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Posts about 19th Century professional wrestlers and matches.
Txog hnub plaub, Lub peb hlis ntuj 31, 1881, 200 fans filtered into New York’s Turnverein Hall to watch Clarence Whistler wrestle Henry Moses Dufur in a three-out-of-five-falls catch-as-catch-can wrestling match with both wrestlers wearing jackets. The promoters used the rules and jackets to even the chances of each wrestler to win. Clarence Whistler specialized in Greco-Roman wrestling. Whistler took World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
D. IB. McMillan served as a competent journeyman wrestler during the last two decades of the 19th Century. McMillan wrestled American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns in a worked gambling scheme that a newspaper reporter exposed. While McMillan never won the American title, McMillan beat lesser competition before the better wrestlers like Burns defeated him. Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 22, 1888,
Txog hnub plaub, Lub kaum hli ntuj 7, 1884, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin wrestled Henry Moses Dufur for what both men claimed would be the last time. The 40-year-olds specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled in Detroit, Michigan, the home territory of McLaughlin. The match took place at the Detroit Opera House in front of a small crowd. Professional wrestling had not developed
Tuesday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 29, 1884, Kwv yees li ntawm ob txhiab kiv cua crowded rau hauv lub tsev Detroit Opera tsev saib tus thawj ob-match koob ntawm Colonel James H. McLaughlin thiab Henry Moses Dufur. Pawg neeg yuav tsum delight lub koom haum thiab wrestlers. Qhov yuam kev yog nqus crowds nyob rau txhiab tau tsawg tsawg thaum lub xyoo pua 19th. Organizers tau thov McLaughlin yog defending cov American
Henry Moses Dufur nyob hauv lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion thaum lub 1870s. Los ntawm 1855, Dufur txijnkawm los ntawm kev wrestling mus caum nws full-time profession ntawm khaub ncaws tailor. Txawm tias thaum nws wrestling hauj lwm, Dufur ua haujlwm li ib tailor. Dufur hais rau tus correspondent ntawm lub ntiaj teb Boston uas nws yug hauv Richford, Vermont rau lub rau hli ntuj 5, 1943. hnub no
Henry Moses Dufur specialized hauv collar-and-elbow wrestling thaum Dufur wrestled professionally hauv lub 1870s thiab 1880s. Yug rau ntuj 5, 1844, hauv Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled feem ntau nyob rau hauv lub northeastern teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled ib match nrog ib wrestler hu ua Cox ntawm lub Boston Baseball Park pem lub taub hau tsib puas kiv cua. Kiv cua tsib puas
Besides yog tus najnpawb venue rau kev boxers thiab wrestlers los qhia thaum nyob st. Louis, cov me nyuam. Louis lag luam txiv neej Gymnasium hosted me boxing thiab wrestling txheej xwm. Nyob rau hauv 1898, Qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin "Farmer" Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem pem lub taub hau ib pawg neeg me me ntawm cov txiv neej ua hauj lwm gymnasium. Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv txoj kev kawm wrestlers full-time thiab
Sorakichi Matsuda travelled rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas lig 1883 Pib nws kev wrestling hauj lwm. Matsuda npaj kawm American kev wrestling thiab rov qab mus nws teb koj chaw pib nws tus kheej wrestling qib. Matsuda tus thawj tswj ua neeg pab leg ntaubntawv txog nws txoj kev kawm nyob rau Nyiajpoom Teb, uas yuav tsis tau qhia tau tseeb txog. Matsuda kawm nyob sumo wrestling nrog tus nto moo Isegahama ruaj khov tab sis puas tau
Txog hnub plaub, Tim 10, 1884, America tus thawj full-time kev wrestler, J.H.. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish ncaws pob thiab wrestler Duncan C. Ross nyob Detroit opera tsev. Cov txiv neej wrestled ib 3-tawm ntawm-tsib ntog mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized hauv collar-and-luj tshib wrestling. Cov txiv neej wrestled ob ntog hauv collar-and-luj tshib txoj cai. Ross favored sab tuav txoj cai. Cov txiv neej wrestled ob ntog los ruaj ntseg sab
When World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon retired in 1889, he hoped his protege Ernest Roeber would be recognized as the new champion. Txawm li cas los, Muldoon won his title in Greco-Roman wrestling, which was the German-born Roeber’s expertise. Hmoov tsis, the exploits of Martin “Ua teb” Burns and Evan “Lub Strangler” Lewis catapulted catch-as-catch-can wrestling into the dominant style. Roeber did have a