British Flyweight Championship
| British Flyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | XWA Frontier Wrestling Alliance | ||||||||||||
| Date established | 30 July 2005 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | July 28, 2012 | ||||||||||||
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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]
History
[edit]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 123 lb or 112 lb 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
[edit]| No. | Champion | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
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1 | Ross Jordan | 1 | 30 July 2005 | 246 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Live event | Defeated Spud in a tournament final | [2] |
2 | Pac | 1 | 2 April 2006 | 252 | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | Crunch | Defeated Ross Jordan and Stevie Lynn in a three-way match | [3] |
3 | Ross Jordan | 2 | 10 December 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 | 24 November 2007 | 224 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Last Fight at the Prom 2007 | Mexican Street Fight | [5] |
5 | Spud | 1 | 5 July 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 | - | 30 January 2010 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Goldrush 2010 | Greg Lambert stripped Spud of the title for not defending the title | [7] | |
6 | El Ligero | 2 | 30 January 2010 | 63 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Goldrush 2010 | Defeated CJ Banks, Marty Scurll and Sam Bailey for the vacant title | [7] |
7 | RJ Singh | 3 | 3 April 2010 | 105 | Morecambe, Lancashire | War On The Shore VI | Previous held the championship under the name Ross Jordan | [8] |
8 | El Ligero | 3 | 17 July 2010 | 567 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Vendetta 2011 | ||
9 | Jynkz | 1 | 4 February 2012 | 175 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Gold Rush 2012 | ||
- | Retired | - | 28 July 2012 | Morecambe, Lancashire | XWA vs GPW Vendetta | The company went on hiatus after being defeated by GPW |
Combined reigns
[edit]| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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| 1 | El Ligero | 3 | 854 |
| 2 | Ross Jordan/RJ Singh | 3 | 700 |
| 3 | Spud | 1 | 574 |
| 4 | Pac | 252 | |
| 5 | Jynkz | 175 |
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "FWA New Frontiers". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ "FWA Results 2005". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ "FWA Results 2006". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ Jones, Phil. "Weekend Results: 3CW, FWA:A, RDW, IPW:UK, BCW, X:S-W + More!". BritWres.com. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ "Last Fight of the Prom 2008". XWA. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ "Vendetta 2008". XWA. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- ^ a b "Goldrush Official Review". XWA. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- ^ "XWA War on the Shore VI - Official Review". XWA. Retrieved 11 April 2010.