 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for sports and athletics .(September 2017) |
| Australian Middleweight Championship | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||
The Australian Middleweight Championship was a national Australian professional wrestling championship and was the first Middleweight Championship in Australia. [1] [2] [3]
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date won: | Location: | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Hertel | 1 | Melbourne | ||
| Hughie Whitman | 1 | Melbourne | Also billed as Australasian champion. | |
| Anton Koolman | 1 | Melbourne | ||
| Hughie Whitman | 2 | Melbourne | ||
| Jim Deakin | 1 | 9 May 1931 | Sydney | Defeats Jack Haymon |
| VACANT | 1 | Sydney | Deakin retired | |
| Dick Cameron | 1 | 8 June 1935 | Sydney | |
| Sammy Rogers | 1 | 30 May 1936 | Sydney | |
| Dick Cameron | 2 | 27 May 1939 | Sydney | |
| INACTIVE | 1 | Sydney | ||
| Ray Greenfield | 1 | 28 February 1953 | Sydney | Defeats Len Holt |
| John Morrow | 1 | 17 August 1955 | Sydney | |
| Lenny Holt | 1 | 2 April 1957 | Sydney | Title retired in 1960 |
Hiroaki Hamada, better known by his ring name Gran Hamada, is a Japanese professional wrestler, the first to adopt the high-flying Mexican lucha libre style. He has wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, Michinoku Pro and All Japan Pro Wrestling and was the founder of Universal Lucha Libre. He has also had stints with the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States. His daughters Xóchitl Hamada and Ayako Hamada are professional Japanese-Mexican wrestlers.
Mark Lewin is an American retired professional wrestler.
Rolando Hernández Verástegui was a Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, better known as Rolando Vera. One of the most popular luchadores in Mexico in the 1950s, he was also an early star of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Vera wrestled throughout the world during his long career and held the NWA World Middleweight Champion for over four years. He also trained numerous wrestlers during his life including father-and-son Blue Demon and Blue Demon Jr., Sangre Chicana, Angel Mortal, René Guajardo and Sugi Sito.
Walter Miller was the middleweight wrestling champion in 1919.
The Australian Tag Team Wrestling Championship was one of the first Tag team professional wrestling championship in Australia.
The Australian Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship was one of the first light heavyweight professional wrestling championship in Australia.
Explosive Pro Wrestling also known as EPW is an Australian independent professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001 in Perth, Western Australia.
Fred Atkinson, better known by his ring name Fred Atkins, was a New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, trainer, referee, manager, and announcer, best known for his time with Maple Leaf Wrestling.
Tom Lurich was a Polish professional wrestler.
Mark Mercedes is an Australian professional wrestler and promoter, currently owning and promoting the International Wrestling Australia he was one of the few Australians to wrestle for World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling All-Stars.
Arteen Ekizian, better known by the ring name Ali Baba, was an Armenian American professional wrestler and World Heavyweight Champion who was active in the early portion of the twentieth century.
Marshall Wallace Esteppe was an American amateur and professional wrestler. He wrestled primarily throughout the National Wrestling Alliance where he became a three-time World Junior Heavyweight Champion. Following his retirement from professional wrestling, Esteppe became wrestling coach at the University of Missouri. He coached four years voluntarily and is remembered by the university through their "Marshall Esteppe Most Outstanding Freshman" wrestler award, for his role in relaunching M.U.'s wrestling program.
Anton Charles "Tony" Stecher was an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling and boxing promoter and trainer. He was the booker and trainer for his brother, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Stecher, and later was America's top wrestling promoter. In 1948, Stecher was one of five promoters to back Paul "Pinkie" George in the formation of the National Wrestling Alliance.
The CWA World Middleweight Championship was a professional wrestling middleweight championship in Catch Wrestling Association (CWA). The title was one of the two weight-based titles in CWA, along with the CWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, which was introduced in 1993. The title was created in December 1984 and a tournament was set up to determine the inaugural champion. The last previous holder of the European version of the World Middlweight Championship, Adrian Street, had moved to the United States in 1981. Tony St. Clair won the tournament to become the inaugural holder of the new CWA version on December 22, 1984. The title was deactivated when the company closed on December 4, 1999. The championship was contested under 12 three-minute rounds. A rival European version of the World Middleweight championship was promoted in the UK by All Star Wrestling and Rumble Promotions 1991-1996.
James McMath, better known by his ring name Robbie Eagles, is an Australian professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of The Mighty Don't Kneel. He is currently one half of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions with Kosei Fujita. Eagles is also a former member of Bullet Club and Chaos.
Yasu Urano is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer. He is best known for his tenures with Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and Kaientai Dojo promotions.
Daigoro Kashiwa is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and referee best known for his time with the Japanese promotion Kaientai Dojo.
Jonathan Saharawi Barragán González, known under the ring name Arez, is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler. He is currently making appearances on the independent circuit, predominantly for Game Changer Wrestling (GCW). He is best known for his time working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, where he is a former La Leyenda Azul Blue Demon Champion, a former AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion, and a former AAA World Tag Team Champion.
Black Danger is a masked Mexican professional wrestler. He is primarily known for working for promotions such as The Crash Lucha Libre, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Major League Wrestling where he portrays a rudo wrestling character. He previously worked under the ring names Mega Danger and Espectro . Black Danger is a former holder of The Crash Junior Championship and is also a member of La Rebelión Amarilla. His real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico, where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.
Theodore Thye was an American wrestler, promotor and manager in the United States.
