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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 a 1930.
Paul Pons fue el campeón de lucha grecorromana de Francia en la década de 1890. Él ganó un torneo en el Folies-Bergère, antes de ganar un torneo en Rusia en 1898. Estas victorias le permitieron reclamar el Campeonato Mundial de Lucha Grecorromana.. Pons aprovechó esta notoriedad mediante la apertura de un gimnasio para los luchadores de tren y de los hombres fuertes. Pons’ La victoria fue particularmente notable debido a
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,
A finales 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 “Agricultor” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Sin embargo, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Por 1902, George
Henry Moses Dufur se especializó en lucha de collar y codo cuando Dufur luchó profesionalmente en las décadas de 1870 y 1880. Nacido en mayo 5, 1844, en Richmond, Vermont, Dufur luchó principalmente en el noreste de los Estados Unidos. En junio 27, 1878, Dufur luchó un partido de regreso con un luchador llamado Cox en el Boston Baseball Park frente a quinientos fanáticos. Quinientos fanáticos
En agosto 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis se reunió el Wrestling campeón británico Tom Cannon, en Cincinnati, Ohio. Durante la era de lucha legítima, otros luchadores temían los poderosos Lewis debido a su dominio. Lewis empleó un estrangular la arteria carótida conocido como el rear naked choke en Judo. Al menos eso fue lo que pensé originalmente y la mayoría de los historiadores han citado. Moderno
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 de odiado rival
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Dado que los fanáticos solo consideraban a Clarence Whistler lo suficientemente hábil como para amenazar realmente su reinado, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. En mayo 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, quien
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 durante 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 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas