Ahli Sejarah Sukan Pertempuran dan Seniman Mempertahankan Diri
Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Baru-baru ini saya menemui klip tiga minit di YouTube, yang termasuk dua daripada Jim Londos’ perlawanan dari tahun 1930-an. Dalam perlawanan pertama, Londos bergelut dengan Abe Coleman. Dalam perlawanan kedua, Londos bergelut perlawanan gaya campuran dengan Oki Shikina, yang dilatih oleh Taro Miyake, tali pinggang hitam Judo dan ahli gusti profesional. Londos adalah bintang box office terbesar
Pada hari Jumaat, November 27, 1891, bekas Juara Wrestling Heavyweight Amerika Joe Acton bergelut dengan Juara Tinju Heavyweight Dunia Bob Fitzsimmons masa depan di San Francisco, California. Lelaki itu bergelut untuk dilaporkan $1,000.00 purse. Acton biasanya melepaskan saiz kepada lawannya tetapi Acton mengatasi Fitzsimmons seberat 148 paun sebanyak tujuh paun. Lelaki itu bergusti dua daripada tiga perlawanan jatuh mengikut gusti tangkap-tangkap-tin
Pada Disember 17, 1923, Jim Browning bergelut dengan perlawanan yang jarang berlaku di kampung halamannya di Verona, Missouri. Empat ratus peminat dari kawasan sekitar berkerumun ke venue untuk menyaksikan perlawanan antara Browning dan Clarence Jenkins, seorang ahli gusti dari Emporia, Kansas. Kedua-dua Browning dan Jenkins bergelut dalam kebanyakan perlawanan mereka di Kansas semasa 1923. Browning memulakan kerjaya itu
Pada November 18, 1938, bekas juara gusti dunia Jim Londos bergelut dengan juara dunia semasa Bronko Nagurski, bekas pemain bola sepak yang hebat untuk Chicago Bears. Lelaki itu bergelut di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania untuk kejohanan gusti dunia versi Nagurski. Anda boleh melihat perlawanan selama 14 minit itu secara keseluruhannya di YouTube. Apabila saya melihat perlawanan itu buat kali pertama, several
Pada Mei 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, Ohio. Ismail only toured the United States for six months in the early part of 1898. Ismail wrestled less than ten matches but left a path of destruction remembered to this day. Ismail made a powerful impression by easily defeating both Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Ismail also made a strong
John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek bergelut dengan dua pertandingan sah yang paling terkenal pada tahun 1920-an. Pesek menamatkan dua perang promosi dengan bersetuju untuk "menembak" pertandingan dengan Marin Plestina dan Nat Pendelton. Dalam 1916, Pesek ialah seorang ahli gusti yang sedang aktif di negeri asalnya Nebraska. Pada hari Khamis, September 14, 1916, Pesek bergelut dengan seorang lagi ahli gusti Nebraska, Chris Jordan. Peminat dan
Born Norman Edward Wescoatt in Hawaii on August 2, 1911, “Rusty” Wescoatt played football for the University of Hawaii before making his professional wrestling debut in Hawaii during 1933. Wescoatt was also a swimming champion. Wescoatt initially made more news for his swimming than his wrestling when he traveled to the continental United States in 1935. On Easter Sunday, April
Stanislaus Zbyszko toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis on May 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George
I am ashamed to say I recently discovered the career of Cora Livingston, while researching the development of the local promotor system in professional wrestling during the 1910s and 1920s. Mildred Burke was the first major woman’s wrestling champion of which I was aware. Walau bagaimanapun, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
Pada Mac 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed on the last night of the International Wrestling Tournament in Detroit, Michigan. The tournament ran for almost two months before the finale on March 10th. Wrestling historians frequently credit J. H. McLaughlin as being the first professional wrestler to live only on his earnings as a professional wrestler. Most professional wrestlers