Author: Ken Zimmerman JR.

Naglakbay si Sorakichi Matsuda sa Estados Unidos noong huli 1883 upang simulan ang kanyang propesyonal na karera sa pakikipagbuno. Nilalayon ni Matsuda na matuto ng American professional wrestling at bumalik sa kanyang tinubuang-bayan upang simulan ang kanyang sariling wrestling promotion. Nag-claim ang manager ni Matsuda tungkol sa kanyang pagsasanay sa Japan, na hindi ma-verify. Si Matsuda ay nagsanay sa sumo wrestling kasama ang sikat na Isegahama stable ngunit nagawa nito

Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a

Sa Huwebes, Abril 10, 1884, America’s first full-time professional wrestler, J.H. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. The men wrestled a three-out-of-five falls mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled two falls under collar-and-elbow rules. Ross favored side hold rules. The men wrestled two falls by securing side

Sa Sabado, Setyembre 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Inglatera. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama