Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship
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The Stampede
British Commonwealth
Mid-Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling
title
for lighter wrestlers in the Canadian
promotion
, Stampede Wrestling
. It has existed since 1978.
Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
British Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
Mid-Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
title
Championship (professional wrestling)
A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...
for lighter wrestlers in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
promotion
Professional wrestling promotion
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...
, Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
. It has existed since 1978.
Title history
indicates that a title change happened no later than the date listed. Silver marks in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.| Wrestlers: | Times: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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| The Dynamite Kid Dynamite Kid Thomas Wilton Billington , best known by the ring name Dynamite Kid, is a retired British professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, Stampede Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid- to late-1980s... |
1 | July 1978 | ||
| Norman | 1 | September 1978 | ||
| Bret Hart Bret Hart Bret Hart is a Canadian on-screen personality, writer, actor and Semi-retired professional wrestler. Like others in the Hart wrestling family, Hart has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College... |
1 | October 14, 1978 | Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census... |
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| The Dynamite Kid | 2 | January 6, 1979 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| Bret Hart | 2 | June 1, 1979 | ||
| The Dynamite Kid | 3 | July 7, 1979 | ||
| Terry Sawyer | 1 | October 12, 1979 | ||
| Bret Hart | 3 | |||
| Title vacated between October 1979 and March 1980. | ||||
| The Dynamite Kid | 4 | March 24, 1980 | Red Deer, Alberta Red Deer, Alberta Red Deer is a city in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's third-most-populous city – after Calgary and Edmonton. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills... |
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| Bruce Hart Bruce Hart (wrestler) Bruce Dennis Luis Hart is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. The second son of Stu Hart, Hart is a member of the large Hart wrestling family.Hart substitute teaches for the Calgary Board of Education.-Career:... |
1 | September 19, 1980 | ||
| Hubert Gallant Hubert Gallant Hubert Gallant is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and trainer who competed in North American regional promotions during the 1970s and early 1980s including Stampede Wrestling and Emile Dupree's Grand Prix Wrestling as well short stints in the National Wrestling Alliance, specifically the... |
1 | March 13, 1981 | Calgary, Alberta Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies... |
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| Keith Hart | 1 | May 9, 1981 | ||
| The Great Gama Gadowar Singh Sahota Gadowar Singh Sahota is a professional wrestler known as Gama Singh. Sahota eventually wound up in Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. Sahota worked Kuwait, Dubai, Oman, Australia, and Hawaii for Vince McMahon and the WWF from 1980-86... |
1 | November 6, 1981 | ||
| Bruce Hart | 2 | January 12, 1982 | Regina, Saskatchewan Regina, Saskatchewan Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox... |
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| Dick Steinborn | 1 | 1982 | ||
| Bruce Hart | 3 | 1982 | ||
| The Dynamite Kid | 5 | 1982 | ||
| Davey Boy Smith Davey Boy Smith Davey Boy Smith was a British professional wrestler, better known as "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, who was born in Golborne in North West England, United Kingdom. Smith is known for his appearances with Stampede Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling... |
1 | October 9, 1982 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Title vacated in 1982. | ||||
| Danny Davis | 1 | November 12, 1982 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Bruce Hart | 4 | February 18, 1983 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| The Cobra George Takano George Takano is a professional wrestler who hailed from Uganda under the alias The Cobra, a masked wrestler persona... |
1 | September 2, 1983 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Sonny Two Rivers Junji Hirata is a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestles for the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, and currently uses the ring name .-Career:Hirata made his debut in New Japan on August 26, 1978 against Yoshiaki Fujiwara... |
1 | November 18, 1983 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Ron Starr | 1 | March 2, 1984 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Bruce Hart | 5 | August 25, 1984 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| Gama Singh | 1 | December 6, 1985 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| The Cobra | 2 | December 20, 1985 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Gama Singh | 2 | December 21, 1985 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| Bruce Hart | 6 | April 19, 1986 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| Title vacated on June 27, 1986. | ||||
| Gama Singh | 3 | August 1, 1986 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Johnny Smith John Hindley John Hindley is a retired British professional wrestler best known by his ring name Johnny Smith.-Early years in the U.K. :... |
1 | August 8, 1986 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Les Thornton Les Thornton Les Thornton is a retired British professional wrestler who competed in European and North American regional promotions throughout the 1970s and 1980s including Stampede Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance... |
1 | September 18, 1986 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Owen Hart Owen Hart Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional and amateur wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling , and most notably, the World Wrestling Federation , where he wrestled under both his own name, and ring name The... |
1 | October 25, 1986 | Edmonton, Alberta | |
| Gama Singh | 4 | August 7, 1987 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Chris Benoit Chris Benoit Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide... |
1 | March 18, 1988 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Johnny Smith | 2 | June 10, 1988 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Chris Benoit | 2 | June 17, 1988 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Johnny Smith | 3 | June 24, 1988 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Chris Benoit | 3 | January 13, 1989 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Johnny Smith | 4 | July 7, 1989 | Dawson Creek, British Columbia Dawson Creek, British Columbia Dawson Creek is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of had a population of 11,529 in 2009. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer Dawson by a member of his land... |
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| Chris Benoit | 4 | July 8, 1989 | Grande Prairie, Alberta Grande Prairie, Alberta Grande Prairie is a city in the northwestern part of the province of Alberta in Western Canada. It is located on the southern edge of the Peace River Country . The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No... |
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| Gama Singh | 5 | August 4, 1989 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Bruce Hart | 7 | October 14, 1989 | Lethbridge, Alberta Lethbridge Lethbridge is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the largest city in southern Alberta. It is Alberta's fourth-largest city by population after Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer, and the third-largest by area after Calgary and Edmonton. The nearby Canadian Rockies contribute to the city's... |
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| Stampede Wrestling closed in December 1989. | ||||
| Stampede Wrestling reopened in 1999. | ||||
| Richard Pound John Cozman John Cozman is a Canadian professional wrestler and trainer, known by his ring name "Principal" Richard Pound who competes in North American independent promotions, most notably as a mainstay of Stampede Wrestling during the 1980s and late 1990s.-Career:Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Cozman became... |
1 | November 5, 1999 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Tiger Mahatma Khan | 1 | June 2, 2000 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Khan was stripped of the title in August 2002 for lack of defenses. | ||||
| Bruce Hart | 8 | November 15, 2002 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Duke Durango | 1 | June 20, 2003 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| TJ Wilson | 1 | October 15, 2004 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Duke Durango | 2 | January 14, 2005 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Title vacated in May 2005. | ||||
| Pete Wilson Pete Wilson (wrestler) Pete Wilson is a Canadian professional wrestler. Wilson is currently wrestling for the Calgary based Stampede Wrestling promotion.-Professional wrestling career:... |
1 | June 17, 2005 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Randy Myers | 1 | May 26, 2006 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Chucky Blaze | 1 | January 12, 2007 | Calgary, Alberta | |
| Gama Singh, Jr. | 1 | December 14, 2007 | Calgary, Alberta | |