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| Acronym | ASW |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 1970 |
| Style | British wrestling (Mountevans rules) |
| Headquarters | Birkenhead, England |
| Founder(s) | Brian Dixon |
| Owner(s) | Joseph Allmark |
| Formerly | All Star Promotions Big Time Wrestling Super Slam Wrestling Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead |
| Website | linktr.ee/allstarwrestlinguk |
All Star Wrestling (ASW), also known as Super Slam Wrestling (SSW), is a British professional wrestling promotion founded by Brian Dixon in 1970 and based in Birkenhead, England. Founded as Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead in October 1970, it has also been known over the years as All Star Promotions and Big Time Wrestling. ASW tours theatres, leisure centres, town halls, holiday camps, and similar venues, many of which are the same locations that were used for televised wrestling in the UK from the 1950s to the 1980s.
ASW is the oldest active wrestling promotion in the UK and the longest-running British promotion in history,[1] a record it has held since September 2013 when it eclipsed the 42 years and 11 months tenure of Joint Promotions (1952–1995). It is also the fourth oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence in the world, after the Mexican promotion CMLL (founded 1933), WWE (founded 1963)[1] and longtime US independent ECWA (founded 1967).[2]
ASW contributed to the final two years of ITV's regular televised wrestling programme in the UK in (1987 and 1988)[3][4] and some ASW matches were included on VHS and DVD compilations and repeated as part of the World of Sport programming on The Fight Network until it stopped transmission in 2008.[5] They were then repeated on the now defunct Men & Movies channel.
In July 2022, Dixon bequeathed all road management duties to his grandson Joseph Allmark (the son of wrestler Dean Allmark), while continuing to lead the company in a purely office based capacity. Dixon died 27 May 2023, leaving Allmark as sole proprietor.
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- ^ "World of Sport on the Wrestling Channel". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-02-26.