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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. Nakon
In late 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 “Seljak” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Međutim, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Po 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,
Travanj 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
Kolovoza 26, 1886, Evan “Davitelj” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in 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
U subotu, Studeni 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 zapisnik. 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 je opsjednut
William Muldoon, Svjetska hrvanju grčko-rimskim prvak i fizičke kulture zagovornik, došao u Los Angelesu u utorak, Travanj 15, 1884 suočiti s lokalnom hrvač Fred Bauer. Utakmica dogodio na lokalnoj Turnvereine Hall u Los Angelesu. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Međunarodni turnir u hrvanju dogodila u dvije faze, u razdoblju od svibnja 19, 1915 i prosinac 31, 1915. Pedeset hrvači će se natjecati u prvoj fazi turnira, uključujući Svjetski grčko-rimskom prvak Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Druga rata imala 40 hrvači uključujući i dolaze s tri zvjezdice u Edu “Davitelj” Klin dizač, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
Prvo sam čitao o Williamu Muldoon u biografiji John L. Sullivan, Posljednji golom koljenica prvak u teškoj kategoriji. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. Posljednji veliki golom koljenica bout se borio Sullivan protiv Jake Kilrain u 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. Bio je