was surprised to find out that Greg Dyke had so much sway at ITV. It was a terrible jump from lots of wrestling on TV, to nothing at all, and I started wrestling abroad a lot more. I wrestled in France, Belgium, Germany, and places like that. I also went to Africa several times.

"I think we were still giving a good product when World of Sport was pulled off the air. I don't know what went wrong. I know that Greg Dyke played a big role in it, but for what reason I don't know. It was an institution, and you wonder what he was thinking, given that it was so popular. We're talking about a TV program that went back to the 1950s, but it was goneI just concentrated on that business instead of wrestling."

Saint officially retired in 1999, but in reality, only took a limited number of bookings in the '90s. Those, however, included a tour of Japan with Michinoku Pro in 1996, when he competed against opponents like Naohiro Hoshikawa and Masato Yakushiji. After his retirement in 1999, Saint never envisaged wrestling again, but was finally lured back into the ring, after training some younger wrestlers in his particular brand of wrestling.

"I'd never really thought much about training younger wrestlers, but various people got in touch with me and asked me if I'd do it. First of all, they asked if I'd consider coming out of retirement, and I said no to that, so they then asked if I'd agree to do