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{{short description|British professional wrestling promotion}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox wrestling promotion

|name = Lucha Britannia

|image = Image:Lucha Britannia Trade Mark.jpg

|caption =

|acronym = LB

|established = 2006

|folded =

|style = Lucha libre
Vaudeville

|location = Bethnal Green, London

|founder = Garry Vanderhorne

|owner = Garry Vanderhorne

|parent =

|sister =

|formerly =

|website = http://www.luchabritannia.com/

}}

Lucha Britannia is a British lucha libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Bethnal Green, London since 2006.

History

Lucha Britannia was created by Garry Vanderhorne in 2006 from Rock & Metal Wrestling Action (RAMWA), as an alternative form of physical theatre, music, cabaret, comedy and professional wrestling. In 2007, Lucha Britannia held the first of its six sell-out shows at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. By November 2007 The promotion had outgrown the Working Men's Club and moved to SeOne, a large nightclub beneath London Bridge station. In December that year they were listed by Time Out in their (London) top five Best alternative nightlife of 2007.[http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/4018/Best_alternative_nightlife_of_2007.html Time Out (London), Clubs: Best alternative nightlife of 2007, 19 December 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912234238/http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/4018/Best_alternative_nightlife_of_2007.html |date=12 September 2011 }}

In the summer of 2008 Lucha Britannia featured on the BBC's coverage of the Reading and Leeds festivals and in October that year they co-hosted the inaugural Bizarre Ball in conjunction with Bizarre Magazine.[http://www.bizarremag.com/bizarre-ball-2008/acts/7059/lucha_britannia.html Bizarre Magazine (online), Bizarre Ball: 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529011711/http://www.bizarremag.com/bizarre-ball-2008/acts/7059/lucha_britannia.html |date=2012-05-29 }} In 2009, Lucha Britannia became the first UK based wrestling promotion to feature on live British television in twenty-five years when they featured in their coverage of the Brit Awards after-party at Earls Court hosted by Rufus Hound. Later that year they returned to co-produce and host the second Bizarre Ball again for Bizarre Magazine.[http://www.bizarremag.com/bizarre-events/bizarre-ball-2009/8143/lucha_britannia.html Bizarre Magazine (online), Bizarre Ball: 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601175341/http://www.bizarremag.com/bizarre-events/bizarre-ball-2009/8143/lucha_britannia.html |date=2012-06-01 }}

During 2011, Lucha Britannia put on seventeen events in London and around the UK. In 2016 the promotion increased to hosting semi-monthly shows called Lucha Underground at the Resistance Gallery in Bethnal Green, East London on Friday nights.

Events continued at the Resistance Gallery until 2020 when it briefly closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It triumphantly returned in April 2023 at Village Underground in Shoreditch where there are now regular shows.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Style

Lucha Britannia combines the Lucha Libre style of wrestling that is characterized by the wearing of colourful masks, rapid sequences of holds and maneuvers, tag-teams and "high-flying" with the traditional British technical style, North American and Japanese Puroresu wrestling format.

Aside from wrestling, Lucha Britannia events also include risqué cabaret performances, comedic interludes and side acts.{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/3750/Mexican_wrestling.html|author=Hutchinson, Kate|publisher=Time Out (London)|title=Clubs: Mexican Wrestling|date=29 October 2007|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123181332/http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/features/3750/Mexican_wrestling.html|archivedate=23 January 2012}}

All the characters and performers in Lucha Britannia loosely fit into a fantastical narrative called the "RetroFutureVerse" wherein a fractious band of outlawed prize-fighters (known as the "United Resistance Movement") battle for justice and dignity against the dastardly representatives of tyrannical rulers (known either as "The State" or "The Yankee Boche") in an ornately cruel, futuristic dystopia.{{cite web|url=http://luchabritannia.blogspot.com/|publisher=Lucha Britannia!|title=Lucha Britannia's United Resistance Movement|accessdate=12 March 2012|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807234455/http://luchabritannia.blogspot.com/|archivedate=7 August 2012}}

The promotion runs regular monthly shows from the Village Underground – a venue in Shoreditch in London's East End. Lucha Britannia spawned the London School of Lucha Libre, Lucha Britannia's own professional-wrestling training academy,[http://www.theprisma.co.uk/2011/07/03/%E2%80%98lucha-libre%E2%80%99-in-london/ The Prisma (Online), Lucha Libre in London, 3 July 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111021128/http://www.theprisma.co.uk/2011/07/03/%E2%80%98lucha-libre%E2%80%99-in-london/ |date=11 January 2012 }}[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13482659 BBC News, Mexican Wrestling takes hold in UK, 21 May 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602221505/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13482659 |date=2 June 2012 }} as well as hosting a variety of other events.

