World of Sport (UK TV programme) 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 broadcast English top-flight football. From 1985, "Wrestling" with Kent Walton would follow immediately after "Saint & Greavsie", before being dropped in December 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.
Gerald Williams (tennis commentator) Gerald Williams (tennis commentator) Gerald Williams (24 June 1929 – 21 January 2016) was a British tennis commentator and journalist. Williams wrote for the "Croydon Advertiser" and the "Daily Mail". Williams presented the nightly round-up of Wimbledon coverage on BBC television for ten years with Des Lynam. Williams was born in Surrey and would spend his teenage years in Llangynog in Carmarthenshire and Croydon in south London. Williams studied at Carmarthen Grammar School and would join the "Croydon Advertiser" after school, becoming the sports editor of the newspaper after a few years. Williams would subsequently work join the "Daily Mail"