British_Light_Heavyweight_Championship

British Light Heavyweight Championship

British Light Heavyweight Championship

Professional wrestling championship

The British Light Heavyweight Championship was a top British wrestling championship found throughout the country's circuit. The title's broken history dates back to the 1920s. After going inactive in 2004, the title was re-activated in 2014.

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The championship was recognised and defended on matches screened by UK national television network ITV as part of the professional wrestling slot on World of Sport as well as standalone broadcasts.[1][2] Pre-publicity for these championship match broadcasts was given in ITV's nationally published listings magazine TVTimes.[3][4]

Title history

This is the combined list of different versions of the British Heavyweight Titles, each of which was probably the most significant version at the time. Each version may or may not be connected to another. However, all title changes are either actual or "official" unless indicated otherwise.

Original

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Footnotes

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    unrelated to the Steve Logan listed above

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Marty Jones capture of vacant British Light Heavyweight title in tournament final over Mark Rocco in Wolverhampton 12 October 1976". World Of Sport - Wrestling. ITV. 23 October 1976.
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    "Fit Finlay capture of vacant British Light Heavyweight title in tournament final over Ringo Rigby in Oldham 24 February 1983". World Of Sport - Wrestling. ITV. 12 March 1983.
  3. [3]
    "For the vacant British Light Heavyweight Championship: Marty Jones v Mark Rocco". Saturday 23 October - Friday 29 October 1976 - Saturday listings page. TVTimes. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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    ""For the vacant British Light Heavyweight Championship: Fit Finlay v Ringo Rigby"". Saturday 12 March - Friday 18 March 1983 - Saturday listings page. TVTimes. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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    Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). "Europe - Great Britain: British Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 403. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
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    "Fighting Entertainment Wrestle-1 「衝撃～Impact～」". Wrestle-1 (in Japanese). 2014-07-06. Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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    "イングランド遠征中の吉岡世起選手初防衛戦決定のお知らせ". Wrestle-1 (in Japanese). 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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    "イングランドでの吉岡世起選手、初防衛戦結果のお知らせ". Wrestle-1 (in Japanese). 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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