News of Europe

A New British Heavyweight Champion was crowned this month heres the details

All Star Wrestling Promotions
Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England
7th June 2005
"Highlander" Drew McDonald Def. "Wildcat" Robbie Brookside (2 falls to 1)

which mean the NEW British Heavyweight Champion is; "Highlander" Drew McDonald.

Also on the same night, All Star revived the "British Open Tag-Team Championship" by having two teams face each other with the winner being crowned the new British Open Tag-Team ...

I didn't know any other place to post this, but does anyone of you know what wrestling Anton geesink did in Europe? I know he did a lot in all Japan, but I recently heared that he did some in Europe too and I was interested if anyone knew anything more.

British legend Pat "Bomber" Roach passed away on July 17th.

Click <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3903823.stm' target='_blank'>here</a> for more detail.

RIP

In the current issue of the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, from pages 8-32 (I think), there is a good-sized article, with pictures, and old posters, of pro wrestling in Spain. Basically the article is about how Jujitsu-ka fought catch wrestlers at the turn of the century in the Iberian Penninsula. The book is a bit expensive but aside from DragonKing Press and maybe EJMAS, there is little written about wrestling in Spain (in English ...

Does anybody have a good bio on Hackenschmidt.

Is anyone here has news of Cannonball, one of the greatest pro wrestler in France ?

Hi, I'm looking for as many pictures as possible of the CWA's World Heavyweight title. I saw it for the first time in a picture of Vader from 1990 where he held the CWA, IWGP and UWA titles and I've fallen in love with it! I'd prefer a picture (or pictures) of it on its own (ala most of the pictures of titles on this site) but I'll be glad to have pictures of it ...

Hi,

I don't think i've posted on these forums for a while...

I run Scottish Championship Wrestling and we have had a Scottish Heavyweight Champion since April 19th, 2003, when Conscience became out first Champion.

At our show on Saturday, July 19th, Conscience had to relinquish the belt and "The Highlander From Hell" Drew McDonald defeated Andy Hogg to become our new Champion.

Anyway, the reason I am mentioning it is because Drew was...I believe...the ...

Hello dear fans around the world :cheers:

<a href='http://perso.wanadoo.fr/uncensored.assault/documentation-catch-france/base.htm' target='_blank'>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/uncensored.assault...france/base.htm</a>


Promotion : CWA.
Fight : Flesh Gordon Vs Cato Gipsy.
Year : 1993.
Size : 29 mo.


If possible, can you describe what you think of this fight? Which note?

Thanx! :P

Whether it's in french or english (i know both versions are available on the internet) i'd like to find the extract from Roland Barthes' book entitled in which he talks about wrestling i.e "catch" in french....

if any of you guys could help me out, that'd be great !