Ahli Sejarah Sukan Pertempuran dan Seniman Mempertahankan Diri
Pada November 19, 1935, ahli gusti profesional Ray Steele bertemu peninju profesional Kingfish Levinsky dalam gusti campuran lawan tinju. Suruhanjaya Olahraga Negeri Missouri mencipta peraturan khas untuk perlawanan itu. Pesuruhjaya memutuskan pertarungan itu akan terdiri daripada pusingan tiga minit seperti perlawanan tinju. Pesuruhjaya membenarkan Levinsky untuk menumbuk walaupun dia berada di atas tikar. Steele boleh
Dalam 1899, Martin “Petani” Burns beralih kepada peranan ahli gusti sambilan dan jurulatih sepenuh masa. Salah seorang muridnya yang paling terkenal ialah Frank Gotch, yang Burns kalahkan seminggu selepas perlawanan ini. Burns adalah 38 tahun dan telah kehilangan Kejohanan Gusti Kelas Berat Amerika dua tahun sebelumnya. Burns menggabungkan kedua-dua peranan pada malam Disember yang sangat sibuk
Siapa ahli gusti profesional yang paling sah untuk bergusti di Amerika Syarikat? How do you determine it when wrestlers “bekerja” 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 dan 1915
William Hayes Shaw, yang bergelut sebagai Pat O'Shocker melalui kebanyakan kerjaya gustinya, mendapati dirinya dalam perhatian 1933. O'Shocker tidak mencari kemasyhuran seperti ini. Akhbar menyiarkan cerita tentang cara penganjur gusti cuba menggunakan O'Shocker dalam palang berganda yang dirancang. Joseph “Toots” Mondt menempah ahli gusti keluar dari New York dan sejajar dengannya
Dalam 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
I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. While Griffin has insider knowledge due to his time in the Buffalo promotional office in the 1930s, he wrote the book for the purpose of revenge against the promoters who fired him. The book contains factual information mixed in with interesting
James Hiram McLaughlin holds the distinction of being the first American professional wrestler. While people wrestled professionally before McLaughlin, he was the first to earn a professional living from wrestling. McLaughlin began wrestling professionally in 1860 pada 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. Oleh 1877,
In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou began wrestling as Jim Londos after several years as the gimmicky “Wrestling Plasterer”. Londos probably didn’t realize that the name change would be the first step into him becoming the biggest box office attraction in 1930s professional wrestling. The second step was his emergence as a main event wrestler in St. Louis. Born in
Pada Julai 4, 1922, Alan Eustace received his shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Eustace, the Kansas Champion, won a qualifying match with “Petani” Bailey in March 1922 to qualify for the match with Lewis. 31-year-old Eustace was the same age as “Strangler” Lewis but Lewis was far more experienced. Debuting at 14 tahun,
I was recently honored to be a guest on The Martial Culture Podcast. Coach Rene Driefuss and Matt Peters were excellent hosts. I truly enjoyed my time on their podcast. We spoke about one of my books, Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt: The Matches That Made and Destroyed Legitimate American Professional Wrestling in particular. Walau bagaimanapun, we spoke in general about the history