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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 mus 1930.
Thaum lub 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. Tom qab
Nyob lig 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 “Ua teb” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Txawm li cas los, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Los ntawm 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,
Nyob rau hnub tim 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
Rau lub yim hli ntuj 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis ntsib tus British Wrestling tau zus ib ntuag Cannon hauv Cincinnati, Ohio. Thaum qhov tseeb wrestling era, lwm wrestlers ntshai cov haib Lewis vim nws stranglehold. Lewis ua hauj lwm ib carotid arterial zawm peb paub los lawm li rear liab qab txhawm chim hauv 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
Rau hnub Saturday, Kaum ib hlis 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling kiv cua tej tus poob siab, Thaum ib tus wrestler mus xyuas yooj yim txawb hauv zos tau zus ib Oscar Wasem rau ib tug me dhau 20 feeb. Tom qab yeej yooj yim, kiv cua tsw ib nas, thaum lub “Indianapolis Cyclone” rau nrog ib tus neeg luag Iwm haiv neeg Lancashire. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste li cov me nyuam. Louis’ wrestling tau tau zus ib ntawm cov mus-1890s. Wasem possessed
William Muldoon, lub ntiaj teb Greco-Roman Wrestling tau zus ib thiab lub nyuas proponent, tuaj Los Angeles Tuesday, Tim 15, 1884 rau lub zos wrestler Fred Bauer ntsej muag. Ntais ntawv muab qhov chaw nyob lub zos Turnvereine nrog rau hauv Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
Tus International Wrestling kev sib tw tshwm sim nyob rau hauv ob theem ntawm ntuj 19, 1915 thiab hlis ntuj nqeg 31, 1915. TSIBCAUG wrestlers yuav lwv hauv tus thawj theem ntawm cov kev sib tw xws li ntiaj teb Greco-Roman tau zus ib Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Qhov thib ob phuv muaj 40 wrestlers nrog rau cov tuaj thiab cov hnub qub tom ntej Ed “Strangler” Lewis, uas koom ib lub hlis rau cov kev sib tw rau lub kaum ib hlis 22, 1915. Tus
Kuv xub nyeem txog William Muldoon hauv ib biography of John L. Sullivan, cov hnub mus khaws khauj tsiav heavyweight tau zus ib. Sullivan ushered hauv boxing los yog tsis kam koom tes mus khaws muaj khauj tsiav bouts. Lub xeem loj yas tes mus khaws bout yog fought ntawm Sullivan thaiv Jake Kilrain nyob rau hauv 1889. Yuav muaj tseeb los tiv thaiv Sullivan, ib binge drinker indulging hnyav ncawv ntawm bouts. Nws yog