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Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi, Taue. The Four Pillars of Heaven

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Minoru Suzuki defeated Ken Shamrock by submission. (Pancrase 1/19/1994)

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Masakatsu Funaki defeated Tatsuo Nakano. (UWF 7/24/1989)

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Dory Funk Jr. vs. Harley Race in a Number One Contender match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship had no winner due to the 60 minute time limit expiring. (CWF 7/20/1974)

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Happy Second Coming Saturday!

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Lou Thesz retains the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Buddy Rogers in a Two Out of Three Falls match. (Chicago, Ill 6/21/1950)

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October 6, 1957 Rikidōzan battles Lou Thesz for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a sixty minute draw seen by 87% of the Japanese television audience.

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Atalanta #4 (Atalanta Outwrestles Peleus)

At the funeral games for King Pelius, Atalanta wrestles the Argonaut, Peleus, winning the match through strength and technique. Looking to Homer and the Iliad and the funeral games for Patroclus, we can get a overview of the ancient greek funeral games. The body of the fallen was placed upon a funeral pyre, offerings or sacrifices are made, and the pyre burnes. In the funeral games was an opportunity for Greek men to compete and show their Arete, or excellence, in a given skill. Events like; Chariot races, boxing, wrestling, running, sword fighting, shotputting, archery, and javelin throwing. The winners of the contests could hope to be awarded the glorious olive wreath crown; or other precious objects like tripods or horses. In fact these funerary competitive games are seen as the ancient roots of the Olympic games. Although it was Hercules who created the first Olympic games to honor his father, Zeus. Let’s take a look at Atalanta’s wrestling partner; Peleus, who plays an important role in Greek myth. As one of the heroes of the Argonautica, he later becomes a king of Phthia (in Thessaly) and is most famous for his marriage to the sea nymph Thetis. Zeus learned the prophecy that through his coupling with Thetis, her offspring would overthrow the Olympians, so he gave Thetis to a mortal; King Peleus. Chiron the centaur gave King Peleus the tip that he should ambush and hold tight to Thetis, as she transformed between forms. After succeeding to capture her, she agrees to marry, and the gods attend the wedding ceremony. This is the banquet where Eris, goddess of discord, sneaks in the golden apple inscribed with “for the farest,” setting off an argument between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. When Paris, prince of troy is Aphrodite promising Helen to Paris, setting off the Trojan war.

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Penny Banner works the arm of June Beyers...

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Wrestlers, from wall paintings, Beni-Hasan. The architecture of ancient Egypt. 1915.

Internet Archive

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A mural depicting ancient Egyptian grappling techniques, found in the tomb of Baquet III, an Egyptian high official who lived around 2000 BC and must have really liked wrastlin'

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Rhea Ripley + Pinning {2/?}

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🕯 Palaestra devotional moodboard 🕯