The British (Open) Tag Team Championship is the top
tag team
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championship
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Championship systems
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Title match system
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contested for throughout the
British wrestling
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circuit. It is currently being contested for in Brian Dixon's
All Star Wrestling
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.
Although the title was created just after the end of regular wrestling coverage on
ITV
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ITV
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, nonetheless it has changed hands on national UK television, as footage Steve Prince and Vic Powers' victory over Liverpool Lads
Robbie Brookside
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and
Doc Dean
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was included on Brookside's episode of Video Diaries on
BBC2
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Simon Garfield
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Biography
Garfield was born in London in 1960.The Wrestling'' published by
Faber and Faber
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Simon Garfield
Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960) is a British journalist and non-fiction author.
Biography
Garfield was born in London in 1960.The Wrestling'' Faber and Faber 1996 reprinted 2007
Many versions of the British Tag Team Titles exist in the
independent circuit
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of the
United Kingdom
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at any given time but the scene is usually dominated by one companies version. When another company becomes dominant the title often manages to unify itself or is brought into that company.
Current champions
"Chippendale"
Mikey Whiplash
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and new partner, Robbie Dynamite defeated the UK Dream Team ( Kid Cool and Dean "2 Xtreme" Allmark) on 25 February 2006 in Staffordshire to win the titles and were defended as recently as April 2009.
Title history
See also
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Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom
Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom spans over one hundred years but became popular when the then new independent television network ITV began showing it in 1955, firstly on Saturday afternoons and then also in a late-night midweek slot. I ...