แดน แม็คลอยด์ มวยปล้ำ “ชาวนา” เบิร์นส์
ตุลาคม 26, 1897, มาร์ติน “ชาวนา” เบิร์นส์ป้องกันแชมป์มวยปล้ำรุ่นเฮฟวี่เวทอเมริกันของเขากับนักมวยปล้ำชาวสก็อต Dan McLeod. Burns และ McLeod เป็นนักมวยปล้ำสองในสามหรือสี่อันดับแรกในสหรัฐอเมริกาในขณะนั้น.
1,200 แฟน ๆ เข้าร่วมการแข่งขันที่จัดขึ้นที่ Grand Opera House ในอินเดียนาโพลิส, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy carpet on a stage, where the wrestlers competed. Wrestlers transitioned to boxing rings in the 20วันที่ ศตวรรษ.
Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod circa 1909. McLeod held the American Heavyweight Championship two times. (โดเมนสาธารณะ)
McLeod possessed the size advantage. McLeod stood five feet, six inches tall but weighed 200 ปอนด์. 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 ปี. <ช่วง bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1491" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = ", เบิร์นส์เปิดตัวใน 1879 ที่ 18 ปีของอายุ. 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, เจ.เอช. 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.
นกนางแอ่น “ชาวนา” Burns performing his hanging stunt (โดเมนสาธารณะ)
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. เขา 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 และ, like Burns, trained wrestlers. McLeod trained wrestlers at the Los Angeles Athletic Club from 1913 ไปยัง 1920. McLeod died in Los Angeles in 1958 ที่ 97 ปี.
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Sources: The Elmwood Daily Record (Elmwood, Indiana), ตุลาคม 27, 1897, พี. 1, The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, แคลิฟอร์เนีย), มิถุนายน 24, 1958, พี. 59 และ wrestlingdata.com
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