Category: 早期职业摔跤历史

周二, 三月 22, 1910, 博士. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 和 1920. 博士. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. 博士.

我经常发现研究早期职业摔跤的最大挑战是将事实与虚构分开. 即使摔跤手参加合法的比赛, 他们经常夸大结果, 围绕他们的胜利建立了虚构的民间传说，并编造了奇幻的故事来解释他们的失败. 职业摔跤起源于嘉年华并保留了这项艺术的推广本能. 圣.

十二月 16, 1917, 弗兰克·阿尔文Gotch失去了三个星期的战斗尿毒症中毒. 医生试图把他的肾脏经历在芝加哥的操作，但只提供了暂时缓解. Gotch打算前往温泉, 阿肯色州，试图恢复他的健康状况. 操作结束这个希望. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

周一, 二月 7, 1887, 埃文 “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” 刘易斯和 “小恶魔” 乔·阿克顿在芝加哥会见了在电池d, 伊利诺伊州. 这将是第一个的男人之间的几个展览较量. 他们在较大的中西部城市在早期进行这些展览 1887. 像圣. 保罗匹配我盖在先前的帖子, 刘易斯和阿克顿同意

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. 在这一集, I discuss what Evan “在扼杀” 刘易斯’ hold would be called today. 主要内容 – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. 然而, several sources I checked described it as a rear naked choke. 刘易斯

在 1880, William Muldoon would become World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the Greco-Roman style after defeating Thiebaud Bauer, the reigning champion. Before he would accomplish this feat, Muldoon had to pay his dues and prepare for the title tilt with Bauer. 在 1876, Muldoon caught the attention of former bare knuckle prizefighting world champion John Morrissey. Morrissey was a former

Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, 宾夕法尼亚. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” 摔跤推广并击败穆恩

我决定重新开始 2020 通过使用从职业摔跤两个例子来讨论一下为什么你会改变你在过去写了一个历史帐户. 在写历史, 你是对标的物的可用资源的限制. 主要来源像日记, 官方记录和自传是非常有价值的. 像报纸其他来源一样好，但