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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w5zan5/Episode_239uf6l.mp3Podcast: Ua si nyob rau hauv cov qhov rai tshiab | DownloadIn no rov, I discuss professional wrestling matches conducted under Sumo Rules in the 1880s. Update While I hate UFC merging with WWE, you do have to salute Vince McMahon selling his company for more than it’s worth. Vince also managed to stay in charge of the company. Vince McMahon won the promotional wars
Tuesday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 12, 1916, local favorite, John “Tus Nebraska Tsovman” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. Txawm li cas los, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, Thauj tw
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/spskyr/Episode_22b5y7p.mp3Podcast: Ua si nyob rau hauv cov qhov rai tshiab | DownloadIn no rov, my cousin Dan and I discuss the evolution of pro wrestling since the late 1970s and its influence on our fandom. We agreed wrestling had to change because of the emergence of cable television. One of the wrestling companies was going to go national. Although they did not necessarily have to
Nyob rau 1880s thaum ntxov, Sorakichi Matsuda, or Matsada in most American newspapers, traveled to the United States to wrestle professionally. Japan did not have a developed professional wrestling circuit, so Matsuda thought he would bring the sport back to Japan after an apprenticeship in the United States. After training for a while, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e6nq7d/Episode_21a0s9w.mp3Podcast: Ua si nyob rau hauv cov qhov rai tshiab | DownloadIn no rov, I discuss the short but impactful career of the original Terrible Turk, Yusuf Ismail. Update Endeavor recently bought World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and merged it into a company with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Merging a worked exhibition with legitimate contests may not be the great idea Endeavor envisioned. Cov ntsiab lus tseem ceeb
Oscar Wasem pib nws cov hauj lwm nyob rau hauv St. Louis, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, cov me nyuam. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, Iowa Champion. Thaum Gotch mus ua America tus loj tshaj tseeb kev wrestler, Wasem tseem nyob ib solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
Txog rau hnub Friday, Kaum ib hlis 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, California. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 hnab tawv pojniam. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mem3a8/Episode_206q4px.mp3Podcast: Ua si nyob rau hauv cov qhov rai tshiab | DownloadIn no rov, I discuss the career of Sorakichi Matsada, a 19th Century Japanese pro wrestler. Update I discuss the new podcast schedule. Hopefully, Caleb will be back with me for the next episode. I will release an episode on the second Monday of every month. If scheduling allows, a second episode will be
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Missouri. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, Kansas. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that