World of Sport Wrestling World of Sport Wrestling World of Sport Wrestling (frequently shortened to WOS Wrestling) is a British professional wrestling television series and occasional promotion. It is promoted as a relaunch of the popular wrestling segment of the "World of Sport" sports programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985. The present programme was launched on New Year's Eve 2016. It was formerly associated with the United States-based promotion, Impact Wrestling. A nine date live tour of the show's stars has been announced for January/February 2019. ITV transmitted British professional wrestling for over 33 years from November
Associated Television awarded the franchise to provide a seven-day Independent Television service for the Midlands region which started on Tuesday, 30 July 1968 and was finally extended until 00:34 on Friday, 1 January 1982. The company was formed from the merger of the "Associated Broadcasting Development Company" (ABDC) under the control of Norman Collins, and the "Incorporated Television Programme Company" (ITC) under the control of Prince Littler and Lew Grade, two showbusiness agents. Both companies had applied for a contract to become one of the new ITV stations. ABDC won the contract but had insufficient money to operate it; ITC failed to