Author: Ken Zimmerman JR.

Evan “Strangler” Lewis, tinatawag din Evan Lewis “ang Strangler”, ay isang propesyonal mambubuno mula sa 1882 upang 1899. Lewis ay ang unang Amerikanong matimbang Makibalita-bilang-catch Maaari pakikipagbuno Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” o “hang hold”, na kilala ng modernong mga tagahanga ng MMA bilang guillotine choke. Lewis ginawa kanyang propesyonal pasinaya sa pamamagitan ng nanalong isang 64 tournament ng tao

Martin “Magsasaka” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Magsasaka” Burns ay isang mahusay na mambunuo sa kanyang sariling karapatan. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 pounds. Sa 1891, Burns bilang ang Iowa matimbang Champion Kinunan sa JC. Comstock, ang Michigan matimbang Champion. J.C. Comstock was

Sa Enero 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, ilang American wrestlers pa nga ang nagsabing sila si Nogert noon

In November 1923, St. Ang reporter ng Louis Star-Times na si Billy Murphy ay nakapanayam ng St. Louis wrestling promoter na si John Contos. Iminungkahi ni Murphy kay Contos na tapos na ang panahon ng mga nangingibabaw na wrestler tulad ni William Muldoon. Nagsalita si Murphy tungkol sa kamakailang laban sa pagitan “World Champion” Hardneck Phillips at ang game contender na si Webster O'Malley. Matagumpay na naipagtanggol ni Phillips ang kanyang kampeonato sa pamamagitan ng paghagis kay O'Malley pagkatapos 1 hour, 50

At “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”

Sa Martes, Marso 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 at 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.