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On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Farmer” Burns met the small but powerful Fred Beell. While both wrestlers weighed 165 £, “Farmer” Burns stood 5’11” to Beell’s 5’04”. The 32-year-old Beell had a big age advantage over the 47-year-old Burns though. Burns debuted in 1879, when Beell was 3-years-old. The men were scheduled for a match in Omaha, Nebraska, one
Apríl 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross met Sorakichi Matsuda, also known as Matsada, the first Japanese professional wrestler in the United States. Matsuda immigrated to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler because it didn’t really exist in Japan at the time. 28-year-old Duncan Ross was born in Turkey of Scottish descent on March
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mars 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning
Og “Strangler” Lewis enjoyed one of the most successful careers in professional wrestling. Although Lewis wrestled in mostly staged exhibitions, he possessed legitimate wrestling skills. Future protege Lou Thesz said many times Lewis could beat any wrestler at any time, so he was the ideal world champion in the modern era of prearranged matches. Þó, early in his career, Lewis
At the end of December 1916, a strange event occurred. John F. Olin, a local Massachusetts wrestler, won a match with the current World Champion Joe Stecher. The referee declared Olin the winner after Stecher walked away from the match. Before the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) made changes to the rules in the 1950s, championships changed hands through disqualification or
John “Tigerman” Pesek wrestled several “shoot” matches during the “unnið” era of the 1920s. By this time, American professional wrestlers cooperated with each other to put on exciting matches for the fans. Results were predetermined by promoters and managers. Legitimate contests or “skýtur” were rare. When they did occur, it was normally to settle a dispute among promoters or a
At the end of 1905, Fred Beell var á ferðalagi um Ameríku og var að spá í leik við fyrrum bandaríska þungavigtarmeistarann Tom Jenkins.. Beell var fyrrum bandarískur þungavigtarmeistari eftir að hafa sigrað Frank Gotch í a “unnið” leik í New Orleans í desember 1903. Hann missti titilinn aftur til Gotch nokkrum vikum síðar. Hæfir glímumenn, Jenkins og Beell
Joe Stecher og John “Tígrisdýr” Pesek voru lögmætir glímumenn í a fyrst og fremst “unnið” tímum, þar sem leikir voru fyrirfram ákveðnir nema einhver hafi ákveðið að tvístíga hinn glímumanninn eða verkefnisstjórann með því að breyta leiknum í lögmæta keppni. Tvíkrossar virkuðu aðeins, ef glímumaðurinn gæti unnið leikinn með lögmætum hætti. John Pesek líkaði ekki við hið vinnandi eðli glímunnar og sneri sér oft
As the wrestler jumped off the mat, he grabbed the referee by the lapel with his good arm. “Why didn’t you stop it?” As Referee Siler tried to pull free, Duncan Ross’ seconds grabbed him and pulled him away. The men told Ross, “He can’t stop it. You have to submit.” Ross screamed, “I’m out of here.” As Ross walked
Í 1922, New York promoter Jack Curley ran afoul of the Gold Dust Trio, manager Billy Sandow, Heimsmeistari í þungavigt í glímu Ed “Strangler” Lewis and wrestler/promotional genius Joseph “Toots” Mondt. The Trio controlled the world championship and froze Curley out of booking the champion. To get even with the Trio, Curley began aggressively promoting Olympic wrestling silver medalist and collegiate