Επεισόδιο 20 – Sorakichi Matsada

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Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο, Συζητάω την καριέρα του Σοράκιτσι Ματσάντα, Ιάπωνας επαγγελματίας παλαιστής του 19ου αιώνα.

Update

I discuss the new podcast schedule. Ας ελπίσουμε, Ο Caleb θα είναι πίσω μαζί μου για το επόμενο επεισόδιο. Θα κυκλοφορήσω ένα επεισόδιο τη δεύτερη Δευτέρα κάθε μήνα. Εάν το επιτρέπει ο προγραμματισμός, a second episode will be released on the fourth Monday of every month.

I also discuss tapping out on modern pro wrestling.

Main Content

I discuss the 7 and half year career of Sorakichi Matsada. Matsada travelled to the United States in 1883 to learn professional wrestling. Matsada intended to return to Japan and establish a professional wrestling circuit.

In his short career, Matsada wrestled World Champion William Muldoon, multiple American Heavyweight Wrestling Champions and was almost killed by Evan “Ο Στραγγαλιστής” Λουδοβίκος.

Matsada also married an American heiress although the marriage was not a happy one. She left him after only a couple months of marriage charging cruel treatment.

Matsada never saw his dream fulfilled as he contracted tuberculosis, “consumption,” σε 1891. Barely able to walk across the street to his social club, Matsada died in New York City in 1892.

Whether Matsada would have succeeded in starting a Japanese professional wrestling circuit or not, he proved himself a forward thinker and pioneer in the burgeoning sport.

Κριτική

In the 1950s, broadcasters showed Chicago wrestling matches throughout the United States. Fred Koehler promoted the matches and his big star was Verne Gagne, a former NCAA Wrestling Champion.

In the mid-1950s, Gagne wrestled Dick the Bruiser at the Chicago International Amphitheater not the Marigold Arena as I said on the podcast. The link will take you to YouTube, where you can watch the match.

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