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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 arte 1930.
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. After
Urtearen bukaeran 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Baserritarrak” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Hala ere, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Arabera 1902, George
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
Apirilaren 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross met Sorakichi Matsuda, also known as Matsada, the first Japanese professional wrestler in the United States. Matsuda immigrated to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler because it didn’t really exist in Japan at the time. 28-year-old Duncan Ross was born in Turkey of Scottish descent on March
Abuztuaren On 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis britainiar Borroka txapelduna Tom Cannon ezagutu Cincinnati, Ohio. Legitimoa borroka garaian, Beste wrestlers beldurgarri boteretsuena Lewis delako bere stranglehold. Lewis carotid arteria strangle bat Judo biluzik atzeko choke bezala ezagutzen okupatuak. At least that was what I originally thought and most historians have quoted. Modern
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into
Larunbatean, Azaroa 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minutu. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem possessed
William Muldoon, Mundu greko-erromatar Borroka txapelduna eta kultura fisiko aitzindaria, Los Angelesera iritsi ziren asteartean, Apirila 15, 1884 tokiko Wrestler Fred Bauer aurre egiteko. Partida futbol tokiko Turnvereine Hall Los Angelesen. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Nazioarteko Borroka Txapelketa bi fasetan gertatu maiatza bitartean 19, 1915 eta abenduaren 31, 1915. Fifty wrestlers txapelketako lehenengo fasea barne Mundu greko-erromatar txapelduna Aleksander lehiatuko litzateke “Alex” Aberg. Bigarren zatikako izan 40 wrestlers up barne eta izar Ed datozen “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
I first read about William Muldoon in a biography of John L. Sullivan, the last bare knuckle heavyweight champion. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. The last major bare knuckle bout was fought by Sullivan against Jake Kilrain in 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. Zituenetik