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Les Thornton (born April 9, 1934) is a retired British professional wrestler who competed in Japan, European and North American regional promotions throughout the 1970s and 1980s including Stampede Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance. During his career, he was considered one of the best junior heavyweights in the world at one time simultaneously holding both the WWF and NWA World Junior Heavyweight titles, and would later hold NWA title five times. He had tormendous matches against Tiger Mask, K J Anderssen, Alberto Madrill and Tatsumi Fuginami. As a result of the hostile takeover by the WWF of Georgia Championship Wrestling, Thornton joined the WWF, but in the "Hogan Era" as it stood, Thornton was used as a jobber. Near the end of his career, he formed his own promotion in Calgary called Canadian Independent Wrestling Federation (CIWF), which included wrestlers like Ricky Fuji and Big Titan, among others. A master of mat wrestling, Thornton also delivered forearm uppercuts, suplexes and piledrivers. Thornton is slated to appear in a documentary about the life of fellow Briton Chris Adams in ''The Gentleman's Choice'', where he is famous for mentioning that some of his friends who left England to compete in the United States "came home in a box (Adams and Davey Boy Smith), in a wheelchair (Tom Billington, aka The Dynamite Kid) or as drug addicts (all three aforementioned wrestlers)." ==Championships and accomplishments== *Championship Wrestling from Florida : *NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *Georgia Championship Wrestling : *NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tony Charles *Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling : *NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *Middle Atlantic States Wrestling : *MASW National Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *National Wrestling Alliance : *NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)1 *NWA Big Time Wrestling : *NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tony Charles *NWA Hollywood Wrestling : *NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *NWA Mid-America : *NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *NWA New Zealand : *NWA British Empire Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship ''(New Zealand version)'' (1 time) *Pacific Northwest Wrestling : *NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Moondog Mayne *Southeastern Championship Wrestling : *NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *Stampede Wrestling : *Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship (1 time) : *Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (2 times) : *Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame *World Wrestling Council : *WWC World Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 time) *Pro Wrestling Illustrated : *PWI ranked him # 320 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003 1Records are unclear as to where Thorton was when he received the title for the first time nor is it known as to which NWA affiliated promotion he was wrestling for at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Les Thornton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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