Gotch vs. Forfatter og kampkunstner

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Frank Gotch dominerte amerikansk bryting fra 1905 til hans pensjonisttilværelse i 1913. Gotch, den nåværende amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, vant den største kampen i karrieren i april 3, 1908. Gotch beseiret nåværende verdensmester i tungvektbryting Georg Hackenschmidt i Chicago, Illinois. Gotch viste seg å være en like dominerende verdensmester som han hadde vært som den amerikanske mesteren. Gotch gikk med på det

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Forfatter og kampkunstner

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On Thursday, April 29, 1909, Frank Gotch reiste til Memphis, Tennessee skal bryte den anerkjente lett tungvektsbryteren Charles Hackenschmidt. Hackenschmidt vant World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship under hans virkelige navn, John Berg. Selv om fansen tenkte godt om Berg, de så ikke på ham som en trussel om å beseire Frank Gotch i en rett kamp. For å øke faninteressen

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Forfatter og kampkunstner

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Joe Stecher wrestled during a transitional time in American professional wrestling. Prior to 1900, wrestlers engaged primarily in legitimate contests although wrestlers did work matches occasionally. Etter 1915, all wrestlers worked their matches. Wrestlers wrestled legitimate contests only to settle promotional dispute or to pull off a double-cross. Fra 1900 til 1915, wrestlers engaged in a mixture of worked matches

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Englishmen Wrestle for American Title

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August 7, 1882, American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Edwin Bibby defended his title against English Champion Joe Acton at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The men wrestled a “catch-as-catch-can” match for the world championship. However, the public did not recognize the winner of the bout as the world champion. The public recognized the winner as the American Heavyweight

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John Lemm Gets a Second Chance

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Januar 2, 1911, Swiss wrestler John Lemm found himself the laughingstock of professional wrestling fans and reporters. The incident occurred when Lemm wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko in Buffalo, New York. Fans considered Zbyszko the top contender for Frank Gotch’s world title. Zbyszko was a world class wrestler although more skilled in Greco-Roman wrestling than catch wrestling. Lemm was a skilled

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The Original Trust Buster

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During the early 1920s, Tex Rickard declared war on his former boxing promotional partner, Jack Curley. Curley promoted professional wrestling in New York City. He also organized promoters in large cities such as Boston and St. Louis into a wrestling trust. The trust controlled the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. The trust froze out any wrestler, who refused to go along

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