Author: Ken Zimmerman Jr.

Un dos contos lendarios sobre Joe Stecher refírese a un concurso lexítimo que mantivo cun de Martin “Agricultores” Loitadores de queimaduras, cando Stecher apenas remataba o instituto. Burns escoitou falar da crecente reputación de Stecher e decidiu probalo cun dos seus loitadores.. Durante anos, Pensei que Stecher derrotou a Yusif Mahmout pero en realidade loitou contra Yussif Hussane. O

Edwin Bibby e Duncan C. Ross estableceu o primeiro campionato de loita profesional recoñecido nos Estados Unidos en xaneiro 19, 1881. Os homes loitaron ao estilo catch-as-catch-can para o American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon foi o campión mundial de peso pesado baseado na súa derrota ante Thiebaud Bauer en 1880. Andre Christol levou o título mundial aos Estados Unidos no

In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests

Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought

En 1899, Martin “Agricultores” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in

William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with

En 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was