LDN Wrestling

LDN Wrestling is a British Professional wrestling promotion run by Sanjay Bagga. It was founded in November 2004 and is based in London. Bagga's promotion tours theatres, leisure centres and town halls all over Great Britain.

History

LDN Wrestling was founded in November 2004 by lifelong wrestling fan Sanjay Bagga. The aim of the company was to build a brand that could tour the country under the LDN name. Bagga's stated mission for the promotion is to "put the 'British' back in 'British wrestling.'"

LDN toured mostly London based venues until March 2007 when it signed a television deal with The Wrestling Channel. Its two year span on the channel remains the longest running British wrestling television show to have been launched after the end of regular British wrestling on ITV in 1988.

Key moments in LDN Capital TV's show have included a contest in which ten time former World Lightweight champion Johnny Saint, also known as "the man of 1,000 holds" and a former 10-time lightweight champion of the world, came out of retirement and defeated fellow British wrestling veteran, Johnny Kidd and a feud pitting legendary masked star Kendo Nagasaki against then-champion Yorghos. LDN also established its own stars such as “Notorious” Jon Ritchie, who dominated the promotion for over two years, as well as Alan Lee Travis and the “Peckham Playboy” Hakan, both of whom have held titles with LDN.

Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (occasionally more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems.

The term wrestling is attested in late Old English, as wræstlunge (glossing palestram).

History

Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. Literary references to it occur as early as in the Iliad, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War of the 13th or 12th century BC. The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds known in the present-day sport.

Wrestling (2008 film)

Wrestling is a 2008 romantic drama about teenagers growing up in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Wrestling (1961 film)

Wrestling (Original French title: La lutte) is a 1961 documentary film about professional wrestling in Montreal, co-directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra.

Wrestling was shot in the Montreal Forum, where major bouts were staged, as well as wrestling parlors where would be wrestlers learned and practiced their craft.

The filmmakers had intended to make a film exposing, in slow motion, the fakery of professional wrestling, until a chance encounter with French philosopher Roland Barthes changed their minds. Barthes was appalled by what they were planning to do, and spoke urgently about the beauty and social role of pro wrestling in the lives of ordinary people. Persuaded by Barthes, the filmmakers set out to make a film that captured the spectacle of the sport, without judging it.

The film shows the wrestling arena to be a sort of modern day shrine, with wrestling and its rituals taking the place of religion in the then-recently secularized Quebec.

LDN

LDN is a mobile phone abbreviation for London. It can also refer to:

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LDN (song)

"LDN" (shorthand for, and pronounced as, "London") is a song by English recording artist Lily Allen. It was co-written by Future Cut, and features a Colombian porro from the country's Caribbean coast. The song was originally released on strictly limited edition 7" vinyl (500 copies) in the UK on 24 April 2006, accompanied by album track "Knock 'Em Out", and was re-released in September following the huge success of Allen's first mainstream single "Smile".

The re-release peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart. The song is used in the soundtrack of the film The Nanny Diaries, and in the trailer for Happy-Go-Lucky. This song was number 30 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. In 2008 the song was included in the soundtrack of the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky. Allen claims that the inspiration for the song was William Wordsworth's poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".

Background

Regal Records gave Allen £25,000 in 2005, when she signed to the label, a fact which she considered to be a "small development idea". The money was to produce an album, though they were unable to provide much support for it due to their preoccupation with other releases. Taking advice from Lady Sovereign, Allen created an account on MySpace and began posting demos in November 2005. By March 2006, they attracted thousands of listeners, and 500 limited edition 7" vinyl singles of one of the demos, a song titled "LDN", were rush-released and sold for as much as £40, thus the song becoming her first actual single.