Stevie Knight is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on February 4, 1976 in Grimsby, England, United Kingdom. Knight was the regional promoter for numerous FWA performances in Cleethorpes’ Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes from 2003 until 2006.
Knight worked with the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) from 2003 to 2006. On 2 August 2003, Knight – who had recently made a comeback to the ring after injury – won the FWA Tag Team Championship with Alex Shane at the Dome in Morecambe. The title reign was short-lived as Knight and Shane dropped the belts back to The Family two days later at his home ground of Cleethorpes.
In 2000, he cut back on wrestling schedule due to a neck injury suffered in the US when the ring collapsed after a move of the top rope. Knight needed surgery to remove fragment of bones from his spinal column. In April 2000, he opened up the “Steve Knight School of Wrestling”. In June 2003, after having intense physical therapy returned to wrestling with numerous promoters and was soon wrestling 3 – 4 times a week for numerous British promoters and was crowned BCW Champion on 5 December 2003 in Kilmarnock, by defeating Drew Galloway, who was declared champion the same night.
The year 1999 was the first time he was a wrestler for British broadcasting as part of the Ultimate Wrestling Alliance (UWA) The first nationally telecast wrestling program in Britain in more than 10 years. He also was named the UWA Television champion in June that year. He also wrestled in a match for UWA in a three-way match with Doug Williams and Kerry Cabrero. In his home country of the United States of America for 12 weeks from late 1999, securing additional bookings, as well as an offer to working at Puerto Rico. While in America was an instructor in The Jimmy Valiant wrestling camp.
At the end of 1997 Knight traveled to Germany and France as well as a tour of Europe and the Middle East. In the next year, he was working for a variety of promoters on a permanent basis. He also made the short trip to Belgium.
Knight became a regular with the FWA as a heel, appearing at Hotwired 2003 and as a guest ring announcer at FWA British Uprising 2 on 18 October 2003, where he insulted female wrestler Nikita. This led to false speculation that Knight was the wrestler who had placed a bounty on Nikita’s head. They had a one-on-one match in Morecambe on 29 May 2004, which he lost by clean pinfall.
