British Flyweight Championship

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British Flyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s) Spud
Date won July 5, 2008
Promotion XWA
Frontier Wrestling Alliance
Date established July 30, 2005
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The British Flyweight Championship is a British flyweight professional wrestling championship currently defended in XWA. It was created in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA), a promotion that was closed in 2007. In 2009, FWA announced plans to reopen and initiate a Flyweight Championship tour; it is unknown how this will affect the status of the current British Flyweight Championship.[1]

The championship has been known as:

  • FWA Flyweight Championship (2005–2007)
  • British Flyweight Championship (2007–present)

History

The championship was originally created and defended in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance in 2005 as a title belt for the lighter wrestlers who did not qualify for the British Heavyweight Championship; though flyweight is often defined by a 123lb or 112lb weight limit in mixed martial arts and boxing, respectively, no strict weight limits are enforced for this belt. The inaugural champion was decided by an eight-man elimination tournament, the brackets for which were:

First Round Semifinals Final
         
Aviv Maayan Pin
Bubblegum  
Ross Jordan Pin
Aviv Maayan  
Ross Jordan Pin
Dan Head  
Ross Jordan Awd
Spud  
Spud Pin
Jack Storm  
Spud Pin
Max Voltage  
Max Voltage Pin
Mark Sloan  

Ross Jordan was awarded the final match against Spud after the referee stopped the contest due to an injury to Spud's leg. This controversial ending would see Jordan crowned the first FWA Flyweight Champion.

Title History

# Wrestler Reigns Date Days held Location Event Notes Ref.
1
 Ross Jordan
1
 July 30, 2005 246 Morecambe, Lancashire Live event Defeated Spud in a tournament final [2]
2
 Pac
1
 April 2, 2006 252 Broxbourne, Hertfordshire Crunch Defeated Ross Jordan and Stevie Lynn in a three-way match [3]
3
 Ross Jordan
2
 December 10, 2006 349 Colchester, Essex Gorefest 2006 - King of the Death Match This was an event cross held under the promotions X-Sports:Wrestling and westside Xtreme wrestling. The title was renamed the British Flyweight Championship in April 2007 when the Frontier Wrestling Alliance was put out of business and XWA carried its lineage. [4]
4
 El Ligero
1
 November 24, 2007 224 Morecambe, Lancashire Last Fight at the Prom 2007 Mexican Street Fight [5]
5
 Spud
1
 July 5, 2008 574 Morecambe, Lancashire Vendetta 2008 Last Man Standing match; in September Spud becomes a double champion by winning the British Heavyweight Championship. [6]
-
 Vacant
-
 January 30, 2010 63 Morecambe, Lancashire Goldrush 2010 Greg Lambert stripped Spud of the title for not defending the title. [7]
6
 El Ligero
2
 January 30, 2010 63 Morecambe, Lancashire Goldrush 2010 Defeated CJ Banks and Marty Scurll and Sam Bailey for the vacant title. [7]
7
 RJ Singh
(Formerly Ross Jordan
3
 April 3, 2010 1409 Morecambe, Lancashire War On The Shore VI [8]

References

  1. ↑ "FWA New Frontiers". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
  2. ↑ "FWA Results 2005". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Retrieved 2009-07-19. 
  3. ↑ "FWA Results 2006". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Retrieved 2009-07-19. 
  4. ↑ Jones, Phil. "Weekend Results: 3CW, FWA:A, RDW, IPW:UK, BCW, X:S-W + More!". BritWres.com. Retrieved 2009-07-19. 
  5. ↑ "Last Fight of the Prom 2008". XWA. Retrieved 2009-07-19. 
  6. ↑ "Vendetta 2008". XWA. Retrieved 2009-07-19. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Goldrush Official Review". XWA. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
  8. ↑ "XWA War on the Shore VI - Official Review". XWA. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 

See also


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