Combat kev ua si Historian thiab Martial Artist
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 mus 1930.
Nyob thanksgiving nyob America, Hnub plaub, Kaum ib hlis 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins ntawm Madison Square vaj nyob New York City. Mahmout nyuam qhuav rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas wrestle Frank Gotch rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Yog Mahmout tua yeej Jenkins, Mahmout yuav pom los ua ib bona fide challenger rau Gotch. Jenkins yog tus
Tuesday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 29, 1884, Kwv yees li ntawm ob txhiab kiv cua crowded rau hauv lub tsev Detroit Opera tsev saib tus thawj ob-match koob ntawm Colonel James H. McLaughlin thiab Henry Moses Dufur. Pawg neeg yuav tsum delight lub koom haum thiab wrestlers. Qhov yuam kev yog nqus crowds nyob rau txhiab tau tsawg tsawg thaum lub xyoo pua 19th. Organizers tau thov McLaughlin yog defending cov American
Txog hnub plaub, Cuaj hlis 7, 1876, Tom Allen defended nws ntiaj teb Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship tiv thaiv koj txog haujlwm Englishman Joe Goss. Allen, Muas thaum chiv thawj ntawm Birmingham, Hais, tswm nyob St. Louis, Missouri. Allen nws thiaj li los ua ib tug neeg. Citizen. Allen tsom ib pugnacious cwm pwm, sab nraum lub nplhaib, Ua haib tsiaj ntawm cov txiv neej ntaus pob ncaws pob nyob hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Allen tshwj xeeb tshaj yog irritated
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Txawm li cas los, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sib xyaw style bouts ntawm wrestlers thiab strikers, Qhov ntxiv yog ib zaug tus wrestler tau nws txhais tes rau tus striker, Kev sib ntaus no lawm. Feem ntau mixed style bouts ntawm wrestlers los yog grapplers thiab boxers, Tus grappler nquag yeej xwb tom qab dragging tus striker rau hauv pem teb. Ray Steele tua yeej Battling Levinsky. "Judo" Gene LeBell smashed Milo Savage. niaj hnub no
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, nyob tim 8, 1910. Nyob rau hauv 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 cov neeg. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Chiv, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Henry Moses Dufur nyob hauv lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion thaum lub 1870s. Los ntawm 1855, Dufur txijnkawm los ntawm kev wrestling mus caum nws full-time profession ntawm khaub ncaws tailor. Txawm tias thaum nws wrestling hauj lwm, Dufur ua haujlwm li ib tailor. Dufur hais rau tus correspondent ntawm lub ntiaj teb Boston uas nws yug hauv Richford, Vermont rau lub rau hli ntuj 5, 1943. hnub no
Henry Moses Dufur specialized hauv collar-and-elbow wrestling thaum Dufur wrestled professionally hauv lub 1870s thiab 1880s. Yug rau ntuj 5, 1844, hauv Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled feem ntau nyob rau hauv lub northeastern teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled ib match nrog ib wrestler hu ua Cox ntawm lub Boston Baseball Park pem lub taub hau tsib puas kiv cua. Kiv cua tsib puas
Wrestling historians xav txog xws li Ed "Strangler" Lewis los yog Frank Gotch yuav tus loj tshaj American kev wrestler. Thaum peb paub heev txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Frank Gotch, Peb paub ntau tsawg txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Ntau qhov chaw thov Lewis kawm catch-as-catch-can wrestling hauv lub carnivals thaum nws tsuas plaub xyoos. Lewis
Besides yog tus najnpawb venue rau kev boxers thiab wrestlers los qhia thaum nyob st. Louis, cov me nyuam. Louis lag luam txiv neej Gymnasium hosted me boxing thiab wrestling txheej xwm. Nyob rau hauv 1898, Qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin "Farmer" Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem pem lub taub hau ib pawg neeg me me ntawm cov txiv neej ua hauj lwm gymnasium. Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv txoj kev kawm wrestlers full-time thiab