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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 에 1930.
Dan McLeod defeated Martin “Farmer” Burns for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship during October 1897. McLeod held the championship for four years until he met Frank Gotch’s toughest opponent, Tom Jenkins. 초기에 1899, McLeod made a couple title defenses in Minnesota. On February 24, 1899, McLeod wrestled St. Louis Middleweight Wrestling Champion George Baptiste at Conover Hall in front
Professional wrestling evolved into an athletic exhibition from legitimate contests for two reasons. I have written extensively about the first reason. Legitimate contests between equally skilled wrestlers were often long, boring affairs with little action. These contests turned off fans and prevented professional wrestling exploding as a spectator sport. I have not written as much about the second reason. The
월요일에, 행진 26, 1888, 조 액턴, who specialized in catch wrestling, wrestled Professor William Miller, an Australian wrestler, and bare-knuckle prizefighter, in a two-out-of-three-falls Greco-Roman wrestling match. Both men’s camps believed wrestling the match in this style ensured the fairest contest between them. The men wrestled for $500.00 a side. 1,500 fans, a large crowd for the era, turned
Prior to wrestling in Kentucky in the early 1910s, wrestling fans knew Ed “Strangler” Lewis as Bob Fredrichs. Born Robert Friedrich in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Lewis made his professional wrestling debut in 1905, while still only 14 세. Kentucky promoters thought Bob Fredrichs too plain, so Lewis chose his new name as an homage to fellow Wisconsin native and original
At nearly 70 살, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking
월에 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins wrestled the giant Nouralah Hassan in New York City. Born in Bulgaria during 1870, Hassan stood six feet, eight inches tall and weighed 331 파운드. While Jenkins possessed superior wrestling skill, fans and reporters expected Hassan’s immense size to present problems for Jenkins. Promoters booked the men to wrestle at Madison Square Garden in
금요일에, 6월 29, 1883, 14 명의 레슬링 선수가 지불했습니다. $50 이틀간의 토너먼트에 참가하기 위해 $500 챔피언 벨트와 $500 상. 리차드 K. Fox, Police Gazette의 소유자이자 발행인, 상금과 벨트를 매다. Fox는 프로 복싱과 프로 레슬링의 홍보를 열렬히 지원했습니다.. 14명의 남자가 대회 참가를 시도하는 동안, Fox
8 월 4, 1939, Mort Henderson passed away in Rochester, New York at 60 살. Wrestling fans likely did not remember the name Mort Henderson but as his alter ego, the original Masked Marvel, he saved the fall version of the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Sam Rachmann promoted the tournament with the goal of
When Wladek Zbyszko travelled from the United States to Brazil for a lucrative tour on Brazil’s well-developed professional wrestling circuit, Zbyszko little suspected that he would wrestle his first contest in almost twenty years. Like their American counterparts, Brazilian professional wrestlers worked with each other to put on exciting exhibitions for the fans. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a
10월에 26, 1897, Martin "Farmer" Burns는 스코틀랜드 캐치 레슬러 Dan McLeod를 상대로 미국 헤비급 레슬링 챔피언십을 방어했습니다.. Burns와 McLeod는 당시 미국에서 3~4명의 캐치 캐치캔 레슬러 중 두 명이었습니다.. 1,200 인디애나폴리스 그랜드 오페라 하우스에서 열린 경기를 관람한 팬들, Indiana. 발기인은 종종 매트 또는 무거운