作者: 小肯·齐默尔曼.

埃文 “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” 刘易斯, 也叫埃文·刘易斯 “在扼杀”, 是从一个专业摔跤手 1882 至 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” 或 “hang hold”, 现代 MMA 粉丝将其称为断头台扼流圈. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 男子锦标赛

马丁 “农民” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “农民” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 英镑. 在 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

一月 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, 一些美国摔跤手之前甚至声称自己是诺格特

In November 1923, 圣. 圣路易斯星报记者比利·墨菲采访了圣. 圣路易斯摔跤推广人约翰·康托斯. 墨菲向孔托斯提议，像威廉·马尔登这样的摔跤手占据主导地位的时代已经结束. 墨菲谈到了最近的比赛 “世界冠军” Hardneck Phillips 和比赛竞争者 Webster O’Malley. 菲利普斯在击倒奥马利后成功卫冕 1 hour, 50

<跨度bbox_x“925”bbox_y =“1780”bbox_w“16”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“ “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” 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”

周二, 三月 22, 1910, 博士. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 和 1920. 博士. 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. 博士.