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Posts about Greco-Roman wrestling matches and other wrestling styles such as collar-and-elbow wrestling, side hold wrestling, Cornish wrestling, vv.
Alex Aberg đã đánh bại nhiều đối thủ đáng chú ý trong năm vĩ đại nhất trong sự nghiệp đô vật chuyên nghiệp của mình. Trong 1915, Aberg thi đấu ở cả hai phiên bản Mùa xuân và Mùa thu của Giải đấu vật quốc tế New York. Thi đấu độc quyền theo phong cách đấu vật Hy Lạp-La Mã ưa thích của mình, Aberg đánh bại Tiến sĩ. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko và Ed “Strangler” Lewis cùng với một số đô vật hành trình.
Vào thứ Sáu, Có thể 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Cổng phía Tây”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 phút. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Tháng Mười Một 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
Paul Pons là Wrestling vô địch Hy Lạp-La Mã của Pháp trong những năm 1890. Ông đã giành một giải đấu ở Folies-Bergeres trước khi chiến thắng một giải đấu tại Nga trong 1898. These victories allowed him to claim the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship. Pons có mức vốn trên tai tiếng này bằng cách mở một phòng tập thể dục để đào tạo đô vật và những người đàn ông mạnh mẽ. Pons’ victory was particularly remarkable because of
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. After
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,
Ngày 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Trong nhiều năm qua, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into
On June 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, California. When the wrestlers stripped to their trunks for the match, it was obvious Muldoon’s power would prove a formidable challenge to Rigal. Muldoon stood around 6 feet tall and weighed between 193 và 210 pounds during his career.
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Vì người hâm mộ chỉ coi Clarence Whistler đủ kỹ năng để thực sự đe dọa triều đại của anh ấy, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Ngày 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, ai