Qeb: Combat cov keeb kwm kev ua si

Edwin Bibby thiab Duncan C. Ross tsim tus thawj pom tau hais tias kev wrestling championship hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas rau lub ib hlis ntuj 19, 1881. Cov txiv neej wrestled catch-as-catch-can style rau cov American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon yog lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Champion raws li nws swb ntawm Thiebaud Bauer hauv 1880. Andre Christol coj lub ntiaj teb npe rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas

In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “tua”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests

Ua ntej lub creation ntawm lub territorial lawv nyob rau hauv 1948, Pro wrestling promoters fought nrog sib los tswj lub ntiaj teb championship. Promoting lub ntiaj teb tau zus ib coj mus loj rooj vag, Li ntawd, feem ntau promoters xav tswj lub championship. Hauv lub 1930s, promoters yuav nkag mus rau hauv agreements nrog sib tab sis lawv feem ntau fleeting. Thaum ib promoter tau offended, xav

Nyob rau hauv 1899, Martin “Ua teb” Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv lub luag hauj lwm ntawm part-time wrestler thiab full-time trainer. Yog ib yam ntawm nws cov miv nyuas nto moo tshaj plaws yuav Frank Gotch, Leej twg Burns tua yeej ib lub lis piam tom qab ntais ntawv no match. Kub yus yog kub yus 38 Xyoo thiab tau poob nws American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship ob xyoos lawm. Kub yus blended ob cwj pwm rau ib tug tibneeg hu tauj coob heev hlis ntuj nqeg rau

William Hayes Shaw, Leej twg wrestled li Pat O'Shocker los ntawm feem ntau ntawm nws cov hauj lwm wrestling, Nrhiav tau nws tus kheej hauv qhov tsom teeb nyob rau hauv qhov tsom teeb 1933. O'Shocker tsis nrhiav no tsi koob meej ho. Ntawv xov xwm tau nqa ib zaj dabneeg txog li cas wrestling promoters sim siv O'Shocker nyob rau hauv ib ob-ntoo khaub lig. Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers tawm hauv New York thiab yog aligned nrog

Nyob rau hauv 1933, hais txog 10 Xyoo rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm wrestling hauj lwm, Jim Browning yuav yeej lub ntiaj teb npe. Pib nws cov hauj lwm nyob Kansas thiab nws lub xeev ntawm Missouri, Browning yuav tau tawm hauv cov chaw pib paub, Yog hais tias nws npaj kom mus zoo raws cov pinnacle ntau tshaj pinnacle hauv kev wrestling. Vim ntiaj teb Champions yuav tsum ncig xyuas teb chaws, thiab feem ntau thoob ntiaj teb, Lub npe ntiaj teb yog

Kuv twb sau yav tag los uas lub caij nplooj zeeg hais mav: Lub Barnums ntawm Bounce los Marcus Griffin yog ib qhov teeb meem problematic. Thaum Griffin muaj insider paub vim nws lub sij hawm nyob rau hauv lub Buffalo promotional chaw ua hauj lwm hauv lub 1930s, Nws tau sau phau ntawv rau lub hom phiaj ntawm kua zaub ntsuab tiv thaiv cov promoters uas raug rho tawm haujlwm nws. Phau ntawv muaj cov ntaub ntawv tseeb sib xyaw nrog nthuav

James Hiram McLaughlin tuas cov distinction uas yog tus thawj American kev wrestler. Thaum cov neeg wrestled professionally ua ntej McLaughlin, Nws yog thawj zaug khwv tau ib tug nyob ntawm wrestling. McLaughlin pib wrestling professionally nyob rau hauv 1860 tom 16 Xyoo tab sis tsov rog Civil interrupted nws cov hauj lwm rau ob peb xyoos. McLaughlin pib wrestling dua nyob rau hauv 1866. Los ntawm 1877,