same here? Saturday afternoon at 4 was in front of the tv watching wrestling and the footie results popping up. Cry baby jim breaks was my favourite. wrestler, Good heel ,He knew how to work the crowd.. I heard he killed his girlfriend in spain a couple of years ago. Anyway good childhood memories with my late old man and my brothers Dads been gone since 99. 🙏🏻 Still missed by us
@@stephenm6100 I'd heard that about Jim Breaks as well but can't find anything about it....Him and Kung Fu were epic bouts... Dynamite Kid was a beast as well.
Met Haystacks in Germany when on Wrestling Tour with Tony St Clair...never met anyone as big since....came to our Cookhouse and ate 6 full dinners and a Cheeseboard selection...was a very nice,pleasant and quiet man.
Dave Finlay was a very talented Wrestler, great technical ability. I don't know much about his career in the states but I hope he made good money out there.
mrKkarrma Awwww no, I didnae know he passed away, a cool guy he was too, my sympathies to his family :'( I would put a thumb up, but in this case it's thumbs down, not only was he loved in Perth but the whole of Scotland loved him, R.I.P. big fella...
4pm on Saturday afternoons, used to watch it with my dad, now those good old days are gone, Big Daddy gone, Giant Haystacks gone, and even my dad passed away in 1991, certainly the 70's and 80's was a great time to grow up in, not like today, what do we have to look forward to now? ...cooking programmes on Saturday mornings, and the dreadful X factor.
My mum did baking on Saturday afternoons and just hearing Ken Walton's commentary takes me right back to when I was 6 years old - mum died when I was 8.
It's such a shame that we didn't get the proper wrestling backstories that were being used in the States at this time...I loved my Saturday afternoon wrestling as a kid...but the Promos and gimmicks of, say Memphis wrestling at this time (with about 10% of the audience of World of Sport!...)well, it would have made this heaven...
Big Daddy was one of the wrestlers who helped to destroy British television wrestling. In a tag match, it was always the same. The co-wrestler in Daddy`s corner, got battered while Big Daddy stayed outside the ropes and joined the bout for the last minute or so, to win the match. He actually worked for only about three or four minutes in total, with a break part way through.
He scripted all his bouts with his money grabbing family. Haystacks was never allowed to get the better of him, usually racing out of the ring after 30 seconds with Daddy, like he was petrified when in reality, he could have knocked Big Daddy into next week
Great Camera work on introducing Fit Finlay at 1:08 ! Those MC's in the 70's and 80's could kill any build up and anticipation stone dead. They were really useless. I love watching them now, dressed up in a hire suit from Burtons, waving the programme which helps them remember the names...it's a curious anomaly of British Wrestling that the bouts opened this way for so long.
Great memories. Haystacks was always ranting about how good he was-though was skillfull at avoiding Big Daddy in tag contests-as for Fit Finlay-he was another who you loved to hate, especially when his wife-the lovely(!!) Princess Paula-as foul as a box of frogs started mouthing off. Brilliant stuff
Eez-eh, Eez-eh, Eez-eh, big daddy was my first hero as a kid, used to go watch the wrestling on a Thursday night at the end of the pier at Morecambe, before it was burned down, great memories ✌️😎.
I remember watching this at the time but I couldn't remember how it ended. Thanks for uploading. Drew McDonald as a goodie didn't last. This must be one of Giant Haystacks' last splashes. I assume he was too heavy to do them without injuring people.
Great memories. All showmanship but who cared? Haystacks was always good for a rant and Daddy was the greatest. Fit Finlay ended up in the States. Well remember that old boot of of a wife Princess Paula-half Cherokee but all mouth with her feathered headdress and ready slaps when Finlay was losing. What a pairing!
We saw Finley’s class as a wrestler here - he was more athletic, quicker, technically superior and a great bumper - it’s no surprise that he had the most lucrative career of all 4 of these guys
Finlay by no metric had a more successful career (including money when inflation is taken into account). He was a decent journeyman with midcard runs in the US (WCW and WWE) and obviously a brilliant wrestler. But he is not woven into the fabric of a nation's culture. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are iconic and will be names that crop up for many years past our own time. Wrestling in America is not the be all and end all. Especially back when World of Sport was watched by millions every Saturday here in the UK. How many buildings did Finlay sell out? None, no one paid to see Finlay... Everyone on the British circuit paid and watched TV to see Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. Even Finlay would tell you these facts, they were the marquee names he never was.
This is the Best quality wrestling. So much better than the American junk we have to put up with now. Someone thinks that some of the U.S. Wrestlers (Bill Goldberg was mentioned.) Could tear apart the World Of Sports stars. Does anyone else disagree with that? Could Bill Golberg take Big Daddy and Haystacks out? Drop comment to let me know
Interesting you mentioned Goldberg. There was an incident a few years back when he was paired with Blackpool's very own William Regal who used to wrestle on World Of Sport when younger. Although he had been told to lose the match, Regal decided to have some fun first. He put Goldberg (who was being heavily-promoted at the time) in all sorts of armlocks and you could tell the American was shit worried as he didn't have a clue how to get out of them.
Horses for courses. Daddy and haystacks wrestled that way because it suited their size and characters, you couldn't have a 40 stone man doing top rope moves!
All gone now, including Paula and the ref - apart from Finlay. MCDonald playing Mr. Nice Guy? Surely not? Yet another tag bout not reaching 10 minutes!
Shall I tell you the shame of this all? Haystacks was a much nicer man in reality, to Big Daddy. Daddy was a self absorbed money grabbing cretin who literally wrote the script for these bouts (Big Daddy & partner go a fall down after partner gets battered and then in pantomime style, makes it back to tag Daddy who gets the equalising fall and then the opponents refuse to fight on) With his brother referring, they literally ran wrestling! It's a shame Haystacks' pathetic script wasn't torn up and he be allowed to be the good guy for once..I hated Daddy and his pathetic acting with a passion
"This was several years before Dave" Fit"Finlay made his debut here in the U.S., I believe he became popular wrestling in the WCW,where he had a great run, later on when he wrestled for the WWE however he was mainly used as a mid carder but he did great that is until they did the storyline where Hornswoggle turned out to be his kayfabe son, but I think this early match here was when he was at his greatest."-😎.🌐📱🌐. and the
Definitely haystack would of killed him ,if u see one bout daddy was on the floor funny haystack didn't jump on him ,they say outside haystack was one of the nicest guys you could meet
Clive Ellis you think Daddy and Stacks would have had the energy to do a trial run before this match? No chance. All of it is called in the ring on the fly and some what planned out by a agent back stage.
Anyone who says that doesn't realise how bog a star haystacks and big daddy were. Just because they don't fly around the ring, doesn't mean they can't work. Why put unnecessary strain and injury on your body, work a low risk style, and still send the fans home happy.
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I used to go to my Grandparents house on a Saturday. British wrestling at 12pm followed by Airwolf at 1pm. Those were the days!
A perfect day 🎉
Use to watch myself
Absolutely
Same here, didn’t appreciate how special those days were.
This is what Saturday afternoons was about ❤At my grans watching this Brings back such lovely memories 💖 The best EASY EASY EASY
World of sport wrestling followed by Cup Final day, I really miss those Saturdays !!!
This is what really family tv was. Those were the good old days
same here? Saturday afternoon at 4 was in front of the tv watching wrestling and the footie results popping up.
Cry baby jim breaks was my favourite.
wrestler, Good heel ,He knew how to work the crowd..
I heard he killed his girlfriend in spain a couple of years ago.
Anyway good childhood memories with my late old man and my brothers
Dads been gone since 99.
🙏🏻 Still missed by us
@@stephenm6100 I'd heard that about Jim Breaks as well but can't find anything about it....Him and Kung Fu were epic bouts...
Dynamite Kid was a beast as well.
I'm only 18 now, I wished I could have lived with this as a kid
I used to watch it with my dad who was big fan of wrestler big daddy. Most died now so my dad in 2012. Saturday's are not same anymore
They were special times and it was, "good old family fun "
Dave fit Finlay!! A name embedded in my childhood! Saturdays were wrestling days ❤️
It should not have been on World of Sport because it was not sport. It is faked and staged. That's why it was banned.
Dave Fit Finlay and Princess Paula were a great team.
Great list of matches this. Brings back memories
Thx
Met Haystacks in Germany when on Wrestling Tour with Tony St Clair...never met anyone as big since....came to our Cookhouse and ate 6 full dinners and a Cheeseboard selection...was a very nice,pleasant and quiet man.
DID YOU EVER MEET ANDRE THE GIANT. IM CURIOUS IF ANDRE AND GIANT HAYSTAX EVER MET
Looking back fondly on all those times......you don't know what you've got.......till it's gone....!!!!!!
I remember the comintator always finished with...... Have a good week till next week 😘. Dr who, fish fingers on toast and bed. Great days
Fish fingers on toast!? I remember my mum always used to over or under cook the former!
Dave Finlay was a very talented Wrestler, great technical ability. I don't know much about his career in the states but I hope he made good money out there.
He had a son hornswoggle and had a good few matches with Drax the destroyer.
RIP Drew. Perth will miss you...xox
mrKkarrma Awwww no, I didnae know he passed away, a cool guy he was too, my sympathies to his family :'( I would put a thumb up, but in this case it's thumbs down, not only was he loved in Perth but the whole of Scotland loved him, R.I.P. big fella...
Great days! I wish that they could have gone on forever!
4pm on Saturday afternoons, used to watch it with my dad, now those good old days are gone, Big Daddy gone, Giant Haystacks gone, and even my dad passed away in 1991, certainly the 70's and 80's was a great time to grow up in, not like today, what do we have to look forward to now? ...cooking programmes on Saturday mornings, and the dreadful X factor.
Well said
My mum did baking on Saturday afternoons and just hearing Ken Walton's commentary takes me right back to when I was 6 years old - mum died when I was 8.
And just recently we have lost Andy Robin. (Dec 2019) RIP
@@jackwalker7554 RIP Princess Paula and Drew McDonald
@@davidfrost2819 Hi David ,i never made any comment regarding that video clip on UA-cam.
For American fans a Stone is roughly 14 lbs. US, so Giant Haystacks at 42 Stone equals about 588 lbs give or take
A stone isn`t roughly 14 pounds John, it IS 14 pounds !
Really? 588lbs? That would put him apps 70lbs heavier than Andre? I’d have to ask for a stewards inquiry on that one.
8:19 That move is known as the " Wedding Tackle"
It's such a shame that we didn't get the proper wrestling backstories that were being used in the States at this time...I loved my Saturday afternoon wrestling as a kid...but the Promos and gimmicks of, say Memphis wrestling at this time (with about 10% of the audience of World of Sport!...)well, it would have made this heaven...
Big Daddy was one of the wrestlers who helped to destroy British television wrestling. In a tag match, it was always the same. The co-wrestler in Daddy`s corner, got battered while Big Daddy stayed outside the ropes and joined the bout for the last minute or so, to win the match. He actually worked for only about three or four minutes in total, with a break part way through.
He's like Mike Tyson. He knocks his opponents out in a minute...and everyone wonders why they bought the PPV.
I agree totally he was a joke and took most money
He scripted all his bouts with his money grabbing family. Haystacks was never allowed to get the better of him, usually racing out of the ring after 30 seconds with Daddy, like he was petrified when in reality, he could have knocked Big Daddy into next week
Big Daddy is like Goldberg, Lesnar, Cena, & Now Reigns for Burying the Roster for their Records.
@@conradojavier7547 Except all of Britain loved him anyway. He is everything Hogan wished he was popularity wise.
The adrenaline rush on Saturday afternoons
Haystacks was one of the nicest people you could meet he made my mom feel special when she asked him for a photo with her
もう40年近い前に全日本プロレスの試合に行ってジャイアントヘイスタックを見た。本当に大きくでかかった。試合が終わった後馬場さんとぶつかり合いをしていたがさすがの馬場さんも苦笑いをしてそのままリングを先に降りて帰って行ったのを覚えています。ただアンドレのような強さと旨さはまだ新人なのかあまり感じなかった。この試合を見てもそれがよくわかりますよね。出来ればもっとレスラーとして成長して経験を積んで強くなってアンドレと試合をして欲しかったですね。二人が上がればリングが本当に小さく見えたはずですね。
日本のリングでぜひ見たかったですね。さぞ凄い迫力の試合になったでしようね。
Great Camera work on introducing Fit Finlay at 1:08 ! Those MC's in the 70's and 80's could kill any build up and anticipation stone dead. They were really useless. I love watching them now, dressed up in a hire suit from Burtons, waving the programme which helps them remember the names...it's a curious anomaly of British Wrestling that the bouts opened this way for so long.
It was because British wrestling did treat it like boxing with rounds and counts for knockdowns.
