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Posts about combat sports history from 1870 to 1930.
Pandan kòmansman ane 1930 yo, pwomotè ki pi pwisan nan lit pwofesyonèl, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Pòl Bowser, ak Tom Packs egzekite doub-kwa youn sou lòt blese pouvwa a desen an jeneral nan wrèstle yo. Pandan lagè pwomosyonèl la, Jack Pfefer aliman tèt li ak Jack Curley ak "Toots" Mondt, ki te kouri soti nan vil Nouyòk. Nan fen 1933, Curley ak
Mwen te fè yon dezyèm gade nan match sa a apre mwen fin koute entèvyou podcast Shut Up and Wrestle ak Mike Chapman., youn nan pi gwo ekspè sou Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman te pwopoze yon agiman konvenkan pou kwayans li ke tou de Earl Caddock vs. Match tit mondyal Joe Stecher yo te "lans" oswa konpetisyon lejitim. Apre revize kont yo nan
James J. Jeffries domine Ameriken pwa loud boksè de 1899 to 1904. Apre li te genyen chanpyona mondyal boksè pwa lou de Bob Fitzsimmons nan 1899, Jeffries te fè 9 defans tit siksè pandan senk ane kap vini yo. Li te pran retrèt san defèt nan 1905 anvan dwe atire tounen pou yon reaparisyon malere kont gwo Jack Johnson la. Jeffries pa t genyen batay li yo ak boksè siperyè
Sorakichi Matsuda te vwayaje nan peyi Etazini an reta 1883 yo kòmanse karyè pwofesyonèl lit li. Matsuda te gen entansyon aprann lit pwofesyonèl Ameriken epi retounen nan peyi l 'yo kòmanse pwòp pwomosyon lit li. Manadjè Matsuda a te fè reklamasyon sou fòmasyon li nan Japon, which could not be verified. Matsuda te antrene nan lit sumo ak pi popilè Isegahama ki estab men li te fè
Nan Vandredi, Jen 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. Nan sèlman 24 ane fin vye granmoun, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to
Nan Madi, Jen 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
Nan Jedi, Avril 10, 1884, America’s first full-time professional wrestler, J.H. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. The men wrestled a three-out-of-five falls mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled two falls under collar-and-elbow rules. Ross favored side hold rules. The men wrestled two falls by securing side
Nan samdi, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Angletè. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Sou Me 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett