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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
يوم الخميس, أبريل 10, 1884, America’s first full-time professional wrestler, J.H. McLaughlin wrestled all-around Scottish athlete and wrestler Duncan C. Ross at Detroit’s Opera House. The men wrestled a three-out-of-five falls mixed styles match. McLaughlin specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled two falls under collar-and-elbow rules. Ross favored side hold rules. The men wrestled two falls by securing side
يوم السبت, سبتمبر 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, انجلترا. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, السيد. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. لكن, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
تخصص هنري موسى دوفور في مصارعة الياقات والمرفق عندما تصارع دوفور بشكل احترافي في سبعينيات وثمانينيات القرن التاسع عشر.. ولد في مايو 5, 1844, in Richmond, فيرمونت, تصارع دوفور في المقام الأول في شمال شرق الولايات المتحدة. حزيران 27, 1878, صارع دوفور في مباراة العودة مع مصارع اسمه كوكس في ملعب بوسطن للبيسبول أمام خمسمائة مشجع. خمسمائة معجب
World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “خانق” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, ديسمبر 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. لويس
يوم الاثنين, ديسمبر 6, 1932, 41-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled one of his last legitimate contests to settle a promotional dispute in New York. After initially being allies in promotion, Jim Londos broke away from Jack Curley’s group in New York. To restore peace, the parties decided on a legitimate contest or “shoot” to settle the dispute. جوزيف "توتس" موندت
يوم الثلاثاء, ديسمبر 12, 1916, local favorite, جون “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. لكن, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, when
In the early 1880s, Sorakichi Matsuda, أو ماتسادا في معظم الصحف الأمريكية, سافر إلى الولايات المتحدة ليصارع باحتراف. لم يكن لدى اليابان دائرة مصارعة محترفة متطورة, لذلك اعتقد ماتسودا أنه سيعيد الرياضة إلى اليابان بعد تدريب مهني في الولايات المتحدة. بعد التدريب لفترة, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. لويس, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, سانت. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional