Tom Cannon (wrestler)

{{Short description|British professional wrestler}}

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| name = Tom Cannon

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| caption = Tom Cannon 1885The Moth-Cannon Wrestling Match, The Saint Paul Globe,

5 December 1885, p4.

| birth_name = Tom Cannon

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| birth_place = Tyldesley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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Tom Cannon was the ring name for a British professional wrestler and World Heavyweight Champion who was active in the late 19th century and early portion of the 20th century, but whose actual name is lost to history.{{cite web|url=https://www.prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com/bio-0033.html|title=Biography: 0033 - Tom Cannon|website=#PWHS}}

He competed in Cornish,Sportsman (Melbourne, Vic. : 1882 - 1904), 1 September 1903 .Wrestling at Cardiff: Cannon vs. Pike, South Wales Daily News, 27 September 1895, p6. Cumberland,{{Cite news |date=Sep 19, 1895 |title=Local Sport |work=Western Mail |pages=7}} Greco-Roman,{{Cite news |date=Jan 26, 1891 |title=The Wrestling Championship Of The World |work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser |pages=3}}{{Cite news |date=Apr 10, 1893 |title=How M'Mahon Was Defeated |work=The Pittsburgh Press |pages=5}} Lancashire catch wrestling,{{Cite news |date=Nov 4, 1899 |title=The Cannon - Carkeek Wrestling Matches |work=Liverpool Daily Post |pages=7}} and mixed style matches{{Cite news |date=Jun 26, 1884 |title=Cannon and O'Hanlon Meet in a Private Wrestling Match |work=The San Francisco Examiner |pages=1}}Butte Daily Miner, 7 August 1885, p4.The Albury Banner, Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal, 18 February 1887, p23.South Wales Daily News, 23 September 1895. in the UK, the US and Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including winning a tournament, beating 22 other competitors.Local Sport, Western Mail, 19 September 1895, p7.

One of his recorded losses came in 1892 when he visited British India, where he was defeated by 21 year-old Indian pehlwani wrestler Kareem Buksh.{{Cite book |last=Nauright |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htTHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT192 |title=Routledge Handbook of Global Sport |last2=Zipp |first2=Sarah |date=2020-01-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-50047-6 |pages=192}}