Перший матч Кеддок-Стечер

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Я ще раз подивився на цей матч після того, як прослухав інтерв’ю підкасту Shut Up and Wrestle з Майком Чепменом, один із провідних експертів з Френка Ґотча. Майк Чепмен навів переконливий аргумент на користь своєї віри в те, що і Ерл Кеддок проти. Матчі Джо Стечера за титул чемпіона світу були «стрілянинами» або законними змаганнями. Переглянувши рахунки в

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Соракічі Мацуда помер у Нью-Йорку

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Пізніше Соракічі Мацуда приїхав до Сполучених Штатів 1883 розпочати професійну кар'єру борця. Мацуда мав намір вивчити американську професійну боротьбу та повернутися на батьківщину, щоб розпочати власну боротьбу. Менеджер Мацуди заявив про його навчання в Японії, which could not be verified. Мацуда тренувався в боротьбі сумо у знаменитій стайні Ісегахама, але це зробив

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Browning Shoots with Miyake?

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У вівторок, Червень 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

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Londos vs. Shikat in 1930

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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

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McLaughlin Mixes It Up with Ross

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На четвер, Квітень 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

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Great Gama Wrestles Stanislaus Zbyszko

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У суботу, Вересень 10, 1910, Станіслава Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Англія. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Г-н. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama

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Londos Defeats Kolov

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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. Однак, 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

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Dufur Draws with Cox

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Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. On June 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans

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Lewis and Zbyszko Argue Over Referee

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World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Душитель” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, Грудень 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. Луїс

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Lewis Shoots With Steele

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У понеділок, Грудень 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. Джозеф «Тутс» Мондт

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