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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th Century.
Joe Acton je bil eden najboljših angleških rokoborcev v 19. stoletju. 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. Končno se je zavaroval
Martin “Kmet” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Vendar, Burns je bil velik borec v svoji desni. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. V 1893, Burns je bil miren
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 je bil v sedemdesetih letih 19. stoletja svetovni prvak v rokoborbi z ovratnikom in komolcem v težki kategoriji.. Jo 1855, Dufur se je upokojil iz profesionalne rokoborbe, da bi redno opravljal poklic krojača oblačil. Tudi med svojo rokoborsko kariero, Dufur je delal kot krojač. Dufur je dopisniku The Boston Globe povedal, da je rojen v Richfordu, junija v Vermontu 5, 1943. Ta datum od
Paul Pons je grško-rimske rokoborbe prvak Francije v 1890. Je osvojil turnir v Folies-Bergeres pred zmago na turnirju v Rusiji 1898. Te zmage so mu omogočile naslov svetovnega prvaka v grško-rimskem rokoborbi. Pons kapitalizirane na ta slava z odprtjem telovadnico trenirati rokoborcev in močne moške. Pons’ zmaga je bila še posebej izjemna zaradi
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 se je specializiral za rokoborbo z ovratnikom in komolcem, ko se je Dufur profesionalno boril v 1870-ih in 1880-ih. Rojen maja 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur se je boril predvsem na severovzhodu ZDA. On June 27, 1878, Dufur se je boril v povratnem dvoboju z rokoborcem po imenu Cox v bostonskem baseball parku pred petsto navijači. Petsto navijačev
Avgusta 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in 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. Vsaj tako sem prvotno mislil in večina zgodovinarjev je citirala. Moderno
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Ker so oboževalci samo menili, da je Clarence Whistler dovolj izkušen, da resnično ogrozi njegovo vladavino, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Maja 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, ki