Last updated on 07/07/2022

04/01/1879
Stanislaus Zbyszko is born in Jodłowa, Poland.

04/29/1879 - New York, NY - Irving Hall
Collar & Elbow: Joseph Grady def Joseph Ryan

05/12/1879 - New York, NY - Gilmore's Garden (2,000)
Catch-as-catch-can (w/ jackets): John McMahon (2-1) William Miller
   1: McMahon (2:17)
   2: Miller (7:39)
   3: McMahon ("very short")

05/14/1879 - New York, NY - Gilmore's Garden (3,000)
William Muldoon (2-0 forfeit) Thiebaud Bauer

05/22/1879
An announcement is made on newspapers that Gimore's Garden has been renamed Madison Square Garden. (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Union-Argus, etc.)

08/06/1879 - New York, NY - St. James Opera House (450)
American Collar-and-Elbow Heavyweight Title*: John McMahon def James Owens

09/06/1879 - Brooklyn, NY - Olympic Theatre
John McMahon vs ???
James Owens vs ???

10/04/1879 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden [original; formerly Gilmore's Garden] (1,500)
John McMahon (2-2 curfew draw) William Miller

10/22/1879 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden [original]
Edwin Bibby (dec) Andre Cristol

12/04/1879 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden [original]
Edwin Bibby vs Andre Cristol

 

Researches by Hisaharu Tanabe, Jimmy Wheeler