Lucha Britannia has also been an attraction on television and at major UK festivals including the Glastonbury Festival, Download Festival, Reading Festival, Leeds Festival and The Brit Awards.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/derby/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8738000/8738980.stm BBC News (Derby), Photos: Download Festival 2010, 14 June 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619160529/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/derby/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8738000/8738980.stm |date=19 June 2010 }}[http://2009.downloadfestival.co.uk/thevillage/item.aspx_id=2838&cid=0.html Download Festival 2009 (Online), The Village: Events Listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115095609/http://2009.downloadfestival.co.uk/thevillage/item.aspx_id%3D2838%26cid%3D0.html |date=2011-11-15 }}

Regular events include immersive theatre with many elements of wrestling, comedy, and sinister cabaret in their shows.

World Championship

As only months are known, each reign is listed as beginning on the first of the month although this may not be true.

class="wikitable"

|+Key

!No.

|Overall reign number

Reign

|Reign number for the specific champion

N/A

|The information is not available or is unknown

+

|Current reign is changing daily

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"

!rowspan=2|{{abbr|No.|Number(s)}}

!rowspan=2|Champion

!colspan=3|Championship change

!colspan=2|Reign statistics

!rowspan=2|Notes

!rowspan=2|{{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}

Date

!Event

!Location

!Reign

!Days

1

|Leon Brittannico

|20 January 2012

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|20 January 2012|19 October 2012}}

|align="left"|{{small|Defeated Bradford W. Bush to become inaugural champion.}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343900|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=20 January 2012|access-date=10 July 2022}}

2

|Santeria

|19 October 2012

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|19 October 2012|15 March 2013}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343954|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=19 October 2012|access-date=13 July 2022}}

3

|Metallico

|15 March 2013

|March Madness

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|15 March 2013|31 May 2013}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343960|title=Lucha Britannia March Madness – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=15 March 2013|access-date=13 July 2022}}

4

|Dark Brittanico

|31 May 2013

|The Super Lucha Summer Extravaganza

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|31 May 2013|18 October 2013}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343964|title=Lucha Britannia The Super Lucha Summer Extravaganza – Event @ The Bankside Vaults in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=31 May 2013|access-date=13 July 2022}}

5

|Metallico

|18 October 2013

|October Frightmare

|London, England

|2

|<1

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343972|title=Lucha Britannia October Frightmare – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=18 October 2013|access-date=13 July 2022}}

6

|Santeria

|18 October 2013

|October Frightmare

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|18 October 2013|29 November 2013}}

|

|

7

|Anteios

|29 November 2013

|I Was Santa's Love Slave

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|29 November 2013|21 March 2014}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343974|title=Lucha Britannia I Was Santa's Love Slave – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=29 November 2013|access-date=13 July 2022}}

8

|The Bengal Tiger

|21 March 2014

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|21 March 2014|16 May 2014}}

|align="left"|{{small|Defeated Santeria for the vacant title.}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=330935|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=21 March 2014|access-date=13 July 2022}}

9

|Dark Britannico

|16 May 2014

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|16 May 2014|20 June 2014}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343981|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=16 May 2014|access-date=13 July 2022}}

10

|Glamsexico

|20 June 2014

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|20 June 2014|15 August 2014}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343984|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=20 June 2014|access-date=13 July 2022}}

11

|Leon Britannico

|15 August 2014

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|15 August 2014|31 October 2014}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=343984|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=15 August 2014|access-date=13 July 2022}}

12

|Santeria

|31 October 2014

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|3

|{{age in days|31 October 2014|16 January 2015}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=344025|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=31 October 2014|access-date=13 July 2022}}

13

|Freddie Mercurio

|16 January 2015

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|16 January 2015|17 April 2015}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=344371|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=16 January 2015|access-date=13 July 2022}}

14

|Santeria

|17 April 2015

|April’s Atonement

|London, England

|4

|{{age in days|17 April 2015|19 June 2015}}

|align="left"|{{small|This was a three-way match, also involving Metallico.}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=344374|title=Lucha Britannia April's Atonement – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=17 April 2015|access-date=13 July 2022}}

15

|Cassius

|19 June 2015

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|19 June 2015|20 November 2015}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=345952|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=19 June 2015|access-date=13 July 2022}}

16

|Fug

|20 November 2015

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|20 November 2015|18 December 2015}}

|align="left"|{{small|This was a three-way match, also involving Santeria.}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=345960|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=20 November 2015|access-date=13 July 2022}}

17

|Cassius

|18 December 2015

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|18 December 2015|8 January 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=345961|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=18 December 2015|access-date=13 July 2022}}

18

|Freddie Mercurio

|8 January 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|8 January 2016|15 January 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=346315|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=8 January 2016|access-date=13 July 2022}}

19

|Cassius

|15 January 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|3

|{{age in days|15 January 2016|18 March 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=346316|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=15 January 2016|access-date=13 July 2022}}

20

|La Diablesa Rosa

|18 March 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|18 March 2016|19 August 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=346321|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=18 March 2016|access-date=13 July 2022}}

21

|Lord Reginald Windsor

|19 August 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|19 August 2016|21 October 2016}}

|

|

22

|Jerry Bakewell

|21 October 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|21 October 2016|18 November 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|title=Jerry Bakewell is our new Lucha Britannia world champion!|url=https://twitter.com/LuchaBritannia/status/789839553414762497|via=Twitter|accessdate=22 October 2016|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411101202/https://twitter.com/LuchaBritannia/status/789839553414762497|archivedate=11 April 2018}}

23

|Malik

|18 November 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|18 November 2016|16 December 2016}}

|

|{{cite web|title=Last night marked the start of a new era in @luchabritannia...|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BM_a5wIBrZg/|via=Instagram|accessdate=22 November 2016|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411101202/https://www.instagram.com/p/BM_a5wIBrZg/|archivedate=11 April 2018}}

24

|Cassius

|16 December 2016

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|4

|{{age in days|16 December 2016|20 January 2017}}

|

|{{cite web|title=Cassius the neon explosion is the new and now 4 time @LuchaBritannia world champion #|url=https://twitter.com/LuchaBritannia/status/809907281248788481|via=Instagram|accessdate=19 January 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142408/https://twitter.com/LuchaBritannia/status/809907281248788481|archivedate=2 February 2017}}

25

|La Diablesa Rosa

|20 January 2017

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|20 January 2017|21 April 2017}}

|

|

26

|Hombre Del Rocka

|21 April 2017

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|21 April 2017|16 June 2017}}

|

|

27

|La Diablesa Rosa

|16 June 2017

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|3

|{{age in days|16 June 2017|18 August 2017

}

|

|

|-

!28

|Pavo Real

|18 August 2017

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|18 August 2017|19 January 2018}}

|

|

|-

!29

|La Diablesa Rosa

|19 January 2018

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|4

|{{age in days|19 January 2018|20 July 2018}}

|

|

|-

!30

|Jerry Bakewell

|20 July 2018

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|20 July 2018|21 September 2018}}

|

|

|-

!31

|Fug

|21 September 2018

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|21 September 2018|15 February 2019}}

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=243446|title=Lucha Britannia – Event @ Resistance Gallery in London, England, UK|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=Cagematch – The Internet Wrestling Database|date=21 September 2018|access-date=13 July 2022}}

|-

!32

|Triffidos

|15 February 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|15 February 2019|01 June 2019}}

|

|

|-

!33

|El Ray Anansie

|1 June 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|01 June 2019|01 June 2019}}

|

|

|-

!34

|Triffidos

|1 June 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|01 June 2019|27 July 2019}}

|

|

|-

!35

|El Ray Anansie

|27 July 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|27 July 2019|28 July 2019}}

|

|

|-

!36

|Triffidos

|28 July 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|28 July 2019|16 October 2019}}

|

|

|-

!37

|Hanuman

|16 October 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|16 October 2019|15 November 2019}}

|

|

|-

!38

|Cara Noir (Pava Real)

|15 November 2019

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|15 November 2019|17 January 2020}}

|

|

|-

!39

|Disco Diablo

|17 January 2020

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|17 January 2020|13 July 2023}}

|

|

|-

!40

|Bradford W. Bush

|13 July 2023

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|13 July 2023|23 November 2023}}

|First match after the Pandemic

|

|-

!41

|Marduk Malik

|23 November 2023

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|2

|{{age in days|23 November 2023|22 March 2024}}

|

|

|-

!42

|Bullito

|22 March 2024

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|1

|{{age in days|22 March 2024|22 March 2024}}

|Champion for only eight minutes!

|

|-

!43

|La Diablesa Rosa

|22 March 2024

|Lucha Britannia

|London, England

|5

|{{age in days|22 March 2024|}}+

|}

See also

{{Portal|United Kingdom}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.luchabritannia.com/}}

{{Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom}}

{{coord missing|London}}

Category:British professional wrestling promotions

Category:Lucha libre

Category:2006 establishments in England