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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 a 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. No início de 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. O
Na segunda-feira, Março 26, 1888, Joe Acton, 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 anos. 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 anos de idade, 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
Em Maio 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins lutou contra o gigante Nouralah Hassan na cidade de Nova York. Born in Bulgaria during 1870, Hassan stood six feet, eight inches tall and weighed 331 libras. 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
Na sexta-feira, Junho 29, 1883, fourteen wrestlers paid $50 to enter a two-day tournament for a $500 championship belt and $500 prize. Richard K. Fox, owner and publisher of the Police Gazette, put up the prize money and belt. Fox avidly supported the promotion of both professional boxing and professional wrestling. While fourteen men attempted to enter the tournament, Fox
Em agosto 4, 1939, Mort Henderson faleceu em Rochester, Nova Iorque em 60 anos de idade. Os fãs de luta livre provavelmente não se lembravam do nome Mort Henderson, mas sim de seu alter ego, a Marvel Mascarada original, ele salvou a versão de outono do 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Sam Rachmann promoted the tournament with the goal of
Quando Wladek Zbyszko viajou dos Estados Unidos para o Brasil para uma lucrativa turnê no bem desenvolvido circuito de luta livre profissional do Brasil, Zbyszko mal suspeitava que lutaria em sua primeira competição em quase vinte anos. Como seus colegas americanos, Lutadores profissionais brasileiros trabalharam juntos para fazer exibições emocionantes para os fãs. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a
Em outubro 26, 1897, Martin “Farmer” Burns defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod. Burns and McLeod were two of the top three or four catch-as-catch-can wrestlers in the United States at the time. 1,200 fans attended the match held at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy