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starting in the late 1950s, it was the last nail in the coffin of professional wrestling as a legitimately competitive sport.2 ?( Q8 {. b( Y5 ?$ Q; ]
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# }3 _ ~/ i; uBy defeating Thiebaud Bauer of Germany, William Muldoon becomes the United States’ first famous wrestling champion. An avid physical culturalist, Muldoon also had done some prize fighting. He preferred wrestling, though, as the purses were larger: seven dollars to the winner and three to the loser, instead of three dollars to the winner and two to the loser." [/ ^# Q! p4 Y% F1 @# x
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The New Orleans Picayune describes professional wrestling as "the most commendable of athletic exhibitions as there is but little brutality connected with it, and agility, coolness, strength and science are the winning points." This was in contrast to boxing, where in 1892 a writer for the New Orleans Weekly Times-Democrat saw a boxer’s nose, mouth, and eye "disfigured past recognition and hear the ugly half-splashing sound as [the other boxer’s] blood-soaked gloves again and again visited the bleeding wounds that had drenched them." The reason for the detailed description was that the loser was a white man and the winner black, and the writer did not think that such spectacles provided good entertainment.) Q! ? d& h6 k% j. B5 a# o
8 m1 `' ?9 {- jAccording to Ring historian Nat Fleischer, wrestler William Muldoon body-slams boxer John L. Sullivan, thus settling the old argument about who would win a fight between a boxer and a wrestler. Although there is scholarly debate about whether this match ever occurred outside Fleischer’s imagination, the outcome is plausible. For instance, Martin "Farmer" Burns pinned Billy Papke in 1910. Ray Steele pinned Kingfish Levinsky (real name: Hershel Krakow) in 1935. And Nature Boy Buddy Rogers pinned Jersey Joe Walcott in 1956. "Which proves," said Charles B. Roth in a related article in the June 1949 Esquire, "if it proves anything -- that boxing, far from being the best system of self-defense, is actually the worst."# H" e2 I: \, I' B9 F* Y- c: u
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In Paris, Paul Pons wins the French national wrestling championships; second place went to Ladislaus Pytlasinsky, a Pole from Helsinki. Meanwhile, in Vienna, George Hackenschmidt wins a tournament advertised as the first World’s Championship. This was typical professional wrestling hype, as the participants were mostly German or Austro-Hungarian. (Second went to G. Burghardt of Austria while third went to M. Hitzler of Bavaria.) Venues for such matches included the Folies-Bergère in Paris and the Oxford Theatre in London.
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. k, \2 L+ Y1 l! ]你找到点真实信息来证明职业摔角从开始就是假的OK?哪怕你把这些翻译翻译.你总不能说这些人是假的这些事是假的,这些字句是假的吧.
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