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Posts about 19th Century professional wrestlers and matches.
April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff at the Hippodrome in New York City. Promoters once again called on Lewis to settle a promotional conflict. The opposing group selected Lee Wykoff, a 36-year-old shooter from Kansas. Wykoff stood six feet, one inches tall and weighed two hundred eighteen pounds. The 44-year-old Lewis
I am ashamed to say I recently discovered the career of Cora Livingston, while researching the development of the local promotor system in professional wrestling during the 1910s and 1920s. Mildred Burke was the first major woman’s wrestling champion of which I was aware. However, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
På Mars 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed on the last night of the International Wrestling Tournament in Detroit, Michigan. The tournament ran for almost two months before the finale on March 10th. Wrestling historians frequently credit J. H. McLaughlin as being the first professional wrestler to live only on his earnings as a professional wrestler. Most professional wrestlers
Et av de eldste ordtakene innen kampsport er “en god stor mann slår alltid en god liten mann”. Det er grunnen til at vi har vektinndelinger i boksing, bryting og blandet kampsport. On Tuesday, November 2, 1881, 160-pund Edwin Bibby beviste at det er unntak fra denne regelen. Mens liten, Edwin Bibby var spesielt sterk for sin størrelse.
(Dette utdraget er fra min nyeste bok om historien til American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.) Jenkins viste seg som den beste konkurrenten så snart McLeod vant tittelen. På onsdag, November 17, 1897, Tom Jenkins kjempet mot tidligere tittelholder Martin "Farmer" Burns i Indianapolis, Indiana. Mennene kjempet en beste to-av-tre-fall-kamp i henhold til catch-as-catch-can-brytingsregler. Jenkins sto
På mandag, Desember 6, 1932, 41-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled one of his last legitimate contests to settle a promotional dispute in New York. After initially being allies in promotion, Jim Londos broke away from Jack Curley’s group in New York. To restore peace, the parties decided on a legitimate contest or “shoot” to settle the dispute. Joseph "Toots" Mondt
On Tuesday, March 28, 1899, current American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Dan S. McLeod wrestled Charles Wittmer in a two-out-of-three-falls mixed styles match. Since the champion only defended the title in catch-as-catch-can matches, McLeod wrestled Wittmer in a non-title match. Wittmer, a Greco-Roman wrestling specialist, demanded he and McLeod wrestle at least one fall under Greco-Roman rules. The St. Paul Athletic
If wrestling fans know of Anton “Tony” Stecher, it is as the long-time promoter of professional wrestling in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stecher started promoting professional wrestling in the Twin Cities during 1933. Stecher built the Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club into a powerful local wrestling promotion. Stecher was also one of the early members of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Stecher
Den skotske bryteren Duncan C. Ross kjempet profesjonelt, men deltok også i styrke- og atletiske konkurranser etter ankomst til USA på slutten av 1870-tallet. En allsidig idrettsutøver, Ross kjempet dyktig i både catch-as-catch-can-bryting og gresk-romersk bryting. På mandag, February 26, 1883, Ross kjempet tidligere verdensmester i tungvektbryting Theobaud Bauer. Bauer tok med seg verdensmesterskapet fra Frankrike
Dan McLeod beseiret Martin "Farmer" Burns for American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i oktober 1897. McLeod holdt mesterskapet i fire år til han møtte Frank Gotchs tøffeste motstander, Tom Jenkins. In early 1899, McLeod gjorde et par tittelforsvar i Minnesota. On February 24, 1899, McLeod kjempet mot St. Louis mellomvektbrytingmester George Baptiste i Conover Hall foran