London Wrestling Club | Legion Wrestling

Welcome to Legion Wrestling, We are the Olympic Freestyle & Greco Roman Wrestling club for east London. Currently with over 150 members training regularly at our club, of which we have the British and English senior and Junior medalists as well as Freestyle & Greco Roman Wrestling. All our freestyle wrestling coaches are affiliated to the BWA with level 2 coaching status, All coaches are CRB checked.


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The History of Legion Wrestling

After parting ways from former partner at TEAM USB, Head Coach Amir Eslami launched Legion Wrestling.  By Gods Grace, whilst with TEAM USB, the club was very successful.  Since starting as Legion Wrestling, the new club is continuing to flourish.  Head Coach Amir has been wrestling for over 20 years and coaching for 15.  He [...]

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2011 Athletes of the Year

Wrestling Club London: 2011 Athletes of the Year

Among other projects, the World Ranking of the athletes competing in grappling, pankration and amateur MMA was established in 2011. Beside rewarding the best competitors for their overall performance at the Continental, World Championships and Grand Prix, the project also aims at feeding the media with continuous stories as the ranking unfolds during the course the [...]

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Wrestling Club Update: New Location & Time Table

There has been a slight delay in our building work so we will not be opening on the 8th January as planned. We now hope to be open mid January. Once a date is set we will be sure to let you know.

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Freestyle Wrestling London: Opening of the third FILA Center

The FILA President, Mr. Raphaël Martinetti, travelled to Qatar for the opening of the 12th Pan-Arab Games that took place in Doha from 6 till 23 December 2011. On that occasion he officially signed with the Qatar Wrestling Federation the contract for the running of the FILA Training Center for all Arab and Asian countries [...]

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Wrestling: Refereeing Department Meeting

The annual Refereeing Department meeting took place in London on 07 December 2011 before the test event for the 2012 Olympics. The Department members reviewed the videos of all challenges requested in 2011 in view of sanctioning the referees and jury members at fault. All international referees were also assessed upon analysis of the competition [...]

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Wrestling Club London: Legion Wrestling Wins Sports Achievement Award

On Wednesday 7th December 2011, an award ceremony was held at Walthamstow Assembly Hall by Waltham Forest Council of Mosques. Legion Wrestling was nominated for the Sports Achievement Award and won!  Head Coach Amir was very humbled to have recognition from the local community.  He collected the Award from Council Leader Chris Robbins along with Coach Dawud [...]

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Bec-khan Aldamov – 66KG -Team GB -LONDON WRESTLING INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL

On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th December 2011, the Olympic Test  Event took place at the Excel Centre in London.   The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and FILA were solely responsible for the organisation of this event. They have invited a select group of the world best athletes to compete in [...]


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