Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Inlägg om professionell brottningshistoria från 1870 till 1930.
Paul Pons var grekisk-romersk brottning mästare i Frankrike på 1890-talet. Han vann en turnering i Folies-Bergères innan han vann en turnering i Ryssland 1898. Dessa segrar tillät honom att göra anspråk på det grekisk-romerska världsmästerskapet i brottning. Pons aktiveras på denna ryktbarhet genom att öppna ett gym för att träna brottare och starka män. Pons’ segern var särskilt anmärkningsvärd pga
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 “Farmer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Emellertid, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Genom 1902, George
Henry Moses Dufur specialiserade sig på krag- och armbågsbrottning när Dufur brottades professionellt på 1870- och 1880-talen. Född i maj 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur brottades främst i nordöstra USA. On June 27, 1878, Dufur brottades en returmatch med en brottare vid namn Cox på Boston Baseball Park inför femhundra fans. Femhundra fans
På Augusti 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” 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. Det var åtminstone vad jag ursprungligen trodde och de flesta historiker har citerat. Modern
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” Åberg. 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 from hated rival
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Eftersom fansen bara ansåg att Clarence Whistler var skicklig nog att verkligen hota hans regeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. På maj 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, som
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 under 1979, “Sjöman” 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