The European Heavyweight Championship is a top title

Championship (professional wrestling)

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 competed for throughout the European Union

European Union

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's professional wrestling

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 circuit.

The title would be defended in many promotions in Europe, and other versions of this one title also appeared in certain promotions. On August 25, 2001 the European Wrestling Union produced a European Heavyweight Championship tournament in Bochum

Bochum

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, Germany

Germany

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, bringing in wrestlers some of whom claimed to already be the Champion. This tournament saw these titles merge into one with Britain's Robbie Brookside

Robbie Brookside

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 confirming his claim as champion by defeating 5 Star Cory K in a championship decider.

The title history below shows all the holders of the title in chronological order. However, there are instances where another wrestler has taken the role of champion, or claimed the title but no official title change was recorded (these are noted with "unknown title history", or other details.)

European Union Heavyweight Championship History

Wrestler:	Reigns:	Date:	Place:	Notes:
Heinrich Froehner	1
Atholl Oakeley Atholl Oakeley Atholl Oakeley, or Sir Edward Atholl Oakeley, 7th Baronet of Shrewsbury was a heavyweight wrestler and author. Born in Rhoscolyn, Anglesey he was the eldest of four children, a son of Sir Charles Richard Andrew Oakeley, 6th Baronet and Everilde Anne Beaumont...	1	1932
Heinrich Froehner	2	1933
Karl Pojello	1	1933	Nottingham Nottingham Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group... , Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
Henri Deglane Henri Deglane Henri Deglane was a French wrestler. He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and a world champion professional wrestler.-Olympics:...	1	April 1934
Dan Koloff	1	April 7, 1934	Paris, France
Henri Deglane	2			Unknown title history.
Al Pereira	1	July 1937	Paris, France
Dan Koloff	2	1937
Al Pereira	2	1937
Dan Koloff	3	1937		Unknown title history.
Felix Lamban	1	1940s		Lamban holds the title during several shows.
Victorio Ochoa	1	1940s		Unknown title history.
Yvar Martinson	1	1949
Felxi Miquet	1	November 8, 1949	Paris, France	Unknown title history.
Jack Dale Jack Dale -External links:...	1
Jose Tarres	1	August 28, 1948	Barcelona, Spain	Unknown title history.
Bert Assirati Bert Assirati Bartolomeo Esserati , also known as Bert Assirati, was an English professional wrestler who became a multiple time British Heavyweight Champion, and, posthumously, a member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame...	1	1949
Vacant		August 1952		After Assirati left for India.
Shirley Crabtree Shirley Crabtree Shirley Crabtree, Jr, better known as Big Daddy was a British professional wrestler famous for his record-breaking 64 inch chest...	1	1952		Crabtree defeated Yvar Martinson for the vacant title.
Joe Robinson Joe Robinson Joe Robinson is an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His brother is also a stuntman and actor, Doug Robinson The Robinson's were a famous family of wrestlers, Joe's father and grandfather were world champions....	1	1952
Vicente Febrer	1	1952		Unknown title history.
Milo Popocopolis	1	1961
Shirley Crabtree	2	1961		Unknown title history.
Jim Olivera	1	1961
Billy Joyce	1	1961
Bill Robinson	1	June 12, 1965	Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... , Great Britain
Vacant		1970		After Robinson left for North America.
Horst Hoffman	1	July 1971	Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
Albert Wall	1	February 4, 1974
Hans Streiger	1	1978	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , West Germany
Pete Curry		March 24, 1978	Liverpool 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... , Great Britain
Wild Angus	1	1978
Vacant		1978		Wild Angus was stripped of the title.
Hans Streiger	2
Steve Veidor Steve Veidor Steve Veidor, born 10 January 193? as Steve Bell, in Ellesmere Port, Wirral, in Cheshire, England, is a former heavyweight professional wrestler of the 1960s and 1970s, usually billed as The Handsome Heart Throb....	1	September 15, 1978	Liverpool, Great Britain
Hans Streiger	3	1979
Johnny Kincaid	1	1980	Hamburg 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... , West Germany	Unknown title history.
Wayne Bridges	1
Kwick-Kick Lee Akira Maeda is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, also known as Kwik-kik-Lee for his time on the British Wrestling show World of Sport. He helped develop the shoot-style of professional wrestling during the late 1980s....	1	January 25, 1983	London 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... , Great Britain	Unknown title history.
Pat Roach Pat Roach Francis Patrick "Pat" Roach was an English actor, wrestler and author, from Birmingham. His most famous role is that of West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He also played a memorable role as General Kael in Willow...	1	March 1990
Giant Haystacks	1	February 6, 1991	Great Britain
Pat Roach	2	1991		Unknown title history.
John Prator	1	1995		Unknown title history.
Rob Brookside	1	1999		On August 25, 2001, Bochum, Germany, Brookside confirms his claim by winning the European Wrestling Union's European Heavyweight Championship tournament.
Karl Krammer	1	October 10, 2001	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Germany	Kramer won the title after Brookside did not defend it within its 60 days ruling.
The Flatliner	1	February 1, 2002	Exmouth Exmouth, Devon Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort in East Devon, England, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe. In 2001, it had a population of 32,972.-History:... , Great Britain
Vacant		February 17, 2002		After The Flatliner breaks his leg.
Rob Brookside	2	February 19, 2002	Yeovil Yeovil Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140... , Great Britain	Brookside defeated Justin Starr in a tournament final for the vacant title.
The Flatliner	2	2003	Exeter	Won a 20-man battle royal

UEWA European Heavyweght Championship History

Wrestler:	Reigns:	Date:	Place:	Notes:
Rampage Brown	1	2010	Nordheide	Won a Tournament
Mikey Whiplash	1	2010	Hanley
James Mason	1	2010	Llanell
John Kay	1	2011	Pinneberg