Historiador de esportes de combate e artista marcial
Postagens sobre wrestling profissional no século 19 e início do século 20.
Recentemente, descobri um clipe de três minutos no YouTube, que incluiu dois de Jim Londons’ jogos da década de 1930. na primeira partida, Londos luta contra Abe Coleman. na segunda partida, Londos luta uma luta de estilos mistos com Oki Shikina, que foi treinado por Taro Miyake, o faixa preta de judô e lutador profissional. Londons foi a maior estrela de bilheteria
Na sexta-feira, Novembro 27, 1891, O ex-campeão americano de luta livre dos pesos pesados, Joe Acton, lutou contra o futuro campeão mundial de boxe dos pesos pesados, Bob Fitzsimmons, em San Francisco, Califórnia. Os homens lutaram por um relatado $1,000.00 purse. Acton geralmente cedeu tamanho para seu oponente, mas Acton superou os Fitzsimmons de 148 libras em sete libras. Os homens lutaram uma luta de duas de três quedas de acordo com o catch-as-catch-can wrestling
Em dezembro de 17, 1923, Jim Browning lutou uma luta rara em sua cidade natal, Verona, Missouri. Quatrocentos torcedores dos arredores lotaram o local para assistir à partida entre Browning e Clarence Jenkins, um lutador de Emporia, Kansas. Tanto Browning quanto Jenkins lutaram a maioria de suas lutas no Kansas durante 1923. Browning estava começando uma carreira que
Em novembro 18, 1938, ex-campeão mundial de luta livre Jim Londos lutou contra o atual campeão mundial Bronko Nagurski, o grande ex-jogador de futebol do Chicago Bears. Os homens lutaram na Filadélfia, Pensilvânia para a versão de Nagurski do campeonato mundial de luta livre. Você pode ver a partida de 14 minutos na íntegra no YouTube. Quando vi a partida pela primeira vez, several
Em Maio 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 wrestled two of the most famous legitimate contests of the 1920s. Pesek ended two promotional wars by agreeing to “shoot” contests with Marin Plestina and Nat Pendelton. Em 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. Na quinta-feira, Setembro 14, 1916, Pesek wrestled another Nebraska wrestler, Chris Jordan. Fans and
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, Abril
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. However, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
Em março 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