格鬥運動史學家和武術家
有關19世紀和20世紀初職業摔跤的文章.
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
上週五, 十一月 27, 1891, 前美國重量級摔角冠軍喬·阿克頓在舊金山與未來世界重量級拳擊冠軍鮑勃·菲茨西蒙斯摔跤, 加州. 男子們為爭取報道而扭打 $1,000.00 purse. 阿克頓通常會向對手放棄體型，但阿克頓比 148 磅重的菲茨西蒙斯重了 7 磅. 男子摔跤比賽按照接球摔跤的方式進行，三分之二摔倒
十二月 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, 密蘇里州. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, 堪薩斯州. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
十一月 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
在5月 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, 俄亥俄. 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. 在 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. 上週四, 九月 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, 四月
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. 然而, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. 科拉利文斯頓
三月 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed on the last night of the International Wrestling Tournament in Detroit, 密歇根. The tournament ran for almost two months before the finale on March 10th. Wrestling historians frequently credit J. ħ. McLaughlin as being the first professional wrestler to live only on his earnings as a professional wrestler. Most professional wrestlers