קאַמבאַט ספּאָרט היסטאריקער און מאַרשאַל קינסטלער
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 צו 1930.
אויף מאַרץ 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, נעוואַדאַ. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
וועלט העאַוויוועיגהט ראַנגלעריי טשאַמפּיאָן עד “סטראַנגלער” לויס איז געווען סקעדזשולד צו טרעפן די ערשטע מייַסטער סטאַניסלאַוס זביסקאָ אין די סט. לוי קאָליסעום אויף דאנערשטאג, דעצעמבער 14, 1922 אָבער די גלייַכן איז כּמעט אָפּרופן רעכט צו דיסאַגרימאַנץ איבער די סעלעקציע פון אַ שויפעט. עס איז געווען בלויז נאָך די השתדלות פון סט. לוי פּראָמאָטער יוחנן קאָנטאָס אַז ביידע מענטשן האָבן מסכים געווען צו סט. לוי
אויף דינסטאג, דעצעמבער 12, 1916, local favorite, יוחנן “די נעבראסקא טיגערמאן” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. אָבער, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, when
In the early 1880s, Sorakichi Matsuda, or Matsada in most American newspapers, traveled to the United States to wrestle professionally. Japan did not have a developed professional wrestling circuit, so Matsuda thought he would bring the sport back to Japan after an apprenticeship in the United States. After training for a while, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. לוי, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, די סט. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
אויף פרייטאג, נאָוועמבער 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, קאַליפאָרניאַ. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 purse. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
אויף דעצעמבער 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, מאַזעראַ. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, קאַנסאַס. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
אויף נאוועמבער 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
אויף מאי 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, אָהיאָ. Ismail only toured the United States for six months in the early part of 1898. Ismail wrestled less than ten matches but left a path of destruction remembered to this day. Ismail made a powerful impression by easily defeating both Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Ismail also made a strong