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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th Century.
Bernarr MacFadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, ar Lúnasa 16, 1868, founded a publishing company in 1899 that still operates today. MacFadden, an early proponent of physical culture, authored books and published magazine about physical culture, early bodybuilding training. MacFadden moved into pulp magazines like True Detective in the 1920s. Before MacFadden made his fortune as a publisher
Ar Aibreán 24, 1889, the Missouri Gymnasium hosted its annual event to highlight the athletic accomplishments of its members. Members showed off gymnastic skills and other athletic ability while an orchestra or the Ideal Banjo Club played music in the background. The gymnasium managers booked a main attraction for the evening. George Baptiste, Fhéile. Louis middleweight wrestler who specialized
Ar Déardaoin, Márta 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. A. D'fheidhmigh McMillan mar wrestler inniúil ar thuras le fiche bliain anuas den 19ú hAois. Chuaigh McMillan i ngleic le curadh Mheiriceánach Trom-mheáchain Wrestling Martin “Farmer” Burns i scéim chearrbhachais oibrithe a nocht tuairisceoir nuachtáin. Cé nár bhuaigh McMillan an teideal Meiriceánach riamh, Bhuaigh McMillan níos lú iomaíochta sular bhuaigh na wrestlers níos fearr cosúil le Burns air. Ar Nollaig 22, 1888,
Ar Déardaoin, Deireadh Fómhair 7, 1884, Chaith an Coirnéal James Hiram McLaughlin Henry Moses Dufur as an rud a mhaígh an bheirt fhear a bheadh an uair dheireanach. Na daoine 40 bliain d'aois speisialaithe i wrestling collar-agus-elbow. Throid na fir i Detroit, Michigan, críoch bhaile Mhic Lochlainn. Bhí an cluiche ar siúl ag an Detroit Opera House os comhair slua beag. Ní raibh an wrestling gairmiúil forbartha
Ar Dé Máirt, Eanáir 29, 1884, tháinig thart ar dhá mhíle lucht leanúna isteach i dTeach Opera Detroit chun féachaint ar an gcéad cheann de shraith dhá chluiche idir an Coirnéal James H. McLaughlin agus Henry Moses Dufur. Bhí ar an slua taitneamh a bhaint as na heagraithe agus na wrestlers. Ba annamh a bhí meaitseanna ag tarraingt na mílte sluaite i rith an 19ú hAois. Mhaígh na heagraithe go raibh McLaughlin ag cosaint na Meiriceánach
Seachas a bheith ar an ionad is fearr le dornálaithe gairmiúla agus wrestlers a thraenáil agus iad i St. Louis, Naomh. D’óstáil Giomnáisiam Louis Business Men’s imeachtaí dornálaíochta agus wrestála níos lú. In 1898, rinne iar-Chluiche Mheiriceá Trom-mheáchain Wrestling Martin “Farmer” Burns wrest Oscar Wasem os comhair slua beag ag Business Men’s Gymnasium. Bhí Burns ag aistriú go wrestlers traenála go lánaimseartha agus
Thaistil Sorakichi Matsuda go dtí na Stáit Aontaithe go déanach 1883 chun tús a chur lena shaol gairmiúil wrestling. Bhí sé i gceist ag Matsuda wrestling ghairmiúil Mheiriceá a fhoghlaim agus filleadh ar a thír dhúchais chun tús a chur lena chur chun cinn cogaíochta féin. Rinne bainisteoir Matsuda éilimh faoina oiliúint sa tSeapáin, nach bhféadfaí a fhíorú. Fuair Matsuda oiliúint i wrestling sumo le stábla cáiliúil Isegahama ach rinne sé
Ar Déardaoin, Aibreán 10, 1884, An chéad wrestler gairmiúil lánaimseartha i Meiriceá, J.H. Chuaigh McLaughlin i ngleic leis an lúthchleasaí agus an wrestler Albanach Duncan C. Ross ag Teach Opera Detroit. Bhí na fir ag troid i gcluiche stíleanna measctha trí as gach cúigear. Bhí McLaughlin speisialaithe i wrestling collar-agus-elbow. Rinne na fir wrestled dhá thiteann faoi rialacha collar-agus-elbow. B’fhearr le Ross rialacha maidir le coinneáil taobh. Throid na fir le dhá thitim trí thaobh a dhaingniú
In March 1893, newspapers across the country carried the story of a proposed match between current world light heavyweight boxing champion Jack McAuliffe and Saint Louis boxing instructor Mike Mooney. Although the match would seem odd because Mooney was such a lightly regarded challenger, the lure of $2500 a side is probably what brought the champion to the table. Adjusted