Ιστορικός Μάχης και Πολεμικός Καλλιτέχνης
Posts about Greco-Roman wrestling matches and other wrestling styles such as collar-and-elbow wrestling, side hold wrestling, Cornish wrestling, etc.
Όταν ο 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. Μετά
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,
On September 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. Για χρόνια, 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, Καλιφόρνια. 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 και 210 pounds during his career.
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Τον Μάιο του 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, που
The International Wrestling Tournament occurred in two phases between May 19, 1915 and December 31, 1915. Fifty wrestlers would compete in the first phase of the tournament including World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. The second installment had 40 wrestlers including up and coming star Ed “Strangler” Λουδοβίκος, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Ο
Τον Μάρτιο του 22, 1881, Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon met Collar-and-Elbow World Champion John McMahon at the Terrace Garden in New York City. Muldoon and McMahon met in a best-two-out-of-three-falls match. The first fall was conducted by Greco-Roman rules. The second fall would be contested using collar-and-elbow rules. Το περασμένο φθινόπωρο θα αποφασιζόταν μέσω του The New York
Paul Pons ήταν ένας Γάλλος Ελληνορωμαϊκή Πάλη Πρωταθλητής. Ήταν αρκετά καλό για να δώσει Γιώργος Hackenschmidt ένα τρέξιμο για τα χρήματά του σε διάφορα τουρνουά. Ωστόσο, όταν ήρθε στο Σικάγο το 1900, ήταν “νίκησε” από έναν τοπικό παλαιστή. Οι περιστάσεις της απώλειας αφήνουν πολλά που πρέπει να γίνουν. Ο Paul Pons ταξίδεψε στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες σε 1900. Ένας
William Muldoon, η Παγκόσμια Ελληνορωμαϊκή Πάλη Πρωταθλητής και φυσική υπερασπιστής του πολιτισμού, ήρθε στο Λος Άντζελες την Τρίτη, Απρίλιος 15, 1884 για να αντιμετωπίσει την τοπική παλαιστής Fred Bauer. Ο αγώνας έγινε στο τοπικό Turnvereine Hall στο Λος Άντζελες. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he