Combat kev ua si Historian thiab Martial Artist
Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragically, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match
One of the legendary tales about Joe Stecher concerns a legitimate contest he had with one of Martin “Ua teb” Burns wrestlers, when Stecher was barely out of high school. Burns heard about Stecher’s growing reputation and decided to test him with one of his wrestlers. Lub xyoo, I thought Stecher defeated Yusif Mahmout but he actually wrestled Yussif Hussane. Tus
Edwin Bibby thiab Duncan C. Ross tsim tus thawj pom tau hais tias kev wrestling championship hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas rau lub ib hlis ntuj 19, 1881. Cov txiv neej wrestled catch-as-catch-can style rau cov American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon yog lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Champion raws li nws swb ntawm Thiebaud Bauer hauv 1880. Andre Christol coj lub ntiaj teb npe rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “tua”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Ua ntej lub creation ntawm lub territorial lawv nyob rau hauv 1948, Pro wrestling promoters fought nrog sib los tswj lub ntiaj teb championship. Promoting lub ntiaj teb tau zus ib coj mus loj rooj vag, Li ntawd, feem ntau promoters xav tswj lub championship. Hauv lub 1930s, promoters yuav nkag mus rau hauv agreements nrog sib tab sis lawv feem ntau fleeting. Thaum ib promoter tau offended, xav
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 19, 1935, Kev wrestler Ray Steele ntsib professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky hauv ib mixed wresting versus boxing bout. Lub xeev Missouri Ncaws Commission tsim tshwj xeeb txoj cai tshwj xeeb rau ntais ntawv. Tus commissioners kav lub bout yuav consist ntawm peb-feeb rounds xws li ib boxing match. Tus commissioners pub Levinsky punch txawm tias nws nyob rau ntawm qhov mat. Steele yuav
Nyob rau hauv 1899, Martin “Ua teb” Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv lub luag hauj lwm ntawm part-time wrestler thiab full-time trainer. Yog ib yam ntawm nws cov miv nyuas nto moo tshaj plaws yuav Frank Gotch, Leej twg Burns tua yeej ib lub lis piam tom qab ntais ntawv no match. Kub yus yog kub yus 38 Xyoo thiab tau poob nws American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship ob xyoos lawm. Kub yus blended ob cwj pwm rau ib tug tibneeg hu tauj coob heev hlis ntuj nqeg rau
Leej twg yog tus loj tshaj tseeb wrestler wrestle hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas? How do you determine it when wrestlers “ua haujlwm” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 thiab 1915
William Hayes Shaw, Leej twg wrestled li Pat O'Shocker los ntawm feem ntau ntawm nws cov hauj lwm wrestling, Nrhiav tau nws tus kheej hauv qhov tsom teeb nyob rau hauv qhov tsom teeb 1933. O'Shocker tsis nrhiav no tsi koob meej ho. Ntawv xov xwm tau nqa ib zaj dabneeg txog li cas wrestling promoters sim siv O'Shocker nyob rau hauv ib ob-ntoo khaub lig. Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers tawm hauv New York thiab yog aligned nrog
Nyob rau hauv 1933, hais txog 10 Xyoo rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm wrestling hauj lwm, Jim Browning yuav yeej lub ntiaj teb npe. Pib nws cov hauj lwm nyob Kansas thiab nws lub xeev ntawm Missouri, Browning yuav tau tawm hauv cov chaw pib paub, Yog hais tias nws npaj kom mus zoo raws cov pinnacle ntau tshaj pinnacle hauv kev wrestling. Vim ntiaj teb Champions yuav tsum ncig xyuas teb chaws, thiab feem ntau thoob ntiaj teb, Lub npe ntiaj teb yog