LDN Wrestling

LDN Wrestling
Acronym LDN
Founded November 2004
Style Professional wrestling
Sports entertainment
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Founder(s) Sanjay Bagga
Owner(s) Sanjay Bagga
Website LDNWrestling.com

LDN Wrestling is a British Professional wrestling promotion run by Sanjay Bagga. It was founded in November 2004 and is based in London. Bagga's promotion tours theatres, town halls, leisure centres and community halls all over England and Wales. They are the biggest touring company in the UK

History

LDN Wrestling was founded in November 2004 by lifelong wrestling fan Sanjay Bagga.[1] The aim of the company was to build a brand that could tour the country under the LDN name. Bagga's stated mission for the promotion is to "put the 'British' back in 'British wrestling.'"[2]

LDN toured mostly London based venues until March 2007 when it signed a television deal with The Wrestling Channel. Its two and half year span on the channel remains the longest running British wrestling television show to have been launched after the end of regular British wrestling on ITV in 1988. The show drew constant good ratings and often had its best ratings on Boxing Day.

Key moments in LDN Capital TV's show have included a contest in which ten time former World Lightweight champion Johnny Saint, also known as "the man of 1,000 holds" and a former 10-time lightweight champion of the world, came out of retirement and defeated fellow British wrestling veteran, Johnny Kidd and a feud pitting legendary masked star Kendo Nagasaki against then-champion Yorghos. LDN also established its own stars such as "Notorious" Jon Ritchie, who dominated the promotion for over threeyears, as well as Alan Lee Travis and the "Peckham Playboy" Hakan, both of whom have held titles with LDN.

In 2013, WOS Wrestling LTD approached LDN Wrestling to help produce the World of Sport TV taping at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. The event took place in November that year in front of the biggest audience for a wrestling show at the venue for ten years, with former WWE wrestler Matt Striker in the main event against Johnny Kidd. It was the biggest wrestling draw In Croydon for a wrestling show for over 15 years.

In 2015, LDN Wrestling was presented with British promotion of the year at the British Wrestlers Reunion.

LDN is currently touring Great Britain [3] with 172 dates scheduled for 2016

LDN Wrestling announced in July that it now sponsored by Norstar Magnetics

Training Schools

LDN currently runs one training school, every Thursday in Romford (except for when they are LDN shows taking place on that day).[4]

The Thursday school is held at the Central Park Leisure Centre in Harold Hill, the school is run by Alan Lee Travis.

Roster

Current Roster

  • Anthony Bowens
  • Bam Bam Barton
  • Crusher Curtis
  • Dark Lord
  • Jekyll
  • JJ
  • Johnny Love
  • Jonathan Hardwick
  • Mal Sanders
  • MV Young
  • Paul Malen
  • The Zebra Kid
  • Rude Boy Reiley
  • Terry Isit
  • Toby Dynamite
  • Alan Lee Travis
  • Zak Knight

Referees

  • Dave Walker
  • Matthew Newman

Ring Announcers

  • Steve Lytton
  • Sanjay Bagga

Championships

Current champions

Title Current holder Date won Location Previous Champion Days
LDN Capital Championship Toby Dynamite August 2016 Sheerness United Kingdom
LDN British Championship Crusher Curtis August 6, 2016 Newport, Isle of Wight, England Alan Lee Travis 121

See also

References

  1. ↑ LDN Wrestling - About
  2. ↑ "About — LDN Wrestling". www.ldnwrestling.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  3. ↑ LDN Wrestling - Events
  4. ↑ LDN Wrestling - Training

External links

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