ড্যান ম্যাকলিওড রেসলস “কৃষক” বার্নস

অক্টোবর 26, 1897, মার্টিন "ফার্মার" বার্নস স্কটিশ ক্যাচ রেসলার ড্যান ম্যাকলিওডের বিরুদ্ধে তার আমেরিকান হেভিওয়েট রেসলিং চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপ রক্ষা করেছেন. বার্নস এবং ম্যাকলিওড সেই সময়ে মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের শীর্ষ তিন বা চারটি ক্যাচ-অ্যাস-ক্যাচ-ক্যান কুস্তিগীর ছিলেন।.

1,200 ইন্ডিয়ানাপোলিসের গ্র্যান্ড অপেরা হাউসে অনুষ্ঠিত ম্যাচে ভক্তরা উপস্থিত ছিলেন, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy carpet on a stage, where the wrestlers competed. Wrestlers transitioned to boxing rings in the 20^th Century.

McLeod possessed the size advantage. McLeod stood five feet, six inches tall but weighed 200 পাউন্ড. McLeod was more thickly muscled than the five feet, ten-inch, 165-pound Burns. Burns was strong for his size, but McLeod possessed the power advantage.

Both men were 36 বছর. <বিঘত bbox_x = "289" bbox_y = "724" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" লাল = "255" সবুজ = "255" নীল = "255" আলফা = ", Burns debuted in 1879 এ 18 বয়স বছর. McLeod did not start wrestling until 1890 giving Burns an eleven-year experience advantage. It also meant Burns had a lot more mileage on his body from wars in the ring with Evan “Strangler” Lewis, জে.এইচ. McLaughlin, and Charles Green.

After preparing for the match over a year prior, Burns won the American Heavyweight Title from Evan “Strangler” Lewis on April 20, 1895. Burns defended the championship for two years looking dominant in the process. Still, fans and pundits saw McLeod as a serious challenger.

The newspaper reporters filed short, straightforward accounts of this title match leading me to believe the match itself was uneventful. Onlookers often found matches between evenly matched wrestlers to be boring for lack of action. Newspaper reporters often did not have much to write about in the legitimate era.

McLeod won the first fall. He used the neck and crotch hold to pin Burns in twenty-three minutes.

Burns evened it up in the second fall using a combination arm and hammerlock. The newspaper coverage did not detail whether McLeod submitted to the hold or whether Burns pinned him.

McLeod used a half-Nelson from the front to turn Burns onto his back for the third fall at seventeen minutes, thirty seconds. As the fans celebrate, the referee raised McLeod’s signifying he was the new American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.

Immediately after his victory, Tom Jenkins and Evan “Strangler” Lewis challenged McLeod for his new championship. Jenkins proved to be McLeod’s biggest rival for the American Title.

Martin “Farmer” Burns built a legendary career as both a wrestler and trainer. After losing his title, Burns transitioned into a new career as a trainer. তিনি discovered Frank Gotch in 1899.

Dan McLeod held the title for four years, lost it and had one more run with the championship. He retired in 1913 এবং, like Burns, trained wrestlers. McLeod trained wrestlers at the Los Angeles Athletic Club from 1913 <বিঘত bbox_x = "611" bbox_y = "928" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" লাল = "255" সবুজ = "255" নীল = "255" আলফা = " 1920. McLeod died in Los Angeles in 1958 এ 97 বছর.

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Sources: The Elmwood Daily Record (Elmwood, Indiana), অক্টোবর 27, 1897, পি. 1, লস এঞ্জেলেস টাইমস (Los Angeles, ক্যালিফর্নিয়া), জুন 24, 1958, পি. 59 and wrestlingdata.com

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