કોમ્બેટ સ્પોર્ટ્સ ઇતિહાસકાર અને માર્શલ આર્ટિસ્ટ
જો સ્ટીચર વિશેની સુપ્રસિદ્ધ વાર્તાઓમાંની એક કાયદેસરની હરીફાઈને લગતી છે જે તેણે માર્ટિનમાંથી એક સાથે કરી હતી “ખેડૂત” કુસ્તીબાજોને બાળે છે, જ્યારે સ્ટેચર ભાગ્યે જ હાઈસ્કૂલમાંથી બહાર હતો. બર્ન્સે સ્ટેચરની વધતી પ્રતિષ્ઠા વિશે સાંભળ્યું અને તેને તેના એક કુસ્તીબાજ સાથે ચકાસવાનું નક્કી કર્યું. વર્ષો સુધી, મને લાગતું હતું કે સ્ટેચરે યુસિફ મહમૌતને હરાવ્યો હતો પરંતુ તેણે વાસ્તવમાં યુસિફ હુસૈનને કુસ્તી કરી હતી. આ
એડવિન બીબી અને ડંકન સી. રોસે જાન્યુઆરીમાં યુનાઇટેડ સ્ટેટ્સમાં પ્રથમ માન્યતા પ્રાપ્ત વ્યાવસાયિક કુસ્તી ચેમ્પિયનશિપની સ્થાપના કરી 19, 1881. અમેરિકન હેવીવેઇટ રેસલિંગ ચેમ્પિયનશિપ માટે પુરુષોએ કેચ-એઝ-કેચ-કેન શૈલીમાં કુસ્તી કરી. વિલિયમ મુલ્ડૂન વર્લ્ડ હેવીવેઇટ ચેમ્પિયન હતા જે તેમની થિબાઉડ બાઉરને હારના આધારે હતા. 1880. આન્દ્રે ક્રિસ્ટોલ યુનાઇટેડ સ્ટેટ્સમાં વર્લ્ડ ટાઇટલ લાવ્યો
માર્ચ પર 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, નેવાડા. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” લેવિસ. 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 “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought
નવેમ્બર પર 19, 1935, professional wrestler Ray Steele met professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky in a mixed wresting versus boxing bout. The Missouri State Athletic Commission created special rules for the match. The commissioners ruled the bout would consist of three-minute rounds like a boxing match. The commissioners allowed Levinsky to punch even if he was on the mat. Steele could
માં 1899, માર્ટિન “ખેડૂત” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in
યુનાઇટેડ સ્ટેટ્સમાં કુસ્તી કરવા માટે સૌથી મહાન કાયદેસર વ્યાવસાયિક કુસ્તીબાજ કોણ છે? How do you determine it when wrestlers “કામ કર્યું હતું” 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 અને 1915
William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. જોસેફ “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
માં 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was