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Broadcast companies were looking for content during the early days of television. Besides older movies and some broadcast company productions, sports were a source of programming for many television stations. The Dumont Television Network was one of the powerhouse networks in the beginning of the Golden Age of Television. One of their most popular programs was wrestling and the star
Yusuf Ismail only wrestled in the United States for six months in the first half of 1898. In his first significant match, he was disqualified for a vicious foul. In his only other significant match, he gave Evan “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the
On a Thursday night, ನವೆಂಬರ್ 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, ನ್ಯೂಯಾರ್ಕ್. Gotch agreed to forfeit the bout if he could not throw Zbyszko twice in an hour. Zbyszko’s size and strength created problems for Gotch, who weighed 190 pounds to Zbyszko’s 260 ಪೌಂಡ್. ಹೇಗಾದರೂ, Zbyszko
Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “ಅಲೆಕ್ಸ್” Aberg. Aberg was the Russian Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion. Rachman believed Aberg could beat any wrestler. Rachman also wanted to lure Frank Gotch, the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, out of retirement to wrestle with Aberg. Gotch wrestled George Lurich in
In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they
An ad was printed in the January 16, 1921 ಸೇಂಟ್ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising a mail order course on Jujitsu from Capt. Allan Smith. Capt. Smith was originally born in Scotland but was fascinated with demonstrations of Japanese Jujitsu (actually Judo) he saw in England. Smith traveled to Japan with a company and learned Judo reaching 1st degree
ಫ್ರ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಗೋಚ್, the farm boy from Humboldt, ಅಯೋವಾ, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hack” in the 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch
ಜಾನ್ L ಹೋರಾಟ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ.ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ. ಸುಲೀವಾನ್ ಕಳೆದ ವಿಶ್ವದ ಚಾಂಪಿಯನ್ಷಿಪ್ prizefight ಬೆರಳಿನ ಗೆಣ್ಣು ನಿಯಮಗಳಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಿಸಿ, ಜೇಕ್ ಕಿಲ್ರೇನ್ ಅನೇಕ ಕವಚ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿದರು. ಬಹುಮಾನದ-ಕಾಳಗವು ಕ್ವೀನ್ಸ್ಬೆರಿ ನಿಯಮಗಳು ಮಾರ್ಕ್ವೆಸ್ ಅಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕವಚ ಗೆ ಬೆರಳಿನ ಗೆಣ್ಣು ನಿಯಮಗಳು ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆಯೆಂದು ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು (early amateur and professional boxing) in the late 19th Century. Like Sullivan, Kilrain would fight in major
ಜನವರಿ 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko was a skilled
Omaha Chief of Police H.W. Dunn created headlines on March 28, 1915, when he issued an order banning the advertised professional wrestling match between Joe Stecher and Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 match was scheduled for the Omaha Auditorium. The chief actually issued the order at the behest of Superintendent of Police A.C. Kugel. Kugel issued a statement to