Txaus ntshai Turk phev heev tsws lwj hauv Roeber

Ernest Roeber yog ib qho accomplished Greco-Roman wrestler. William Muldoon, lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib ntawm 1880 mus 1889, xav Roeber yuav tsum ntawm nws li ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib. Txawm li cas los, lub ntiaj teb no npe tseem yuav kom yuav xamphaj txog George Hackenschmidt yeej ntau Greco-Roman Tournaments nyob teb chaws Europe thaum 1901.

Yusuf Ismail, qhov txaus ntshai Turk, Yog xav tau ib yam ntawm cov lusteb, vicious ntau wrestlers nyob hauv lub 1890s. Tom qab winning ntau tournaments nyob teb chaws Europe, Ismail mus rau lub tebchaws hauv 1898 mus stake nws ib daim ntawv thov rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.

Raws li Roeber txoj kev txawj ntse thiab lub koob npe nrov, Ismail tus neeg saib xyuas William Brady ruaj ib match ntawm cov Turk thiab Roeber. Ntais ntawv nws tus kheej proved tau tshuaj climatic.

Wrestling card muaj ob peb qhov yuam kev uas tsis yog lub caij tseem ceeb. Cov wrestler competed ntawm mats nyob rau ib qho kom nyob ntev. William Johnson, Dab-tshos Miskas thiab luj tshib Wrestling tau zus ib, muab rau Harry Reed nyob zoo ob-tawm-ntawm-3-kev ntog match.

Ntais ntawv tseem ntawd kub ntev kev li txog 6 feeb. Johnson yeej lawm lub caij nplooj zeeg thawj hauv ob feeb. Reed yeej lawm lub caij nplooj zeeg ob hauv ob feeb, 25 vib nas this. Johnson won the final fall and match at 2 feeb, 5 vib nas this.

Frank Idore of New York wrestled Leo Pardello of Chicago, Illinois. Pardello would gain a small bit of fame, when he pulled Frank Gotch’s hair years later. Gotch was enraged and injured Pardello’s leg with a toehold.

Hauv no match, Pardello won the first fall in 3 feeb, 45 vib nas this. Idore won the second fall in 5 feeb, 5 vib nas this. Pardello won the final fall and match in 4 feeb, 10 vib nas this. Barely 20 minutes had passed in the first two matches.

Yusuf Ismail ascended the platform first. The Terrible Turk was roundly booed by the crowd. Ernest Roeber entered next and was cheered robustly. The Terrible Turk stood 6’02” siab thiab weighed ib ncig 300 phaus. Ismail outweighed Roeber by at least 50 phaus.

Most of the publicity around the Turk was about how vicious and horrible he could be in the ring. In a match with Ibrahim Mahmut, the future Terrible Turk, Yusuf Ismail gouged his eyes, broke his ribs and choked him unconscious after being fouled.

Ismail would soon prove his reputation was deserved. As Roeber and Ismail circled each other, Roeber got near the edge of the mat, which was almost at the edge of the stage. The stage was 6 mus 8 feet above the floor.

The Terrible Turk suddenly ran at Roeber and knocked him off the mat and stage. Tsi, Roeber didn’t land on his head but his back and shoulders appeared to be injured. As several ringside officials attended to Roeber, Martin Julian jumped on the mat and declared the match for Roeber due to a foul. The referee agreed.

Ismail accepted the loss and the loser’s share of the purse but asked to wrestle a second fall with Roeber. The ringside doctor stated he would have to examine Roeber to determine if he could continue. After another preliminary match occurred in the intermission, the doctor said Roeber could not continue. Roeber was considered the winner by foul.

While Ismail lost this bout, his performance led to match with the most vicious American wrestler of the 19th Century, Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Which vicious wrestler would meet his match?

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Qhov chaw: Kansas City Journal, Lub peb hlis ntuj 27, 1898 ib tsab, p. 5

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