Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportskunstner
From late 1921 til 1923, John Contos promoted professional wrestling in St. Louis, Missouri. Men, Contos decided to leave promotion to focus on managing the career of budding star Dan Kolov. Prior to leaving St. Louis, Contos sold the promotion to Tom Packs, his nephew and assistant in the promotion. Packs’ first card was scheduled for Friday, Januar 4, 1924.
When discussing Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign from 1921 til 1922, the main reason given for taking the title from him was that his title reign was a box office failure. Do the numbers validate this belief? Prior to wining the championship, Zbyszko wrestled former champion Joe Stecher at the 71st Regiment Armory in front of 7,000 fans. I 1915, den
Da William Muldoon trak sig tilbage som verdens tungvægts græsk-romersk brydemester i 1889, der var ingen klar efterfølger til mesterskabet. Evan “Strangler” Lewis var den bedste bryder i USA, der ikke hed William Muldoon, men hans specialitet var fangst-som-fangst-kan brydning. Den bedste amerikanske græsk-romerske bryder, Clarence Whistler, had died in Australia during 1885. Muldoon’s handpicked successor was German-born
Joe Stecher started out 1915, a fateful year for his career, with a victory over Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled under the name Otto Carpenter for this match but was known to professional wrestling fans as Ad Santel. Santel had a deserved reputation for being a vicious “luder”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made
World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled hundreds of legitimate wrestling matches with Joseph “Toots” Mondt over the years. During conversations with his young protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis said he only had to worry about losing to two wrestlers in his long career. Only Mondt and Stanislaus Zbyszko had a chance of defeating him in a legitimate contest. Én
On Sunday, December 14, 1924, “Big” Wayne Munn kæmpede med Joseph “Toots” Mondt i hovedbegivenheden på wrestling-kortet i Kansas City, Missouri, Kongressalen. 10,000 fans mødte op for at heppe på Munn, en tidligere college fodboldspiller for University of Nebraska. Munn blev faktureret kl. 6’06”, hvilket kan have været en overdrivelse, men han var betydeligt
rejste til USA i slutningen af 1880'erne for at bryde de bedste amerikanske wrestlere 21, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. Evan “Strangler” Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin “Farmer” Burns. Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin “Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin” Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin. Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin 1893
On April 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fans betragtede Mahmout som en hård udfordrer, primært fordi de ikke havde set ham kæmpe. Emil Klank, Gotchs manager, overbeviste udenlandske wrestlere med godt ry som Mahmout og Stanislaus Zbyszko til at rejse til Amerika for at udfordre Gotch. Fans
Aleksander “Alex” Aberg trak overskrifter ind 1917 under en retssag over hans afvisning af at opfylde en wrestling-forpligtelse i Boston i marts 1917. Aberg gik med til at kæmpe Wladek Zbyszko, hans hovedmodstander under 1915 New Yorks internationale brydningsturneringer, for Boston-promotoren George Touhey. Men, Aberg trak sig ud af kampen kort efter at have underskrevet en aftale om at bryde hans
After marrying his wife Gladys and beating Georg Hackenschmidt a second time, both in 1911, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch began to wrestle a more limited schedule. His wife Gladys was not a big fan of wrestling and wanted her new husband to spend more time at home in Humboldt, Iowa. In the world of wrestling at the time,