George Baptiste Wins Detroit Tournament

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During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,

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Baptiste and Wasem Handle Parker

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In late 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Poľnohospodár” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Však, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Podľa 1902, George

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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Augusta 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Aspoň to som si pôvodne myslel a väčšina historikov to citovala. Moderné

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Ringer Throws Wasem

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V sobotu, November 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minutes. 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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Stecher Beats Cutler for American Title

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When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the

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Vplyv boxu na legitímny zápas

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V 10. rokoch 20. storočia, Americký profesionálny wrestling sa natrvalo presunul z legitímnych wrestlingových súťaží k vopred pripraveným exhibíciám. Záujem fanúšikov, kontrola promotéra a menšie opotrebovanie zápasníkov, to všetko zohralo úlohu v tomto prechode. Ďalší menej hovoril o tlaku bol mimo samotného športu. Pred 20. storočím, profesionálny box bol v Spojených štátoch nezákonný. Holý kĺb

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Dick Tracy, Detektívne (1945)

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RKO Pictures priniesol Dick Tracy kresleného seriálu znak na veľkej obrazovke decembra 1, 1945. Zatiaľ čo film je rozhodne “B” Film mal byť v prvom rade na dvojtitul, stále by bolo predmetom záujmu mnohých fanúšikov obľúbeného kresleného seriálu. Chester Gould created the strip in October 1931 for the Detroit

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John Berg Wins Light Heavy Championship

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John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Poľnohospodár” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 libier. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg zápasil

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Ad Santel Brings The Pain

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Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. Zatiaľ čo tento príbeh môže alebo môže

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Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt Available

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“Don’t break my leg!” As the two muscular men struggled in the center of the ring, the man on top continued to work on the downed man’s legs. Again, the man on bottom yelled, “Please don’t break my leg!“ Frank Gotch sa pozrel na svojho rivala Georga Hackenschmidta, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hackenschmidt

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