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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 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
Go déanach 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 “Feirmeoir” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Mar sin féin, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. De réir 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,
Ar Aibreán 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
Ar Lúnasa 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis bhuail an Wrestling Breataine Champion Tom Cannon i Cincinnati, Ohio. Le linn na ré dlisteanach wrestling, wrestlers eile eagla an Lewis cumhachtach mar gheall ar a stranglehold. Lewis fostaithe strangle artaireach carotid a dtugtar an choke naked cúil i Judo. 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
Ar Dé Sathairn, Samhain 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minutes. 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 i seilbh
William Muldoon, an Wrestling Champion Domhanda Greco-Roman agus togróir cultúr fisiciúil, tháinig go dtí Los Angeles ar an Máirt, Aibreán 15, 1884 chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar an wrestler áitiúil Fred Bauer. Bhí an cluiche ar siúl ag an áitiúil Turnvereine Halla i Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Tharla an Ilchomórtas Wrestling Idirnáisiúnta in dhá chéim idir Bealtaine 19, 1915 agus mí na Nollag 31, 1915. Bheadh caoga wrestlers iomaíocht sa chéad chéim den tournament lena n-áirítear an Domhain Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Bhí an dara tráthchuid 40 wrestlers lena n-áirítear suas agus ag teacht réalta Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. An
Léigh mé an chéad faoi William Muldoon i beathaisnéis John L. Sullivan, an knuckle lom trom curadh deiridh. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. Troideadh an mór-bout knuckle lom go deireanach le Sullivan i gcoinne Jake Kilrain i 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. He was