule on ITV for a time, but gradually diminshed after a few years.
ITV paid tribute to World of Sport as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations in September 2005.
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