Stanislaus Zbyszko Tours í 1910

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Í seint 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko ferðast til Bandaríkjanna til að skora heim Heavyweight glímukappi Frank Gotch. Áður en fundur Gotch, Zbyszko tónleikaferð til Bandaríkjanna og berjast mörgum staðbundnum wrestlers allan fyrri hluta 1910. Zbyszko myndi ferðast 37,000 kílómetra. Snemma í ferð hans, Zbyszko hitti Frank Gotch í fötlunar leik. Zbyszko sigraði Gotch, sem var

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Ringer Throws Wasem

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Á laugardag, Nóvember 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 mínútur. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem possessed

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Gotch crushes Jenkins fyrir Title

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Á fimmtudaginn, Janúar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins varði bandaríska glímumeistaramótið sitt gegn upprennandi glímumanni frá Iowa. After the first fall, aðdáendurnir áttuðu sig á því að þetta var erfiðasti leikurinn á c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins hafði sigrað Gotch's

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Whistler and Ross Disgust Crowd

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After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Nóvember 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman

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Henry Moses Dufur endurminningar

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Henry Moses Dufur var heimsmeistari í kraga og olnboga í þungavigt á áttunda áratugnum. Með 1855, Dufur hætti í atvinnuglímu til að stunda fullt starf sitt sem fatasmiður. Jafnvel á glímuferli sínum, Dufur vann sem klæðskera. Dufur sagði við fréttaritara The Boston Globe að hann væri fæddur í Richford, Vermont í júní 5, 1943. Þessi dagsetning dags

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Dan Daly Beats Ed Kelly

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In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in

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Tom Allen Fights Bill Davis

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Á 19. öld, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful

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