As a result, the promotion billed him as "the acknowledged king of battles royal" and promoted many of these matches as "featuring Man Mountain Mike".

Frank, 61, is the acknowledged king of Wirral allotments following his Odyssey Trophy success in the annual competition sponsored by Wirral leisure services department.

For example, Pierre Cardin, the acknowledged king of licensing, with 605 licenses worldwide, cannot be expected to design each item.

The free and independent Church bound itself in solemn allegiance to the acknowledged king; it said nothing of allegiance to the Bishop of Rome.

Rudge says that Esau Smith was the acknowledged king of the Black Patch.

Andreu was also enthusiastic about Marco Pantani, the Italian leader of Mercatone Uno, fourth-ranked and the acknowledged king of the mountains.

The church is free and independent, yet bound in solemn allegiance to the acknowledged king: nothing is said of allegiance to the bishop of Rome.

To thousands of fans, he was second only to Frank Yankovic, the acknowledged king of polka, who died in 1998.

Another important forerunner was Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre.

This realm of Dyfnaint may have been loosely organised under an acknowledged "high king" who was perhaps the direct ruler of the largest portion of it.