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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 !

The British Heavyweight title was the only UK title to suffer from any serious disputes, by and large titles have remained undisputed since the aftermath of the Mountevans Committee in 1947.

In 1958, Joint Promotions, sick of Bert Assirati's tendency to refuse to obey orders, shoot on and destroy opponents and generally act as a nucleus of lockeroom discontent, stripped him of the title and sacked him as champion.

Assirati continued to claim the title ...

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Hi!

I built this site recently... It is very minimal, but it's very hard to find informations about french pro-wrestling... No popular interest, unknown archive...

So I search and I find some books, some photos from this books, some articles.. I hope can propose to you more stuff to the future.


The PHOTOS section is the most interessant....

Wrestling Title Histories only lists few titles for France, recognized by FCLA, FCLP, and FFLP. I don't even know what these abbr. stand for.

I remember reading an article on "Wrestling Revue" magazine back in mid-80s with mentions of the current champs in France, but I lost the magazine. :(

Anyone have more info on France?

found a great web site

<a href='http://www.kendonagasaki.com' target='_blank'>www.kendonagasaki.com</a>

O.K. I train at Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club which is the offspring club of the Snake Pit. My trainer Roy Wood was trained by the man himseld Billy Riley and after a great competition in Scotland, we were talking about Billy on the way back. I was impressing with my knowlege of the titles that Billy had won and Roy told me something that will change the history of this belt. Billy NEVER lost the ...

Recently The Wrestling Alliance, FWA, All Star, WAW, and Premiere Promotions held a tournament to crown a Universal British Champ - won by "The Anarchist" Doug Willaims...all the info is at <a href='http://www.thewrestlingalliance.co.uk' target='_blank'>www.thewrestlingalliance.co.uk</a> or at the FWA site or on <a href='http://www.prowrestlingnews.net' target='_blank'>www.prowrestlingnews.net</a>

This would be a good time to carry on with British Heavyweight title lineage as all the promotions were involved, and thus cant be disputed.

I know that Hammerlock Wrestling (NWA UK) held a Trans-Atlantic Challenge, and I was wondering what was the history of the Trans-Atlantic Cup (which latter became NWA UK TV Cup)? I know Sinn (Chris CHampion) was the 1st champion followed by Gary Steele. Any help would be awesome!

nWa CHuckie

Checking in Liverpool sources, it appears clear that Cannon and McInerney did not match on 22 August 1894 (Connors matched in that date).
Moreover, Hack vs. Cannon held on 13 and not 5 September 1902. In both cases, no European title was on stake. Unique doubt covers possible awarding of Roeber (albeit unprobable). Abs did not fight for European title (checking done with current German historians). On "New York Clipper" Bech Olsen and Roeber matched ...