Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
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
W czwartek, Kwiecień 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
W sobotę, Wrzesień 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, świeżo po swojej pierwszej trasie po Stanach Zjednoczonych, walczył z Great Gamą na stadionie Shepherd’s Bush w Londynie, England. 7,000 kibice tłoczyli się na stadionie, aby obejrzeć mecz. Kilka tygodni wcześniej, Panie. Benjamin sprowadził grupę zapaśników Pehlwani z Indii na zapasy w Anglii. 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. Jednak, 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. On June 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
Mistrz świata w wadze ciężkiej w zapasach Ed “Dusiciel” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, Grudzień 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
W poniedziałek, Grudzień 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. Josepha „Tootsa” Mondta
We wtorek, Grudzień 12, 1916, local favorite, John “Tygrys z Nebraski” 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. Jednak, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, when
Na początku 1880 roku, Sorakichi Matsuda, lub Matsada w większości amerykańskich gazet, udał się do Stanów Zjednoczonych, aby walczyć zawodowo. Japonia nie miała rozwiniętego toru wrestlingu zawodowego, więc Matsuda pomyślał, że po odbyciu praktyki w Stanach Zjednoczonych sprowadzi ten sport z powrotem do Japonii. Po treningu przez jakiś czas, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. Louis, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, St. 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