Dickie Davies dies aged 94 as tributes paid to legendary former World of Sport presenter
The news of his passing was broken by his former colleague Jim Rosenthal, who posted on social media: "With huge sadness, we announce Dickie Davies passed away this morning. So proud of his 20 years of World of Sport, 3 Olympic Games and a brilliant career on the telly.
“I was never a great wrestling fan,” Davies told The Guardian in 2006. “I never thought of it as a sport, but we used to get six to 10 million people watching it every Saturday, so the success of it can’t be denied.” In 1961, Davies took on a job as an announcer for Southern Television, paving the way for his appointment as an understudy to Andrews when ITV launched its rival to Grandstand, originally known as ‘Wide World of Sport’, in 1965. When Andrews departed three years later, Davies ascended to the main anchorman position, and was charged with keeping a straight face as he introduced numerous obscure sports, inevitably the overspill from the big-budget dominance on the other channel.
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