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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 mus 1930.
I decided to start 2020 by using two examples from professional wrestling to discuss why you would change a historical account you wrote in the past. In writing history, you are limited by the available sources on the subject matter. Primary sources like diaries, official records and autobiographies are very valuable. Other sources like newspapers are good as well but
Rau cov me nyuam. Patrick lub hnub 1908, Martin “Ua teb” Burns met the small but powerful Fred Beell. While both wrestlers weighed 165 phaus, “Ua teb” Burns stood 5’11” to Beell’s 5’04”. The 32-year-old Beell had a big age advantage over the 47-year-old Burns though. Burns debuted in 1879, when Beell was 3-years-old. The men were scheduled for a match in Omaha, Nebraska, one
On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Sib tw Lewis “Loj” Wayne Munn rau nws xamphaj Michigan-Illinois ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis poob lub npe mus Munn rau lub ob hlis ntuj 1925. Nyob rau hnub tim 1925, Zbyszko tua yeej Munn nyob hauv ib tug naas ej double-cross. Ntais ntawv ntawm Lewis thiab
Evan “Strangler” Lewis yog ib cov scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 phaus, Lewis’ submissions paub ua rau nws muaj vaj huam sib luag los zoo uas feem ntau wrestlers ntawm nws era. Jack Carkeek yog ib tus wrestler zoo kawg li tab sis ib match nrog Lewis yuav luag los nws mus so num lawm. Lewis’ yus lub qe ntawd xav
Nyob rau hnub tim 7, 1914, 22-xyoo Wladek Zbyszko ntsib Ed 22 xyoo “Strangler” Lewis puas raws li nyob rau hauv ib ntawm ntau qhov yuam kev ntawm ob tug txiv neej lub. While they were supposed to be working the match, Lewis and Wladek Zbyszko struggled to work together. Nyob rau thaum 1920 los, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Nyob rau hauv
Hais ncaj ntsaim J. Quinn, ib lub zos me nyuam. Tus kws lij choj Louis, txais kev pab raws li tus manager saib xyuas rau kev wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson thiab Fred Beell. Kev admirer muas thaum chiv thawj txog George Baptiste, leej twg yog tus lus dab neeg nyob rau hauv tus me nyuam. Louis tsev ua noj thiab hom Vandeventer. Baptiste yuav ntiav Quinn raws li nws lub dab zaub thiab cov kws lij choj rau nws tsev pheebsuab thiab awning niaj hnub tom ntej. Thaum nws
Thaum ntxov 1916, Martin “Ua teb” Zaus, leej twg kawm thiab tswj Frank Gotch rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Championship, pib tsis tau hais tias nws tsim tam sim no American Heavyweight tau zus ib Joe Stecher. Cov ntaubntawv seemed khib vim kub yus yuav tsum ua haujlwm nrog Stecher ntau xyoo. Kub yus pab npaj Stecher rau nws championship bout nrog Charlie Cutler hauv 1915. Nyob rau hauv ib txoj kev, dab tsi Burns
Thaum kawg ntawm lub 1910s, Kev wrestling promoters booked wrestlers ua hauj lwm los yog pre-txheej txheem wrestling qhov yuam kev. Puav, Feem ntau yog los ntawm ib tug ntoo khaub lig ob npaug, Kiv cua yuav pom ib contest los yog “tua” Ntais ntawv ntawm lub wrestlers. Ib qhov yuam kev tshwm sim nyob lig 1921 Thiab sawv ntawm ib feud ntawm Tex Rickard, feem ntau yog ib boxing promoter, thiab Jack
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 14, 1915, tus International Wrestling kev sib tw los yog lub kaw. Ib featured match ices Samuel Rachmann promoter yog manipulating kev ua tau kom txaus siab rau qhov nws cov kev sib tw. Tom qab cov wrestling pej xeem ploj tag txaus siab rau cov kev sib tw thaum nws qhib ob peb lub hlis nyob rau lub caij nplooj ntoos hlav, Rachmann yog ib lub gimmicks zoo tshaj plaws hauv keeb kwm kev wrestling tswvcuab. Rachmann
Georg Lurich ua nws lub koob npe nrov li ib tug neeg wrestler nyob nyob sab Europe wrestling Greco-Roman tournaments competing. Thaum Lurich travelled lub tebchaws los ply nws pauv, nws ua rau kev hloov mus catch-as-catch-can wrestling, cov hom style lwm teb chaws Europe. Lurich txais tau zoo rau cov style no thiab yuav tau txhaj tshuaj rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib, Frank Gotch, Gotch lub xeem