ITV’s World of Sport Future in Serious Doubt

ITV is currently considering several possible backup plans to their World of Sport television show while the future of the show is in serious doubt, according to this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported the main problem at the moment is ITV and Impact Wrestling still have not reached an agreement on a business partnership which was the reason for the initial delay. While ITV is still interested in doing a wrestling show, they are considering the idea of dropping Impact Wrestling if more of their plans are delayed.

Another major issue regarding the future of World of Sport is wrestlers involved with the project are currently very unhappy at the direction things have gone and have blamed Impact Wrestling. Several wrestlers are currently no longer interested in signing exclusive deals with ITV which is needed for World of Sport. With WWE’s recent tour of the United Kingdom, several wrestlers were reported to have contacted the WWE for possible UK deals with them instead.

Meltzer stated ITV is currently considering the idea of delaying World of Sport till early 2018 although also could likely drop the project by then. Main issues are ITV might lose all interest in the project by next year and them being worried at the rising costs for World of Sport’s production development.