European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship

The European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship was a Greco-Roman

Greco-Roman wrestling

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professional wrestling championship

Championship (professional wrestling)

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contested for throughout the continent of Europe

Europe

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. The title existed from 1894 through 1905.

The final champion Georg Hackenschmidt

Georg Hackenschmidt

Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt was an early 20th-century Estonian strongman and professional wrestler, and the first free-style heavyweight champion of the world. He launched his professional career in Russia and lived most of his life in London, England, where he gained the nickname of 'The...

defeated American Heavyweight Champion

American Heavyweight Championship

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, Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins

Thomas Wayne Jenkins is an American golfer.Jenkins was born in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Houston, where he was a member of the winning 1970 NCAA Division I golf team. He graduated in 1971 and turned professional. His only PGA Tour victory was the 1975 IVB-Philadelphia Golf...

, on May 5, 1905 in New York City, New York to unify both titles and become the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.

Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date Won:	Location:	Notes:
Tom Cannon Tom Cannon Tom Cannon is Professor of Strategic Development at the University of Liverpool Management School. He is considered to be an expert on Sports finance, economics and business notably professional sports like soccer, F1, cricket, rugby , tennis, horse-racing, American football and is often featured...	1	August 22, 1894	Liverpool, England Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...	Defeated Tom McInerney to become the first champion.
Karl Abs Karl Abs Karl Abs was a German professional wrestler. He won the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship in 1894, a year before his death at the age of 44. His cause of death is unknown.Also known as "The German Oak"....	1	September 5, 1894	Hamburg, Germany Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
Ernest Roeber Ernest Roeber Ernest Roeber was a German-American professional wrestler who held the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship in 1894 to 1900 and again in 1900 to 1901. It is believed that the newsreel of his 1901 match against August Faust at the old Madison Square Garden is shown briefly in the current...	1	September 26, 1894	Hamburg, Germany	Awarded.
Beck Olsen	1	March 28, 1900	New York City, New York New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Ernest Roeber	2	September 12, 1900	Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
Title vacated	-	1901		The title was vacated.
Tom Cannon	2	May 3, 1901	London, England London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...	Defeated Antonio Pierre for the vacant title.
Georg Hackenschmidt Georg Hackenschmidt Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt was an early 20th-century Estonian strongman and professional wrestler, and the first free-style heavyweight champion of the world. He launched his professional career in Russia and lived most of his life in London, England, where he gained the nickname of 'The...	1	September 4, 1902	Liverpool, England
Title retired		May 5, 1905	New York City, New York	Hackenschmidt defeats American Heavyweight Champion American Heavyweight Championship The American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship was the first Heavyweight professional wrestling championship in the United States. The title existed from 1881 through approximately 1922.-Title history:-References:* at Wrestling-Titles.com... Tom Jenkins Tom Jenkins Thomas Wayne Jenkins is an American golfer.Jenkins was born in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Houston, where he was a member of the winning 1970 NCAA Division I golf team. He graduated in 1971 and turned professional. His only PGA Tour victory was the 1975 IVB-Philadelphia Golf... to unify the two titles and become the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.

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