Great memories. Haystacks was always ranting about how good he was-though was skillfull at avoiding Big Daddy in tag contests-as for Fit Finlay-he was another who you loved to hate, especially when his wife-the lovely(!!) Princess Paula-as foul as a box of frogs started mouthing off. Brilliant stuff
WAS THIS THE WCW'S FIT FINLEY BECAUSE BIT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HIM AT ALL
Same guy
Dave Finley looks like a muscled up Daniel Bryan here.
Daddy was always disrespectful of haystacks even on the this is your life episode, in real life haystacks was a gentle giant.
Saturday afternoons the way they used to be, Before cheap and nasty reality shows and cookery programmes took over the airwaves,
Eez-eh, Eez-eh, Eez-eh, big daddy was my first hero as a kid, used to go watch the wrestling on a Thursday night at the end of the pier at Morecambe, before it was burned down, great memories ✌️😎.
Big Daddy...what a star.
God i miss those days
I remember watching this at the time but I couldn't remember how it ended.
Thanks for uploading.
Drew McDonald as a goodie didn't last.
This must be one of Giant Haystacks' last splashes. I assume he was too heavy to do them without injuring people.
Holy shit! Finlay back in the day! The man could move!!
Great memories. All showmanship but who cared? Haystacks was always good for a rant and Daddy was the greatest. Fit Finlay ended up in the States. Well remember that old boot of of a wife Princess Paula-half Cherokee but all mouth with her feathered headdress and ready slaps when Finlay was losing. What a pairing!
I saw her wrestle as Cherokee Priincess at Wallasey Civic Hall
so that's a very young pre-WWE Fit Finlay?
moo cow sure is
Pre-Wcw Finley
Didn't know he went to the WWE I know Haystack appeared as Lockness in WCW
Fit Finlay with a beautiful kick up off the canvas. Impressive for this era.
Shame he was a heel - could have gone further.
Fit Finlay had quite a run in WCW
We saw Finley’s class as a wrestler here - he was more athletic, quicker, technically superior and a great bumper - it’s no surprise that he had the most lucrative career of all 4 of these guys
He simply lasted longer. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks were much better.
Big Daddy became the household name that Finlay didn't. Finlay just had a longer careet.
Finlay by no metric had a more successful career (including money when inflation is taken into account). He was a decent journeyman with midcard runs in the US (WCW and WWE) and obviously a brilliant wrestler. But he is not woven into the fabric of a nation's culture. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are iconic and will be names that crop up for many years past our own time. Wrestling in America is not the be all and end all. Especially back when World of Sport was watched by millions every Saturday here in the UK. How many buildings did Finlay sell out? None, no one paid to see Finlay... Everyone on the British circuit paid and watched TV to see Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. Even Finlay would tell you these facts, they were the marquee names he never was.
Big daddy delivered a backdrop. That takes his move set upto three moves!
I agree Bob he was awful thereupon british tv wrestling died
@@nealspilsbury8639 Hulk Hogan wasn't much better. He could only do more than 3 moves because he was half the size.
Stax as always psyching out Big Daddy
Sad, but most of those in the ring have now passed away.
This is the Best quality wrestling. So much better than the American junk we have to put up with now. Someone thinks that some of the U.S. Wrestlers (Bill Goldberg was mentioned.) Could tear apart the World Of Sports stars. Does anyone else disagree with that? Could Bill Golberg take Big Daddy and Haystacks out? Drop comment to let me know
Interesting you mentioned Goldberg. There was an incident a few years back when he was paired with Blackpool's very own William Regal who used to wrestle on World Of Sport when younger. Although he had been told to lose the match, Regal decided to have some fun first. He put Goldberg (who was being heavily-promoted at the time) in all sorts of armlocks and you could tell the American was shit worried as he didn't have a clue how to get out of them.
Try better troll
I absolutely loved Big Daddy when I was a kid but Christ, watching this, it’s hard to believe we produced the Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith
Horses for courses. Daddy and haystacks wrestled that way because it suited their size and characters, you couldn't have a 40 stone man doing top rope moves!
You've just watched a match with fit finlay in and wondered how we produced some great athletic wrestlers ?
Big Daddy! You make me laugh😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂
Was fit finlay the brother of the glentoran goalkeeper
I wonder if Britney Spears wants this gold swimming costume back that Big Daddy borrowed
04:32 in this video
🤣😅😆
I used too go to my nans house on Saturday afternoons and she really took it so seriously
Finlay was a very good wrestler
really awsome
Someone answer? Why referee count faster? Dont you see it is completely wrong???
That's how they counted in England. Not everything is like WWE
Brill! Nuff said.
Big daddy looks like he’s got a full diaper
Haystacks looks like what would have happened if Akeem ate the Big Boss Man and Slick.
è uscito bottiglia che vuol dire?
the biggest tag team match in WOS history
All gone now, including Paula and the ref - apart from Finlay.
MCDonald playing Mr. Nice Guy? Surely not?
Yet another tag bout not reaching 10 minutes!
Before Finlay got Hornswoggle
This was a tag match to put Fit Finlay over - whilst teasing a "Haystacks vs Daddy" showdown
Who is the bird?
FF,S manager Princess Paula and his wife
Gorgeous she was... r.i.p Paula x
Not the fit Finley I remember
Finlay pre USA and pre mullet!
Shall I tell you the shame of this all? Haystacks was a much nicer man in reality, to Big Daddy. Daddy was a self absorbed money grabbing cretin who literally wrote the script for these bouts (Big Daddy & partner go a fall down after partner gets battered and then in pantomime style, makes it back to tag Daddy who gets the equalising fall and then the opponents refuse to fight on)
With his brother referring, they literally ran wrestling!
It's a shame Haystacks' pathetic script wasn't torn up and he be allowed to be the good guy for once..I hated Daddy and his pathetic acting with a passion
agree a few people on this tv was much better IN 70s and 80s. 25 to 30 years later finlay appeared on wwe." I LOVE TO FIGHT".
Drew head butt's his hand😂😂😂
That's the way a pro wrestling "headbutt" is delivered.If he headbutted his head he would hurt or injure him.
the number one
Haystacks was in the ring for about nine seconds in total.
The idea was he was scared of Big Daddy
12:29 Go away!
フィンレーとマクドナルドはいいレスラー
Not mean giant haystack
Big Daddy should have won Sports Personality of the Year but the BBC threw away all the votes for him :(
Look at the state of big daddy's legs. Barely hold him up...
e vissero tutti felici e contenti il bene x 4000 anni poi personalizzz del sole e altri 4000 e poi sopra.
Any one of these 3 could have beat big daddy with one arm tied behind their back
Princess Paula
lots of flatulence I think
My mum met haystacks gentle giant is what my mam said.
1.86x100 kg largo con occhi celesti e tutti i capelli bianchi in testa occhi celesti.
"This was several years before
Dave" Fit"Finlay made his
debut here in the U.S.,
I believe he became popular
wrestling in the
WCW,where he had a
great run,
later on when he wrestled
for the WWE however he
was mainly used as a mid carder
but he did great that is until
they did the storyline where Hornswoggle
turned out to be his kayfabe son,
but I think this early match here
was when he was at his greatest."-😎.🌐📱🌐.
and the
escono male le parole scusate
non mi escono bene le parole gam gam
ma poco
è il prescelto nonostante fosse inglese lo voglio a 65 anni con l anima bianca e invece di lottare deve fare l amore xchè se no fa come l uomo tigre.
Big daddy getting paid for doing nothing hillllaaaarrrrouse😅
si ma il corpo lo usa x fare l amore stavolta e non lottare se no diventa una fissazione
Haystack would have mulerd Daddy.
Definitely haystack would of killed him ,if u see one bout daddy was on the floor funny haystack didn't jump on him ,they say outside haystack was one of the nicest guys you could meet
volevo dire fosse,
Any1 there ? Sent my number wrestling fans
Did the commentators think this was real???
Of course not!
It almost looks like it is rehearsed
Clive Ellis you think Daddy and Stacks would have had the energy to do a trial run before this match? No chance. All of it is called in the ring on the fly and some what planned out by a agent back stage.
You don't see much blood or bruises ! 😆
@@shaungreen5671 Great fun it all was
@@zarrow50 Yes... when you're a kid. 😁
World of Sport was good on Saturday Afternoon. 👍
Big Daddy has gotta be the worst wrestler ever !
When the Giant Haystacks wrestled in WCW 12 years later he was better than this
Anyone who says that doesn't realise how bog a star haystacks and big daddy were. Just because they don't fly around the ring, doesn't mean they can't work. Why put unnecessary strain and injury on your body, work a low risk style, and still send the fans home happy.
Kids don't eat burgers or you will end up as being 42 stone but with no job apart from 24/7 eating.
56 stone v 52 stone he says. That means big daddy only 27 stone then. Yer right
There's only 1 athlete in that ring
Inventing with wresting >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wrestling