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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 mus 1930.
Kuv muab ib ob saib no match tom qab mloog cov kev sib txuas thiab Wrestle podcast sib tham nrog Mike Chapman, Yog ib tus foremost ua hauj lwm rau Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman muab tso rau ib tug sib cav convincing rau nws ntseeg tias ob Earl Caddock vs. Joe Stecher ntiaj teb npe qhov yuam kev tau "shoots" los yog tseeb contests. Tom qab rov muab cov nyiaj ntawm tus account
Sorakichi Matsuda travelled rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas lig 1883 Pib nws kev wrestling hauj lwm. Matsuda npaj kawm American kev wrestling thiab rov qab mus nws teb koj chaw pib nws tus kheej wrestling qib. Matsuda tus thawj tswj ua neeg pab leg ntaubntawv txog nws txoj kev kawm nyob rau Nyiajpoom Teb, uas yuav tsis tau qhia tau tseeb txog. Matsuda kawm nyob sumo wrestling nrog tus nto moo Isegahama ruaj khov tab sis puas tau
Tuesday, Lub rau hli ntuj 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
Dhau lub xyoo dhau los no, preservationists pom muaj ob peb wrestling films ntawm lub 1920s los ntawm cov 1950s uas tau assumed poob lawm. Kiv cua yuav saib feem ntau ntawm cov tshiab khiv sab films rau YouTube. Yog ib lub surviving films yog yim feeb ntawm ib teev, Nees nkaum feeb ntais ntawv ntawm Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hauv 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (yees duab txuas) for a
Txog hnub plaub, Tim 10, 1884, America tus thawj full-time kev wrestler, J.H.. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. Cov txiv neej wrestled ib 3-tawm ntawm-tsib ntog mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized hauv collar-and-luj tshib wrestling. Cov txiv neej wrestled ob ntog hauv collar-and-luj tshib txoj cai. Ross favored sab tuav txoj cai. The men wrestled two falls by securing side
Rau hnub Saturday, Cuaj hlis 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Hais. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. 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. Txawm li cas los, 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 specialized hauv collar-and-elbow wrestling thaum Dufur wrestled professionally hauv lub 1870s thiab 1880s. Yug rau ntuj 5, 1844, hauv Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled feem ntau nyob rau hauv lub northeastern teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled ib match nrog ib wrestler hu ua Cox ntawm lub Boston Baseball Park pem lub taub hau tsib puas kiv cua. Kiv cua tsib puas
Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Ed “Strangler” Lewis twb teem tau raws li tus tau zus ib Stanislaus Zbyszko ntawm lub St. Louis Coliseum txog hnub plaub, Hlis ntuj nqeg 14, 1922 tab sis, ntais ntawv yuav luag tus hu ua rho tawm hauj lwm vim qhov dhau ib referee xaiv. Txoog xwb tom qab cov intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos uas leej txiv neej pom zoo rau cov me nyuam. Louis
Hnub Monday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 6, 1932, 41-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled one of his last legitimate contests to settle a promotional dispute in New York. After initially being allies in promotion, Jim Londos broke away from Jack Curley’s group in New York. To restore peace, the parties decided on a legitimate contest or “shoot” to settle the dispute. Joseph "Toots" Mondt