مؤرخ الرياضة القتالية وفنان القتال
Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 إلى 1930.
وكان بول بونز بطل المصارعة اليونانية الرومانية في فرنسا في 1890s. حصل على البطولة في Folies-Bergeres قبل الفوز في البطولة في روسيا في 1898. سمحت له هذه الانتصارات بالمطالبة ببطولة المصارعة العالمية اليونانية الرومانية. بونس استفاد من هذه الشهرة من خلال فتح صالة رياضية لتدريب المصارعين والرجل القوي. Pons’ وكان النصر ملحوظا بشكل خاص بسبب
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. After
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
In late 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “مزارع” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. لكن, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. لويس, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. من قبل 1902, George
تخصص هنري موسى دوفور في مصارعة الياقات والمرفق عندما تصارع دوفور بشكل احترافي في سبعينيات وثمانينيات القرن التاسع عشر.. ولد في مايو 5, 1844, in Richmond, فيرمونت, تصارع دوفور في المقام الأول في شمال شرق الولايات المتحدة. حزيران 27, 1878, صارع دوفور في مباراة العودة مع مصارع اسمه كوكس في ملعب بوسطن للبيسبول أمام خمسمائة مشجع. خمسمائة معجب
آب 26, 1886, ايفان “خانق” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. على الأقل هذا ما اعتقدته في الأصل ونقله معظم المؤرخين. حديث
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into
Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 من منافس مكروه
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. نظرًا لأن المعجبين اعتبروا أن كلارنس ويسلر ماهر فقط بما يكفي لتهديد عهده حقًا, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. في مايو 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, الذي
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 صباحا إلى. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas