George Baptiste Wins Detroit Tournament

喬治 - 巴蒂斯特

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

喬治 - 巴蒂斯特

在後期 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 “農民” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. 然而, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. 路易, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. 通過 1902, 喬治·

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Ringer Throws Wasem

奧斯卡·瓦瑟姆

上週六, 十一月 25, 1899, 聖. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 分鐘. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. 路易’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. 瓦西姆著身

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Stecher Beats Cutler for American Title

喬·斯特徹

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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Ad Santel Brings The Pain

廣告-桑特爾

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. While this story may or may

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