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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, at iba pa.
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. Pagkatapos
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,
Sa Septyembre 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. Para sa mga taon, 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
Noong Hunyo 4, 1883, ang Greco-Roman World matimbang Wrestling Champion William Muldoon nahaharap sanay French mambubuno Jules Rigal sa San Francisco, Kalipornya. Kapag ang wrestlers Nakuha sa kanilang mga putot para sa pagtutugma, ito ay kapangyarihan halata Muldoon ng nais patunayan ng isang mabigat na hamon sa Rigal. Muldoon nakatayo sa paligid 6 talampakan ang taas at weighed sa pagitan ng 193 at 210 pounds sa panahon ng kanyang karera.
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. Sa Mayo 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, sino
Ang International Wrestling Tournament naganap sa dalawang phase sa pagitan ng Mayo 19, 1915 at Disyembre 31, 1915. Limampung wrestlers gusto makipagkumpetensya sa unang yugto ng paligsahan kabilang ang World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Ang pangalawang grupo ng paninda ay nagkaroon 40 wrestlers kabilang ang up at darating na star Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Ang
Sa Marso 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. Ang huling pagkahulog ay nagpasya sa pamamagitan ng kung ano ang New York
Paul Pons ay isang Pranses Wrestling Greco-Roman Champion. Siya ay sapat na mahusay na magbigay sa George Hackenschmidt isang run para sa kanyang pera sa iba't ibang paligsahan. Gayunman, kapag siya ay dumating sa Chicago sa 1900, siya ay “bagsak” sa pamamagitan ng isang lokal na mambunuo. Ang kalagayan ng pagkawala iwan ng marami na ninanais. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. Isa
William Muldoon, Mundo Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion at pisikal na kultura tagasulong, dumating sa Los Angeles sa Martes, Abril 15, 1884 harapin ang lokal mambunuo Fred Bauer. Kinuha ang tugma lugar sa lokal Turnvereine Hall sa Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he