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Posts about 19th Century professional wrestlers and matches.
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
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
Tuesday, Lub rau hli ntuj 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning sib tw Taro Miyake hauv ib mixed styles match hauv Nashville, Tennessee. xim av, Ib wrestler ntawm Verona, Missouri nyuam qhuav tshuav lub Missouri-Kansas cheeb tsam wrestle hauv Tennessee thiab Kentucky. Tus 21 xyoo Browning yog tsim ib lub koob npe nrov rau solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters heev nyob rau hauv lub 1920s tias cov promoters muab cov
Dhau lub xyoo dhau los no, preservationists pom muaj ob peb wrestling films ntawm lub 1920s los ntawm cov 1950s uas tau assumed poob lawm. Kiv cua yuav saib feem ntau ntawm cov tshiab khiv sab films rau YouTube. Yog ib lub surviving films yog yim feeb ntawm ib teev, Nees nkaum feeb ntais ntawv ntawm Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hauv 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (yees duab txuas) rau ib tug
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
Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Ed “Strangler” Lewis twb teem tau raws li tus tau zus ib Stanislaus Zbyszko ntawm lub St. Louis Coliseum txog hnub plaub, Hlis ntuj nqeg 14, 1922 tab sis, ntais ntawv yuav luag tus hu ua rho tawm hauj lwm vim qhov dhau ib referee xaiv. Txoog xwb tom qab cov intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos uas leej txiv neej pom zoo rau cov me nyuam. Louis
Polish wrestler thiab strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko xub tuaj txog hauv tebchaws 1909 rau cov kev sib tw rau kev txhaj tshuaj rau ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Frank Gotch. Nws tau txais thiab ploj ntais ntawv nyob rau hauv ib contest tseeb thaum 1910. Zbyszko tseem wrestling ob peb xyoos ntau thiab ua tau yeej lub qab ntuj Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship hauv 1914 ntawm hated rival