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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 a 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
Na tarde 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 “Agricultor” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. However, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Por 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,
Em abril de 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
Em agosto 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis conheceu o Wrestling campeão britânico Tom canhão em Cincinnati, Ohio. Durante a era da luta legítima, outros lutadores temia o poderoso Lewis por causa de seu domínio. Lewis empregou uma estrangulamento arterial carótida conhecido como mata-leão no 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
No sábado, Novembro 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 possessed
William Muldoon, Wrestling Campeão do Mundo Greco-romano e defensor da cultura física, veio para Los Angeles na terça-feira, Abril 15, 1884 para enfrentar o lutador local, Fred Bauer. A partida teve lugar no Turnvereine Municipal local em Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
O Torneio Internacional de Wrestling ocorreu em duas fases, entre maio 19, 1915 e Dezembro 31, 1915. Cinqüenta wrestlers iria competir na primeira fase do torneio, incluindo o Campeão do Mundo Greco-romana Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. A segunda parcela tinha 40 lutadores, incluindo para cima e próximos estrela Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. O
Comecei a ler sobre William Muldoon em uma biografia de John L. Sullivan, o último Bare Knuckle campeão dos pesos pesados. Sullivan ushered in gloved boxing by refusing to take part in any more bare knuckle bouts. O último grande ataque nua junta foi travada por Sullivan contra Jake Kilrain em 1889. Odds were against Sullivan, a binge drinker indulging heavily between bouts. Ele era