Combat Sports Historian at Martial Artist
Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
During June 1927, the Illinois state legislature rocked the professional boxing and professional wrestling worlds when a subcommittee started investigating the state athletic commission. The legislature believed that promoters were putting on “fake” contests in both sports. Before the committee concluded its work, it suspended the boxing and wrestling licenses of 130 athletes. These revelations further disillusioned wrestling fans aggravated
Bernarr MacFadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Ilog ng Misuri, sa Agosto 16, 1868, founded a publishing company in 1899 that still operates today. MacFadden, an early proponent of physical culture, authored books and published magazine about physical culture, early bodybuilding training. MacFadden moved into pulp magazines like True Detective in the 1920s. Before MacFadden made his fortune as a publisher
Jim Londos developed a national reputation as one of the top professional wrestlers during the 1910s. Gayunman, Londos’ career took a major step forward when Londos started wrestling for the fledgling St. Louis promotion in the early 1920s. Londos headlined the first card in late 1921. Londos wrestled on the second card on Thursday, Enero 26, 1922, as well. Current
When the great Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, the boxing establishment started searching for a “white hope” to defeat Johnson. In desperation to find someone to defeat Johnson, promoters and sports writers started lobbying former World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries to end his retirement to fight Johnson. Jeffries retired undefeated in 1905. Pagkatapos
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yrvcvp86fj5ja5zg/Episode_72_agae9.mp3Podcast: I-play sa bagong window | DownloadUpdate I am giving away Wayfarer in a Foreign Land: Sorakichi Matsuda Wrestles in America between Monday, Disyembre 30, 2024 to Friday, Enero 3, 2025. Dan and I will release the next episode on Monday, Enero 13, 2025. Main Content I discuss the October 1916 mixed styles match between Taro Miyake and Ad Santel.
On Memorial Day, Mayo 30, 1925, Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko in a worked match to reclaim the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that Stecher had lost in December 1920. Stecher was part of a conspiracy that paid Stanislaus Zbyszko to double-cross Wayne “Big” Munn in April 1925. Zbyszko defeated Munn legitimately in one of professional wrestling’s most famous double-crosses. As
Sa Huwebes, Hulyo 9, 1925, Ed “Strangler” Lewis made one of the early defenses of his version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis wrestled Howard Cantonwine in front of 5,000 fans at McNulty Park. After Stanislaus Zbyszko double-crossed Sandow’s and Lewis’ promotional group by defeating Wayne “Big” Munn legitimately, both Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis
Sa Huwebes, Marso 31, 1881, 200 nag-filter ang mga tagahanga sa Turnverein Hall ng New York para panoorin si Clarence Whistler na nakikipagbuno kay Henry Moses Dufur sa isang three-out-of-five-falls catch-as-catch-can wrestling match kasama ang parehong wrestler na naka-jacket.. Ginamit ng mga promotor ang mga patakaran at mga jacket upang maging ang mga pagkakataon ng bawat wrestler na manalo. Dalubhasa si Clarence Whistler sa Greco-Roman wrestling. Kinuha ni Whistler ang World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
Sa Biyernes, Marso 11, 1932, wrestlers George Tragos and Rudy Dusek faced boxers, Stanley McRae and Tom Pivac in wrestler versus boxer bouts. It took the fans longer to get to their seats than it took the combatants to complete the bouts. The men fought the pair of bouts in Memphis, Tennessee at the Auditorium. Fans know George Tragos, isang
Si Jim Londos ay naging pinakamalaking box office star ng propesyonal na wrestling noong 1930s. Nakipagbuno ang Londos sa mga pangunahing kaganapan laban kina Ed “Strangler” Lewis at Jim Browning sa mga baseball stadium. Ang mga laban na ito ay umani ng maraming tao ng higit sa 30,000 mga tagahanga sa unang pagkakataon mula noong ikalawang Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt sa 1911. Noong nakipagbuno si Londos sa Greece, Ang Londos ay umani ng mga tao na tinatayang nasa