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Posts about 19th Century professional wrestlers and matches.
Ponedeljek, Marec 26, 1888, Joe Acton, who specialized in catch wrestling, wrestled Professor William Miller, an Australian wrestler, and bare-knuckle prizefighter, in a two-out-of-three-falls Greco-Roman wrestling match. Both men’s camps believed wrestling the match in this style ensured the fairest contest between them. The men wrestled for $500.00 a side. 1,500 fans, a large crowd for the era, turned
V petek, Junij 29, 1883, fourteen wrestlers paid $50 to enter a two-day tournament for a $500 championship belt and $500 prize. Richard K. Fox, owner and publisher of the Police Gazette, put up the prize money and belt. Fox avidly supported the promotion of both professional boxing and professional wrestling. While fourteen men attempted to enter the tournament, Fox
Oktobra 26, 1897, Martin “Farmer” Burns defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod. Burns and McLeod were two of the top three or four catch-as-catch-can wrestlers in the United States at the time. 1,200 fans attended the match held at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy
Med raziskovanjem zgodovine ameriškega prvenstva v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji (1881 – 1922), Odkril sem zgodnje tekme Evana "Davitelja" Lewisa v Montani. Pred raziskovanjem te teme, Mislil sem, da je Lewis svojo kariero začel z zmago na turnirju v rokoborbi s 64 moškimi v Montani med 1882. Vendar, Lewis turnirja ni zmagal. In May 1882, Lewis se je boril na turnirju v rokoborbi Cornish
Avgusta 7, 1882, American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Edwin Bibby defended his title against English Champion Joe Acton at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The men wrestled a “catch-as-catch-can” match for the world championship. Vendar, the public did not recognize the winner of the bout as the world champion. The public recognized the winner as the American Heavyweight
V 1897, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju. Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju. Over the next 30 let, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju. Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju 1899, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju
Edwin Bibby in Duncan C. Ross je januarja ustanovil prvo priznano prvenstvo v profesionalni rokoborbi v Združenih državah 19, 1881. Moški so se borili v slogu catch as-catch-can za ameriško prvenstvo v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji. William Muldoon je bil svetovni prvak v težki kategoriji na podlagi poraza nad Thiebaudom Bauerjem v 1880. Andre Christol je v ZDA prinesel naslov svetovnega prvaka
V 1899, Martin “Kmet” Burns je prehajal v vlogo rokoborca s krajšim delovnim časom in rednega trenerja. Eden njegovih najbolj znanih učencev bi bil Frank Gotch, ki ga je Burns premagal teden dni po tem dvoboju. Burns je bil 38 let in je dve leti prej izgubil naslov ameriškega prvaka v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji. Burns je v zelo naporni decembrski noči združil obe vlogi
James Hiram McLaughlin je prvi ameriški profesionalni rokoborec. Medtem ko so se ljudje pred McLaughlinom profesionalno borili, bil je prvi, ki se je profesionalno preživljal z rokoborbo. McLaughlin se je začel profesionalno ukvarjati z rokoborbo leta 1860 pri 16 leta starosti, a je državljanska vojna za nekaj let prekinila njegovo kariero. McLaughlin se je znova začel z rokoborbo 1866. Jo 1877,
Since its emergence as a spectator sport in the second half of the 19th Century, promoters and wrestlers were under a cloud of suspicion that they were working their matches. While professional wrestling would eventually consist almost exclusively of staged exhibitions, many, if not most, of the matches were legitimate contest prior to 1915. Promoters and wrestlers went to great