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  2. History of professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    A tradition of combining wrestling and showmanship may originate in the early 1800s in Western Europe, Britain, and Ireland, when showmen presented wrestlers under names such as ""Herculean" Flower" [5] and "Edward, the steel eater", "Gustave d'Avignon, the bone wrecker", or "Bonnet, the ox of the low Alps" and would wrestle one another and challenge members of the public to attempt to knock ...

  3. History of wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Gotch, regarded as "peerless" at his peak, was the first to actually claim the world's undisputed heavyweight championship by beating all contenders in North America and Europe. He became the world's champion by beating European wrestling champion Georg Hackenschmidt, both in 1908 and 1911, seen by modern wrestling historians as two of the most ...

  4. Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules - Wikipedia

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    In London, the new rules led to the ban on professional wrestling being lifted however a by-law authorised by the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police kept female wrestling banned within the Greater London area until 1987. [5] Over the course of the 1990s, matches without rounds became increasingly prevalent.

  5. Historical European martial arts - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the course of the 18th century, the French school became the western European standard to the extent that Angelo, an Italian-born master teaching in England, published his L'École des Armes in French in 1763. It was extremely successful and became a standard fencing manual over the following 50 years, throughout the Napoleonic period.

  6. Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The history of professional wrestling in the United Kingdom spans over one hundred years. After a brief spell of popularity for Greco Roman professional wrestling during the Edwardian era, the first catch-as-catch-can based scene began in the 1930s, [1] when it was popularised under the concept of "All-in Wrestling", which emphasised an "anything goes" style and presentation.

  7. Professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling has become especially prominent in North America, Japan and Europe (especially the United Kingdom). [113] In Brazil , there was a very popular wrestling television program that aired from the 1960s to the early 1980s called Telecatch .

  8. How did wrestling become so entrenched in the culture of Iowa? ... the string of teams Gable coached at Iowa from 1978-86 still holds the longest streak of team titles in NCAA wrestling history ...

  9. History of martial arts - Wikipedia

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    Also during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, catch wrestling contests became immensely popular in Europe. In the early 1900s [ 35 ] Edith Garrud became the first British female teacher of jiu-jitsu , [ 36 ] and one of the first female martial arts instructors in the Western world.