“Agricultor” Burns îl împiedică pe Charles Green

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Într-o postare recentă, Am scris despre încercarea nereușită a lui Charles Green de a-l învinge pe Evan “Strangler” Lewis in 1889. A year later, Green a avut un succes mai mare cu o altă legendă a luptei americane, Martin “Agricultor” Burns. Burns, în vârstă de 29 de ani, a fost un luptător excelent, dar nu era încă la nivelul lui Evan Lewis. Totuși, ar trebui să fie în top 10

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Lewis and Stecher Shoot One Last Time

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The Gold Dust Trio’s dominance of professional wrestling in the early to mid-1920s bred lots of resentment with other wrestlers and promoters. This professional jealousy led to a famous double-cross in 1925. From this time on, the world title was disputed as Joe Stecher held one version, while Ed “Strangler” Lewis held the other version. Due to the real resentment

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Charles Green Preps pentru Evan Lewis

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Charles Green, un luptător englez iscusit cu prindere, a călătorit în Statele Unite la sfârșitul anilor 1880 pentru a lupta cu cei mai buni luptători americani. Green a avut ocazia în iulie 21, 1889, când s-a luptat cu campionul american Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch-Can Evan Lewis. Pentru a se pregăti pentru acest meci, Green s-a confruntat cu un handicap cu luptătorul de luptă Bert Scheller la sfârșitul lunii iunie. S-a născut Scheller

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Ketchel Starches Sullivan

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Mike “Twin” Sullivan claimed the Welterweight World Boxing Championship, when he decisioned Honey Mellody in April 1907. Possessing both heavy hands and better than normal boxing skills, Sullivan claimed victories over the great Joe Gans and future Welterweight World Boxing Champion Harry Lewis during his career. Lewis won the welterweight title, when Sullivan could no longer make the 147 pound

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Jenkins’ and Beell’s Closed Door Match

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Tom Jenkins had the distinction of being the only wrestler to defeat Frank Gotch multiple times. Jenkins and Gotch traded the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship between 1902 și 1906. At the time of this match, Jenkins was the champion again. Fred Beell had been campaigning for a match with Jenkins for the past several months. Beell finally convinced Jenkins to

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Little Demon Wrestles Tom Cannon

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On Joe Acton’s 33rd birthday, Martie 8, 1885, he wrestled fellow countryman Tom Cannon in a 2-out-of-3-falls match at Sportsman Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. Acton and Cannon had a long history together. Both men were born in England in early 1952. Cannon was born a month later than Acton on April 19, 1852. Both men started wrestling in the

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Ketchel Fights Light Heavy Champ

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1909 saw Stanley Ketchel continue his torrid pace through all the top fighters around the middleweight limit. In March 1909, Ketchel faced a rare challenge, when he fought reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. O’Brien was a slick boxer, who used his speed and elusiveness to pummel Ketchel in the early rounds. Despite O’Brien’s size advantage, Ketchel was

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“Toots” Mondt’s Injured in 1922

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Joseph “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally from the early 1910s through the 1930s but he made his real mark as a booker, booking agent and promoter. While Ed “Strangler” Lewis considered Mondt his equal in a legitimate wrestling match, Mondt has a genius for creating angles and finishes in worked wrestling exhibitions. Mondt would join Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow

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