Marty Jones
Marty Jones | |
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Born | Oldham, England | 26 September 1954
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Marty Jones |
Trained by | Billy Robinson Ted Betley |
Debut | 1972 |
Retired | 2003 |
Marty Jones is an
Professional wrestling career
Jones was trained by Ted Betley[
Jones made his wrestling debut in 1972 as an 18-year-old.
On 8 November 1982 he defeated Bobby Gaetano for the World Mid-Heavyweight Championship left vacant by the death of Mike Marino the previous year. His semifinal opponent in the tournament was a young Bret Hart. As a result of this win, Jones vacated his British Light Heavyweight title after six years as undefeated champion.[4] Jones would go on to win this title several times trading it back and forth with Dave "Fit" Finlay on several occasions. He also lost the title to Wright who was billed as being "Bull Blitzer" from Germany (kayfabe)[5]
During the early 1980s Jones also wrestled for
Jones also wrestled in Germany for one of the biggest companies in Europe at the time, the Catch Wrestling Association. He teamed with his old in-ring foe Finlay to win the CWA tag titles from Tony St. Clair and Mile Zrno on 23 June 1990.[6]
In All Star Wrestling, Jones became a heel in the early 1990s. He defeated Tony St Clair for the British Heavyweight Championship in 1996.[7] Also in 1996, Jones teamed up with Peter Collins on 1 February to defeat the "Liverpool Lads" (Rob Brookside and "Doc" Dean) for the vacant British Open Tag Team Championship before retiring later that year. He later returned to finally lose his World Mid Heavyweight title to "Legend of Doom" Johnny South on 27 May 1999 in Bristol.[5] In 2000 he feuded with masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki due to his dissatisfaction with the latter winning a "Wrestler of the Millennium" trophy which Jones felt he should have won.[8]
Jones was featured heavily in Ray Robinson's autobiography, The Sheriff, released in 2013.[9]
Jones made a special guest appearance at GL1 Gloucester Leisure Centre October 2013 and in Dundee for Scottish Wrestling Entertainment on 29 and 30 November.
Jones is now a trainer at Grapple Wrestling, a Leeds-based wrestling promotion. Jones is now a trainer at The Squared Circle Academy, based in Royton, Oldham. As a trainer he has been responsible for training Luke Menzies and in recent years mentored multiple members of the NXT UK roster along with scores of other UK and international talents. Jones regularly makes appearances at the Skegness based promotion, Lion Wrestling Promotions.
Championships and accomplishments
- British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- British Open Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Danny Collins
- Fit Finlay
- Joint Promotions
- World Mid-Heavyweight Championship (7 times)
- British Light Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
Further reading
- ISBN 978-1628471625.
References
- ^ "ProWrestling.com".
- ^ a b "Lancashire's World Class Lion". Wrestling Heritage.
- ^ "British Light-Heavyweight Title".
- ^ a b "British Heavy-Middleweight Title".
- ^ a b "World Mid-Heavyweight Title".
- ^ "Catch Wrestling Association World Tag Team Title".
- ^ "British Heavyweight".
- ^ "A New Millennium With Kendo Nagasaki's spectacular appearances..." kendonagasaki.org. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ Ramzan, Iram (27 August 2013). "Marty helps Ray's book to be a forearm smash". Oldham Evening Chronicle. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2023.