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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
Ar ddydd Iau, Ebrill 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
Ar ddydd Sadwrn, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Lloegr. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. 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. Fodd bynnag,, 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
Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. Ar Fehefin 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans
Pencampwr Reslo Pwysau Trwm y Byd Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, Rhagfyr 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. Louis
Ar ddydd Llun, Rhagfyr 6, 1932, 41-Ymladdodd Ed “Strangler” Lewis, sy’n flwydd oed, yn un o’i ornestau cyfreithlon olaf i setlo anghydfod hyrwyddo yn Efrog Newydd. Ar ôl bod yn gynghreiriaid mewn dyrchafiad i ddechrau, Torrodd Jim Londos i ffwrdd o grŵp Jack Curley yn Efrog Newydd. I adfer heddwch, penderfynodd y partïon ar ornest gyfreithlon neu “saethu” i setlo'r anghydfod. Joseph “Toots” Mondt
Ar ddydd Mawrth, Rhagfyr 12, 1916, ffefryn lleol, John “Teigr Nebraska” Pesek reslo cyd-saethwr, Al “Iseldireg” mantel, mewn gêm weithiedig. Hyfforddodd Pesek yn ddiweddar gyda chyd-reslwr Nebraska a Phencampwr y Byd cydnabyddedig Joe Stecher cyn y gêm hon. Datblygodd Pesek enw drwg-enwog am saethu gyda reslwyr eraill. Fodd bynnag,, Roedd Pesek yn ddyn ifanc 22 oed ac yn dal i ddysgu reslo, when
Yn y 1880au cynnar, Sorakichi Matsuda, neu Matsada yn y rhan fwyaf o bapurau newydd America, teithio i'r Unol Daleithiau i reslo'n broffesiynol. Nid oedd gan Japan gylched reslo proffesiynol datblygedig, felly roedd Matsuda yn meddwl y byddai'n dod â'r gamp yn ôl i Japan ar ôl prentisiaeth yn yr Unol Daleithiau. Ar ôl hyfforddi am ychydig, Arwyddodd Matsuda gytundeb i ymaflyd yn y cyntaf
Dechreuodd Oscar Wasem ei yrfa yn St. Louis, Missouri dan ofal George Baptiste. Roedd Wasem yn reslwr digon da y trechodd Wasem Frank Gotch ifanc ynddo 1901. Wasem, yr St. Louis Pencampwr, pinio Gotch, y Pencampwr Iowa. Tra aeth Gotch ymlaen i fod yn reslwr proffesiynol cyfreithlon mwyaf America, Arhosodd Wasem yn siwrnai gadarn. Ategodd Wasem ei weithiwr proffesiynol