Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 1930.
I took a second look at this match after listening to the Shut Up and Wrestle podcast interview with Mike Chapman, one of the foremost experts on Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman put forth a convincing argument for his belief that both Earl Caddock vs. Joe Stecher world title matches were “shoots” or legitimate contests. After reviewing the accounts of the
Sorakichi Matsuda travelled to the United States in late 1883 to begin his professional wrestling career. Matsuda intended to learn American professional wrestling and return to his homeland to start his own wrestling promotion. Matsuda’s manager made claims about his training in Japan, which could not be verified. Matsuda trained in sumo wrestling with the famous Isegahama stable but did
Am Dienstag, Juni 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
Am Donnerstag,, April 10, 1884, America’s first full-time professional wrestler, J.H. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. The men wrestled a three-out-of-five falls mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled two falls under collar-and-elbow rules. Ross favored side hold rules. The men wrestled two falls by securing side
Am Samstag,, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, England. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Herr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Jedoch, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Henry Moses Dufur spezialisierte sich auf Kragen- und Ellenbogen-Ringen, als Dufur in den 1870er und 1880er Jahren professionell rang. Geboren im Mai 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur rang hauptsächlich im Nordosten der USA. Juni 27, 1878, Dufur bestritt im Boston Baseball Park vor fünfhundert Fans ein Rückspiel mit einem Wrestler namens Cox. Fünfhundert Fans
Weltmeister im Schwergewichts-Wrestling Ed “Würger” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum am Donnerstag, Dezember 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. Louis
Am Montag, Dezember 6, 1932, 41-Der einjährige Ed „Strangler“ Lewis hat in New York einen seiner letzten legitimen Wettbewerbe bestritten, um einen Werbestreit beizulegen. Nachdem sie zunächst Verbündete bei der Beförderung waren, Jim Londos löste sich von Jack Curleys Gruppe in New York. Um den Frieden wiederherzustellen, Die Parteien entschieden sich für einen legitimen Wettbewerb oder „Shoot“, um den Streit beizulegen. Joseph „Toots“ Mondt