Hnub: Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling

Dan McLeod tua yeej Martin "Farmer" Burns rau cov American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship thaum lub kaum hli ntuj 1897. McLeod tuav lub championship plaub xyoos mus txog rau thaum nws ntsib Frank Gotch toughest tus nrog sib ntaus, Tom Jenkins. Thaum ntxov 1899, McLeod ua ob peb lub npe defenses hauv Minnesota. Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 24, 1899, McLeod wrestled St. Louis Middleweight Wrestling Champion George Baptiste ntawm Conover nrog pem lub taub hau

Kev wrestling evolved rau hauv ib exhibition exhibition ntawm tseeb contests rau ob yam. Kuv tau sau ntawv kim heev txog thawj vim li cas. Tseeb contests ntawm equally skilled wrestlers tau feem ntau ntev, boring affairs nrog me ntsis tes hauj lwm. Cov contests muab tua kiv cua thiab tiv thaiv kev wrestling exploding ua ib spectator kev ua si nawv. Kuv tsis tau sau ntau txog qhov thib ob. Tus

Ua ntej wrestling hauv Kentucky hauv lub 1910s thaum ntxov, Wrestling kiv cua paub Ed "Strangler" Lewis li Bob Fredrichs. Yug Robert Friedrich hauv Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Lewis ua nws kev wrestling debut hauv 1905, tseem tsuas 14 xyoo. Kentucky promoters xav Bob Fredrichs ib yam nkaus thiab dawb, Ces Lewis xaiv nws lub npe tshiab raws li ib homage rau koj txog haujlwm Wisconsin haiv neeg thiab thawj

Saum ntuj 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins wrestled tus giant Nouralah Hassan nyob New York City. Yug hauv Bulgaria thaum lub sij hawm 1870, Hassan sawv rau taw, yim nti siab thiab weighed 331 phaus. Thaum Jenkins possessed superior wrestling txawj ntse, Kiv cua thiab reporters xav pom Hassan tus immense loj los tam sim no teeb meem rau Jenkins. Promoters booked cov txiv neej mus wrestle ntawm Madison Square vaj nyob rau hauv

Rau lub yim hli ntuj 4, 1939, Mort Henderson kis tseg hauv Rochester, New York nyob New York nyob New York ntawm 60 xyoo. Wrestling kiv cua yuav tsis nco ntsoov lub npe Mort Henderson tab sis raws li nws alter ego, Tus thawj Masked Marvel, Nws rua lub caij nplooj zeeg version ntawm tus 1915 Tseev tsim ntiaj teb Wrestling kev sib tw nyob New York City. Sam Rachmann nce cov kev sib tw nrog lub hom phiaj ntawm

Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 26, 1897, Martin "Farmer" Burns defended nws American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship tiv thaiv Scottish ntes wrestler Dan McLeod. Kub yus thiab McLeod tau ob tug saum peb los yog plaub catch-as-catch-can wrestlers nyob hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas thaum lub sij hawm. 1,200 Kiv cua kawm ntais ntawv nyob rau cov neeg pej xeem nrog Opera tsev nyob indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters feem ntau muab ib mat los yog hnyav

George Tragos gained fame as the trainer of Lou Thesz, the dominant National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion of the 1950s and early 1960s. Tragos, ib 1920 Olympian for his native Greece, possessed an impeccable resume in legitimate wrestling. Born March 14, 1901, in Messinia, Greece, Tragos won national wrestling titles before representing Greece at the 1920 Olympics at only

Qhov kawg ntawm 1932, 22-year-old Vila Milli sued her husband, professional wrestler Wladek Zbyszko, for divorce alleging physical cruelty and adultery. Milli charged the 41-year-old Zbyszko with physical cruelty for “hugging her too hard.” Justice Dunne of the Brooklyn Supreme Court heard the divorce case. He expressed doubt that Zbyszko abused his wife. Txawm li cas los, he did not dismiss the

Thaum researching keeb kwm ntawm cov American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1881 – 1922), Kuv sab Evan "Strangler" Lewis txiv thaum ntxov qhov yuam kev hauv Montana. Ua ntej yuav tshawb fawb lub npe no, Kuv xav lewis pib nws cov hauj lwm los winning ib 64-txiv neej wrestling kev sib tw nyob Montana thaum 1882. Txawm li cas los, Lewis yeej tsis yeej cov kev sib tw. Nyob hauv ntuj 1882, Lewis wrestled hauv ib Cornish wrestling kev sib tw

Frank Gotch dominated American wrestling from 1905 to his retirement in 1913. Gotch, the current American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, won the biggest match of his career on April 3, 1908. Gotch defeated current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Georg Hackenschmidt in Chicago, Illinois. Gotch proved as dominant a World Champion as he had been as the American Champion. Gotch agreed to