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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, jne..
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. Jälkeen
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,
Syyskuun 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. Vuosia, 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
Kesäkuuta 4, 1883, kreikkalais-roomalaisen maailman Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon kohtasi taitava ranskalainen painija Jules Rigal San Franciscossa, Kalifornia. Kun painijat riisuttu runkoihinsa ottelua, oli selvää Muldoon valta voisi osoittautua valtava haaste Rigal. Muldoon seisoivat 6 senttiä pitkä ja painoi välillä 193 ja 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. Toukokuun 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, jotka
Kansainvälinen painiturnaus tapahtui kahdessa vaiheessa touko 19, 1915 ja joulukuussa 31, 1915. Viisikymmentä painijat kilpailisi ensimmäisen vaiheen turnauksen lukien Maailman kreikkalais-roomalaisen Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Toinen erä oli 40 painijat lukien ja tulevina tähti Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
Maaliskuun 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. The last fall would be decided via what The New York
Paul Pons oli ranskalainen kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin Champion. Hän oli tarpeeksi hyvä antaa George Hackenschmidt ajaa rahansa useissa turnauksissa. Kuitenkin, kun hän tuli Chicagoon 1900, hän oli “voitti” paikallinen painija. Olosuhteet menetys jättää paljon toivomisen varaa. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. One
William Muldoon, Maailman kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin mestari ja liikuntakulttuurin kannattaja, tuli Los Angeles tiistaina, Huhtikuu 15, 1884 kohtaamaan paikallisen painija Fred Bauer. Ottelu pelattiin paikallisessa Turnvereine Hall Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he