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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
In this post, which was previously a podcast, we will discuss the epic sixty-one round draw between James J. Corbett and Peter Jackson in 1891. This bout prepared Corbett for his successful challenge of John L. Sullivan in 1892. På marts 21, 1891, the most serious contender for the inactive John L. Sullivan’s world championship broke the color line to
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,
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For the October 5, 1861 edition of the Cincinnati Daily Press, editors pulled a story off the wire service from the Spirit of the Times. The wire story reported on a fight between former English prizefighting champion Tom Sayers and current English champion Jem Mace. Both Sayers and Mace were touring with English circuses, when they stopped in at a
Den maj 17, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko’s year-long tour of America continued as he met Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Buffalo, New York. Zbyszko, a Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion from Poland, wanted to generate interest in a potential match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. While Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American
Fører ind i hans januar 24, 1921 titelkamp med den tidligere verdensmester Earl Caddock, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis var ry for at have skadet sine tidligere to modstandere, Wladek Zbyszko og Joe Stecher, med sin hovedlås. Lewis ville bruge hovedlåsen til at hoftekaste sin modstander i gulvet. Zbyszko blev slået meningsløs, da hans hoved ramte