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Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
In the 1910s, American professional wrestling permanently moved from legitimate wrestling contests to prearranged exhibitions. Fan interest, promoter control and less wear and tear on the wrestlers all played a role in this transition. Another less talked about pressure was outside of the sport itself. Prior to the 20th Century, professional boxing was illegal in the United States. Bare knuckle
RKO duab coj tuaj rau Dick Tracy comic sawb cim rau qhov loj screen rau hlis ntuj nqeg 1, 1945. Hos cov naam mas nws yeej yog ib tug “B” zaj duab xis mus ua ntej ntawm qhov nqi ob chav meant, Nws tseem yuav tau cov paj laum rau cov kiv cua nrov comic sawb. Chester Gould tsim lub sawb lub kaum hli ntuj 1931 for the Detroit
Earl Caddock had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock only wrestled professionally until 1922. Txawm li cas los, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back
John Berg yog ib tug zoo txaus wrestler ntsia Martin “Ua teb” Burns ob zaug tab sis yog feem coob xav li cas txog li ib tug sib zog zoo wrestler. Berg nyob rau lub ntiaj teb sib Heavyweight Wrestling Championship nyob hauv lub caij 1910s thiab competed tus Middleweight Title, uas yog contested rau 158 phaus. Berg tu luj ntawm plaub phaus tiam sis yeej ntais ntawv. Berg wrestled in
"Tsis txhob dam kuv txhais ceg!"Raws li tus ob tug txiv neej npag struggled nyob rau hauv qhov chaw ntawm lub nplhaib, tus txiv neej nyob rau saum tseem ua hauj lwm rau tus txiv neej ntawd tsis ceg. Dua, Hmoob txawm cem tus txiv neej nyob hauv qab, "Thov txhob dam kuv txhais ceg!” Frank Gotch looked over at his rival George Hackenschmidt, uas yog writhing cuab kev mob. Dua li ntawm ib lub hauv caug mob mob, Hackenschmidt
Thaum pib 1911, tus wrestling pej xeem pom tias peb cov txiv neej yuav kev loj tshaj xub mus reigning ntiaj teb tau zus ib Frank Gotch. Tau zus ib tus George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko thiab “Qhov txaus ntshai Turk” Yussif Mahmout xav ntsia Gotch cov uas muaj. Gotch, tsis muaj leej twg lub dag lub, decided to take some of the starch out of his challengers by matching them up
Ib cov lus nug muaj hnub nyoog laus nyob hauv txhua qhov kev ua si puas yog “Leej twg yuav yeej ib boxer thiab ib wrestler?” Lub speculation nyob ib ncig ntawm qhov lo lus nug mus rau ob peb boxer ntev wrestler qhov yuam kev ntawm paub keeb kwm, tus phem tshaj notably Muhammad Ali thiab Antonio Inoki hauv 1976. Qhov yuam kev ntawm cov saibxyuas no-win affairs tsuas yog nyob rau qhov chaw ua hauj lwm, which is why both promoters
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 23, 1903, Frank Gotch cov kwv tij mus Bellingham, Washington coj ntawm ib tug 6’05”, 215 phaus Native American wrestler ntawm Montana. Wrestling kiv cua nyob rau sab yog Chief Two Feathers yuav unbeatable. Frank Gotch twb tsis impressed nrog nws lub koob npe nrov, tiam sis nws Gotch cov feem seeb muab 15 feeb ntawm nws cov hauj lwm. Chief Two Feathers entered the
Tuesday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 19, 1909, Dr. Rau cov menyuam Benjamin, ib tus kws kho mob Seattle thiab pro wrestler uas yog zoo ces yeej tau tus American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably leej ua tiag tes ntawm kev boxing. Tus nrog sib ntaus nws yog phooj ywg thiab sparring tus hlub, “Denver” Ed Martin, leej twg yuav yeej tus dawb lias ntiaj teb Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
Kuv nyuam qhuav tas Evan "The Strangler" Lewis: Lub Wrestler Feared tshaj plaws ntawm lub xyoo pua puv 19. Evan Lewis yog tus cuav koom cuag lub sij hawm qhov tseeb kev wrestling era txawm hais tias nws puas tau koom nrog ua ob peb prearranged qhov yuam kev. Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 1886, Evan Lewis siv nws dreaded stranglehold nyob Sorakichi Matsada. Raws li ob peb nqi ntawv xov xwm, Lewis sim “strangle Sorakichi to