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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th Century.
Joe Acton var en av Englands beste brytere på 1800-tallet. 151-pound Acton went through England’s middleweight ranks before plowing through the heavyweights. After beating the best England had to offer including Tom Cannon, Acton decided to test his abilities in the United States. Joe Acton settled in Philadelphia at Arthur Chamber’s Champions Rest during the summer months of
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. He finally secured
Martin “Farmer” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. However, Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “The Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. I 1893, Burns was still
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, November 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
Henry Moses Dufur holdt verdensmesteren i tungvekt i krage-og-albuebryting på 1870-tallet. Av 1855, Dufur trakk seg fra profesjonell bryting for å satse på sitt heltidsyrke som klesskredder. Selv under brytekarrieren, Dufur jobbet som skredder. Dufur fortalte korrespondenten fra The Boston Globe at han ble født i Richford, Vermont i juni 5, 1943. Denne datoen av
Paul Pons var den gresk-romersk bryting Champion i Frankrike på 1890-tallet. Han vant en turnering på Folies-Bergeres før de vant en turnering i Russland i 1898. Disse seirene tillot ham å kreve verdensmesterskapet i gresk-romersk bryting. Pons kapitalisert på denne beryktet ved å åpne et treningsstudio for å trene fribrytere og sterke menn. Pons’ seieren var spesielt bemerkelsesverdig pga
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. Juni 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans
August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis møtte den britiske Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon i Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Det var i hvert fall det jeg opprinnelig trodde og de fleste historikere har sitert. Moderne
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Siden fansen bare anså Clarence Whistler som dyktig nok til å virkelig true hans regjeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Mai 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, som