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Evan “Strangler” Lewis, imenovana tudi Evan Lewis “Strangler”, je poklicni rokoborec iz 1882 za 1899. Lewis je bil prvi ameriški Težji Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling prvak. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” ali “hang hold”, ki ga moderni oboževalci MMA poznajo kot giljotinsko dušilko. Lewis je svojo profesionalno debitiral z zmago 64 moški turnir
Martin “Kmet” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Kmet” Burns je bil velik borec v svoji desni. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 funtov. V 1891, Opekline so Iowa prvak v težki kategoriji je na JC. Comstock, Michigan prvak v težki kategoriji. J.C. Comstock was
Januarja 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, nekaj ameriških rokoborcev je pred tem celo trdilo, da so Nogert
In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times novinar Billy Murphy je intervjuval St. Louisov rokoborski promotor John Contos. Murphy je Contosu predlagal, da je obdobja dominantnih rokoborcev, kot je William Muldoon, konec. Murphy je spregovoril o nedavni tekmi med “Svetovni prvak” Hardneck Phillips in tekmec v igri Webster O'Malley. Phillips je uspešno ubranil svoje prvenstvo, tako da je za njim vrgel O'Malleyja 1 hour, 50
William Muldoon je bil aktualni svetovni prvak v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji in znan fizični kulturnik, ko je bil Muldoon zaročen z Johnom L. Sullivanovi podporniki, da spravijo svojega borca v formo. Sullivan je bil aktualni svetovni prvak v borbah z golimi členki v težki kategoriji. Podpisal je pogodbo za srečanje s svojim najtežjim tekmecem, Jake Kilrain, julija 1889. Sullivan je priznal, da je v slabem stanju,
Oktobra 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. One of the men
In “Strangler” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”
Nihče ni izkoristil obdobja No Decision v profesionalnem boksu kot Battling Levinsky. Levinsky je bil spreten obrambni boksar, ki je med svojimi borbami utrpel malo škode. Ko ga je revija Ring vprašala, zakaj je tako aktiven, včasih jemanje 3 bitke v enem dnevu okoli New Yorka, je rekel Levinski, “Rad imam denar in nikoli nisem prizadet.” Levinski je bil
Aprila 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt for the World Title at Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt was undefeated as a professional but had been World Champion for approximately 7 let. Gotch je bil leto starejši, a veljal za vzpona. Navijači in novinarji, ki pokrivajo šport, so menili, da je Gotch
V torek, Marec 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 in 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.