Combat kev ua si Historian thiab Martial Artist
Tom Jenkins muaj cov distinction uas yog tus wrestler los swb Frank Gotch ntau zaus. Jenkins thiab Gotch hloov pauv cov American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship ntawm 1902 thiab 1906. Thaum lub sij hawm no match, Jenkins yog tus tau zus ib dua. Fred Beell twb tau campaigning rau ib match nrog Jenkins rau ob peb lub hlis dhau los. Beell thaum kawg convinced Jenkins rau
Rau Joe Acton lub hnub yug 33rd, Lub peb hlis ntuj 8, 1885, Nws wrestled koj txog haujlwm countryman Tom Cannon hauv ib 2-tawm-ntawm-3-ntog match ntawm Sportsman Park nyob New Orleans, Louisiana. Acton thiab Cannon muaj keeb kwm ntev ua ke. Leej txiv neej yug hauv hais thaum ntxov 1952. Cannon yug ib lub hlis tom qab tshaj Acton rau hnub tim 19, 1852. Leej txiv neej pib wrestling hauv lub
Earl Caddock muaj ib tug kuj luv luv tab sis storied kev wrestling hauj lwm hauv lub caij 1910s lig thiab thaum ntxov 1920s thaum ntxov. Ua nws debut debut hauv 1915 Tom qab winning peb AAU lub teb chaws lub npe hauv amateur wrestling, Caddock tsuas wrestled professionally mus txog rau thaum 1922. Txawm li cas los, Nws yuav pom tau hais tias raws li ntiaj teb tau zus ib tom qab defeating Joe Stecher nyob rau lub plaub hlis 1917. Caddock yuav poob lub npe rov qab
1909 Pom Stanley Ketchel tseem nws torrid pace los ntawm tag nrho cov fighters nyob ib ncig ntawm tus middleweight txwv. Nyob rau hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 1909, Ketchel muag ib tug tsis tshua muaj kev sib tw, Thaum nws fought reigning ntiaj teb teeb Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. O'Brien yog ib tug slick boxer, Uas siv nws ceev thiab elusiveness los pummel Ketchel nyob rau hauv cov rounds thaum ntxov. Dua li ntawm O'Brien tus loj kom zoo dua, Ketchel yog
Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally ntawm cov 1910s thaum ntxov los ntawm cov 1930s, tiam sis nws ua nws kos tiag li ib booker, booking tus neeg saib xyuas thiab promoter. Thaum Ed “Strangler” Lewis pom tias Mondt nws sib npaug zos nyob rau hauv ib tseeb wrestling match, Mondt muaj ib tug ntse heev rau tsim angles thiab finishes ua haujlwm wrestling exhibitions. Mondt yuav koom Lewis thiab nws tus thawj tswj Billy Sandow
lig 1921 mus 1923, John Contos nce kev wrestling hauv St. Louis, Missouri. Txawm li cas los, Contos txiav txim siab tawm qib siab rau tswj cov hauj lwm ntawm budding lone Dan Kolov. Ua ntej yuav tawm hauv St. Louis, Contos muag cov qib rau Tom Packs, Nws tus kwv tub thiab pab nyob rau hauv cov qib. packs’ Thawj daim card yog teem rau hnub Friday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 4, 1924.
Thaum tawm tswv yim stanislaus Zbyszko lub npe reign ntawm 1921 mus 1922, Yog vim li cas thiaj muab rau kev noj lub npe ntawm nws yog tias nws lub npe reign yog ib qhov chaw ua hauj lwm tsis ua hauj lwm. Ua cov zauv validate no ntseeg? Ua ntej yuav yeej lub championship, Zbyszko wrestled qub tau zus ib Joe Stecher ntawm lub 71st Regiment Armory pem lub taub hau 7,000 kiv cua. Nyob rau hauv 1915, tus
Thaum William Muldoon txijnkawm li lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion hauv 1889, Muaj tug tsis npaj successor rau lub championship. Evan “Strangler” Lewis yog qhov zoo wrestler nyob hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas tsis hu ua William Muldoon tab sis nws specialty yog catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Qhov zoo Tshaj Plaws American Greco-Roman wrestler, Clarence Whistler, Tuag nyob Australia thaum 1885. Muldoon tus handpicked successor yog German-yug
Joe Stecher pib tawm 1915, Ib fateful xyoo rau nws cov hauj lwm, Muaj ib tug yeej nyob Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled nyob rau hauv lub npe Otto Carpenter rau ntais ntawv no tab sis yog paub tias kev wrestling kiv cua li Ad Santel. Santel muaj ib lub koob npe nrov deserved rau ib vicious “hooker”, Ib wrestler skilled hauv submission tuas. Stecher yog ib tug 22 xyoo Nebraskan, leej twg ua
Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled 175,000 tseeb wrestling qhov yuam kev nrog Joseph “Toots” Mondt xyoo. Thaum sib tham nrog nws cov protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis hais tias nws tsuas yuav tsum txhawj txog poob rau ob wrestlers nyob rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm ntev. Tsuas Mondt thiab Stanislaus Zbyszko muaj sij hawm uas defeating nws nyob hauv ib contest tseeb contest. One