Jack Jester

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Jack Jester
Birth nameLee John Greig
Born (1987-07-10) 10 July 1987 (age 37)
Glasgow, Scotland
Children3
Website https://twitter.com/glasgowjester
Professional wrestling career
Billed height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight19 st 0 lb 108 kg 238 lb

Lee John Greig [1] [2] (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Jack Jester. [1] He wrestles for numerous promotions in the British independent wrestling circuit, but is best known for his work in Insane Championship Wrestling, [3] [4] Greig is a Wrestling Coach at GPWA Glasgow Asylum.

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Greig has appeared for Xhamster videos and in several professional wrestling documentaries including The British Wrestler (VICE) [5] and Smack 'Em Up (RTÉ). [6] He was also one of the stars of BBC documentaries Insane Fight Club [7] and Insane Fight Club 2. [2] [8] In 2016, Jester challenged Drew Galloway for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in British Championship Wrestling. [9]

He was raised in the Fernhill area of Rutherglen, [2] and began wrestling at the age of 16. [10]

Professional Wrestling Career

Jester debuted in 1998. [11] He won the Scottish Heavyweight Championship from Johnny Moss in 2007. [12] He beat Mikey Whiplash for the ICW Heavyweight Championship in 2013, holding it for 385 days with defences against Sabu, Fergal Devitt, Joe Coffey, Grado, Wolfgang, Jimmy Havoc, Big Damo, Mark Coffey and Martin Stone before losing the title to Drew Galloway in 2015. Jester received two rematches but was unsuccessful.

On ICW: Fight Club in 2018, Jester and Sha Samuels defeated Rampage Brown and Ashton Starr for the ICW Tag Team Championships [13] before losing them back to Brown and Starr at ICW: Fear & Loathing XI. [14]

On 8 August 2022, Jester defeated Andy Wild, Krieger and Jason Reed to become number one contender to the ICW World Heavyweight Championship [15] but was defeated by champion Kez Evans at ICW: Shug's Hoose Party 7. [16]

Acting career

Greig under his Jack Jester ring name had a small role in the 2014 Horror film The House of Him. [17] Grieg starred in the pilot [18] for and two seasons of the BBC Scotland comedy The Scotts between 2021 and 2022. [19]

Championships and accomplishments

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