General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Hidden Blaze]

So he’s the first ever world champion?

 

[Chris]

No the first that seems to be widely recognized was from a tournament in like 1880

 

[Chris]

Oh 1870 my bad

 

[Chris]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._McLaughlin this guy

 

[JakeYourBooty]

And people thought wrestling would die little do they know shits been around hundreds of years

 

[Chris]

He was billed as a colonel, no military records can be found

 

[JakeYourBooty]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._McLaughlin this guy

What a stud

 

[Chris]

And people thought wrestling would die little do they know shits been around hundreds of years

started up on Europe even earlier, it was immigrants that popularized it here really

 

[Chris]

What a stud

you know he made it bc he has a cigarette card

 

[JakeYourBooty]

started up on Europe even earlier, it was immigrants that popularized it here really

Well everyone here is an immigrant silly

 

[Chris]

Well everyone here is an immigrant silly

I mean fair but I meant 1800s immigrant dickhead

 

[JakeYourBooty]

I mean fair but I meant 1800s immigrant dickhead

I love you too

 

[Chris]

There's a myth from that 1870 tournament he recently was able to debunk after a lot of research about McLaughlin killing a guy in a match, just seems to be early forum folklore that was backed by a lot of facts of the tournament itself existing and spread as fact

 

[Chris]

But considering he found the newspapers that covered it at the time and they don't mention it, it's pretty clear

 

[Chris]

Lol the wiki actually has it