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1894 MIXED WRESTLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!

in Memories of the Old Days

Well here's a Real Rarity from the Days pre-HACKENSCHMIDT!......

ENGLAND vs. CANADA in MANCHESTER at ST.JAMES'S HALL-OXFORD STREET!

TOM CONNOR against JEM DUANE-and the Poster for this Event-126 Years ago!!

£50 at Stake!-A veritable Mega-Fortune in those Days!...

+ An Image of the Man himself!! Check out the Write-Ups under Both Men's Names!

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15 comments

15 Comments

Hack

Apr 04, 2020

Good grief Ruslan the questions you ask.

Well, I came across this Los Angeles paper of three years earlier, 1891, that says he weighed 150 pounds - 10 stones 10 pounds

Los Angeles Herald 18/01/1891

ruslan-pashayev

Nov 21, 2020

Replying to

Hack, those were tiny men, and I mean it. That is why someone like Joe Acton of Wigan or Connor of Wigan, or Bibby of Ashton under Lyne, or Carroll of Hindley or another under 11st rassler claimed the world championship - WILLIAM SNAPE OF HORWICH, LOSTOCK, OR BOLTON LAUGHED AT THEM!!! He was the one and ONLY heavyweight champ Lancs catch wrestler of that generation (Bibby-Acton), remained undefeated, his weight was 20st, in compare to him all those men were - school boys.