插曲 20 – 松田空吉
在这一集, 我讨论松田空吉的职业生涯, 19 世纪的日本职业摔跤手.
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I discuss the new podcast schedule. 希望, 下一集 Caleb 会和我一起回来. 我会在每个月的第二个星期一发布一集. 如果日程安排允许, a second episode will be released on the fourth Monday of every month.
I also discuss tapping out on modern pro wrestling.
Sorakichi Matsuda and Ernst Roeber demonstrating wrestling in the late 1880s
主要内容
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 “在扼杀” 刘易斯.
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,” 在 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.
Review
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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