Marty Jones is an English retired professional wrestler best known for his work in Joint Promotions and All Star Wrestling throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
21 Facts About Marty Jones
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Marty Jones made his wrestling debut in 1972 as an 18-year-old.
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Marty Jones won his first singles championship on 12 November 1976 when he defeated "Rollerball" Mark Rocco for the British Light Heavyweight Championship.
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Marty Jones held the British Commonwealth tag team titles with a young Steve Wright in the late-1970s.
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Marty Jones's semifinal opponent in the tournament was a young Bret Hart.
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Marty Jones would go on to win this title several times trading it back and forth with Dave "Fit" Finlay on several occasions.
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Marty Jones lost the title to Wright who was billed as being "Bull Blitzer" from Germany.
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Marty Jones faced Tiger Mask on 8 October 1982 and participated in two tag team matches alongside well-known international names in early 1983.
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In one Marty Jones teamed with The Masked Superstar against Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami and the other saw him team with Rusher Kimura against Hulk Hogan and Inoki.
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Marty Jones partnered with Andre the Giant in a further bout.
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Marty Jones wrestled in Germany for one of the biggest companies in Europe at the time, the Catch Wrestling Association.
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Marty Jones 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.
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Marty Jones defeated Tony St Clair for the British Heavyweight Championship in 1996.
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Also in 1996, Marty Jones teamed up with Peter Collins on 1 February to defeat the "Liverpool Lads" for the vacant British Open Tag Team Championship before retiring later that year.
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Marty Jones later returned to finally lose his World Mid Heavyweight title to "Legend of Doom" Johnny South on 27 May 1999 in Bristol.
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In 2000 he feuded with masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki due to his dissatisfaction with the latter winning a "Wrestler of the Millennium" trophy which Marty Jones felt he should have won.
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Marty Jones was featured heavily in Ray Robinson's autobiography, The Sheriff, released in 2013.
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Marty 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.
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Marty Jones is a trainer at Grapple Wrestling, a Leeds-based wrestling promotion.
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Marty Jones is a trainer at The Squared Circle Academy, based in Royton, Oldham.
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Marty Jones regularly makes appearances at the Skegness based promotion, Lion Wrestling Promotions.