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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 да се 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
Кон крајот 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 “Земјоделец” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Сепак, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Со 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,
На април 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
Во август 26, 1886, Еван “Strangler” 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” Åberg. 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
Во саботата, Ноември 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 минути. 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. Васем опседнат
Вилијам Muldoon, Светската грчко-римски шампион во борење и физичката култура поборник, дојде во Лос Анџелес во вторникот, Април 15, 1884 да се соочи со локални борач Фред Бауер. Натпреварот се одржа во локалната Turnvereine сала во Лос Анџелес. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Меѓународната борење турнир се случи во две фази во периодот од мај 19, 1915 и декември 31, 1915. Педесет борачи ќе се натпреварува во првата фаза на турнирот, вклучувајќи Светската грчко-римски шампион Александар “Alex” Åberg. На втората рата имаше 40 борачи вклучувајќи и доаѓаат ѕвезда Ед “Strangler” Луис, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. На
Јас прв пат да прочитате за Вилијам Muldoon во биографијата на Џон Л. Саливан, последните голи зглоб шампион во тешка категорија. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. Последниот голем голи зглоб рунда се водела од страна на Саливан против Џејк Kilrain во 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. Тој беше