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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 to 1930.
D'athraigh wrestling ghairmiúil go taispeántas lúthchleasaíochta ó chomórtais dhlisteanacha ar dhá chúis. Tá go leor scríofa agam faoin gcéad chúis. Is minic a bhí comórtais dhlisteanacha idir wrestléirí chomh-oilte fada, cúrsaí leadránach gan mórán gníomhaíochta. Chuir na comórtais seo stop le lucht leanúna agus chuir siad cosc ar wrestling gairmiúla pléascadh mar spórt lucht féachana. Níl an oiread céanna scríofa agam faoin dara cúis. An
On Monday, Márta 26, 1888, Joe Acton, a rinne speisialaithe i ngaisce wrestling, wrestled an tOllamh William Miller, wrestler Astrálach, agus trodaire duaise lom-knuckle, i gcluiche wrestling Greco-Rómhánach dhá thiteann as a trí. Chreid an dá champa fir gur chinntigh wrestling an chluiche sa stíl seo an comórtas is cothroime eatarthu. Bhí na fir ag troid le haghaidh $500.00 taobh. 1,500 fans, slua mór don ré, iompaithe
Roimh wrestling in Kentucky go luath sna 1910idí, Bhí aithne ag lucht leanúna wrestling ar Ed “Strangler” Lewis mar Bob Fredrichs. Rugadh Robert Friedrich i Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Rinne Lewis a chéad chluiche gairmiúil wrestling i 1905, agus fós amháin 14 bliain d'aois. Shíl tionscnóirí Kentucky go raibh Bob Fredrichs ró-shimplí, mar sin roghnaigh Lewis a ainm nua mar ómós do chomhghleacaí Wisconsin ó dhúchas agus ó bhunadh
Ag beagnach 70 bliana d'aois, Rinne Stanislaus Zbyszko a chéad scannán in Night and the City (1950). Bille mar Gregorious, wrestler ar scor agus athair tionscnóir wrestling Londain, Léirigh Zbyszko a scileanna wrestling, fiú ag a aois chun cinn, i radharc sínithe an scannáin. Tosaíonn an scannán le fear sa tóir ar Harry Fabian, hustler Londain ag lorg i gcónaí
On May 7, 1901, Throid Tom Jenkins leis an bhfathach Nouralah Hassan i gCathair Nua-Eabhrac. Rugadh sa Bhulgáir le linn 1870, Sheas Hassan sé throigh, ocht n-orlach ar airde agus meáchan 331 punt. Cé go raibh scileanna wrestling níos fearr ag Jenkins, Bhí lucht leanúna agus tuairisceoirí ag súil go gcuirfeadh méid ollmhór Hassan fadhbanna i láthair do Jenkins. Chuir tionscnóirí in áirithe na fir chun wrestle ag Madison Square Garden i
Ar Dé hAoine, Meitheamh 29, 1883, ceithre wrestlers déag d'íoc $50 chun cur isteach ar chomórtas dhá lá ar feadh a $500 crios craobhchomórtais agus $500 duais. Risteard K. Fox, úinéir agus foilsitheoir an Police Gazette, cuir suas an duais airgid agus crios. Thacaigh Fox go mór le cur chun cinn na dornálaíochta gairmiúla agus na cogaíochta gairmiúla araon. Cé go ndearna ceithre fhear déag iarracht dul isteach sa chomórtas, Fox
Ar Lúnasa 4, 1939, Fuair Mort Henderson bás i Rochester, Nua Eabhrac ag 60 bliana d'aois. Is dócha nár chuimhnigh lucht leanúna wrestling ar an ainm Mort Henderson ach mar a ego eile, an Marvel Masked bunaidh, shábháil sé an leagan titim den 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Chuir Sam Rachmann an comórtas chun cinn le sprioc
Ar Deireadh Fómhair 26, 1897, Martin “Farmer” Burns defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod. Burns and McLeod were two of the top three or four catch-as-catch-can wrestlers in the United States at the time. 1,200 fans attended the match held at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy
George Tragos gained fame as the trainer of Lou Thesz, the dominant National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion of the 1950s and early 1960s. Tragos, a 1920 Olympian for his native Greece, possessed an impeccable resume in legitimate wrestling. Born March 14, 1901, in Messinia, Greece, Tragos won national wrestling titles before representing Greece at the 1920 Olympics at only
At the end of 1932, 22-year-old Vila Milli sued her husband, professional wrestler Wladek Zbyszko, for divorce alleging physical cruelty and adultery. Milli charged the 41-year-old Zbyszko with physical cruelty for “hugging her too hard.” Justice Dunne of the Brooklyn Supreme Court heard the divorce case. He expressed doubt that Zbyszko abused his wife. Mar sin féin, he did not dismiss the