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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,
Eylül 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. Yıllardır, 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, Kaliforniya. 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 ve 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. Mayıs 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, kim
Uluslararası Güreş Turnuvası Mayıs tarihleri arasında iki aşamada oluştu 19, 1915 ve Aralık 31, 1915. Elli güreşçiler Dünya Greko-Romen Şampiyonu Aleksander dahil turnuvanın ilk aşamasında rekabet olur “Alex” Aberg. Ikinci taksit vardı 40 kadar dahil ve yıldız Ed'e gelen güreşçiler “Strangler” Demir kama, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
Mart'ta 22, 1881, Greko-Romen Güreş Şampiyonu Dünya William Muldoon New York Teras Garden'da Yaka-ve-Dirsek Dünya Şampiyonu John McMahon araya. Muldoon ve McMahon tanıştığı maç iyi iki-out-of-üç-düşer. İlk sonbahar Greko-Romen kurallarına göre yapılmıştır. İkinci sonbahar yaka-ve-dirsek kurallarını kullanarak itiraz olurdu. The last fall would be decided via what The New York
Paul Pons was a French Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion. He was good enough to give George Hackenschmidt a run for his money in several tournaments. Ancak, when he came to Chicago in 1900, he was “defeated” by a local wrestler. The circumstances of the loss leave a lot to be desired. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. Bir
William Muldoon, Dünya Greko-Romen Güreş Şampiyonu ve fiziksel kültür savunucusu, Salı günü Los Angeles'a geldi, Nisan 15, 1884 Yerel güreşçi Fred Bauer yüz. Maç Los Angeles'ta yerel Turnvereine Salonu'nda gerçekleşti. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he