Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Despois de casar coa súa muller Gladys e vencer a Georg Hackenschmidt por segunda vez, ambos en 1911, O campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado Frank Gotch comezou a loitar cun calendario máis limitado. A súa muller Gladys non era unha gran fan da loita libre e quería que o seu novo marido pasase máis tempo na casa en Humboldt., Iowa. No mundo da loita libre da época,
Clarence Whistler naceu en Indiana durante 1856. Estando só 5’09” ou así e pesando 165 libras, Whistler foi considerado un dos loitadores máis poderosos da súa época. Whistler foi o único loitador capaz de darlle un mal momento a William Muldoon durante os 9 anos de carreira de Muldoon como campión do mundo.. Whistler competiu principalmente na loita grecorromana, o estilo dominante en
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
En maio 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
Leading into his January 24, 1921 title match with former world champion Earl Caddock, Campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis was reputed to have injured his previous two opponents, Wladek Zbyszko and Joe Stecher, with his headlock. Lewis would use the headlock to hip toss his opponent to the floor. Zbyszko was knocked senseless, when his head hit the
On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Agricultores” Burns coñeceu ao pequeno pero poderoso Fred Beell. Mentres os dous loitadores pesaban 165 libras, “Agricultores” Burns situouse en 5’11” ao 5 de Beell’04”. Beell, de 32 anos, tiña unha gran vantaxe de idade sobre Burns, de 47 anos.. Burns debutou en 1879, cando Beell tiña 3 anos. Os homes estaban programados para un partido en Omaha, Nebraska, un
En abril 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross met Sorakichi Matsuda, also known as Matsada, the first Japanese professional wrestler in the United States. Matsuda immigrated to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler because it didn’t really exist in Japan at the time. 28-year-old Duncan Ross was born in Turkey of Scottish descent on March
On St. Patrick’s Day, Marzo 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning
E “Estrangulador” Lewis enjoyed one of the most successful careers in professional wrestling. Although Lewis wrestled in mostly staged exhibitions, he possessed legitimate wrestling skills. Future protege Lou Thesz said many times Lewis could beat any wrestler at any time, polo que foi o campión do mundo ideal na era moderna dos partidos concertados. Porén, early in his career, Lewis
A finais de decembro 1916, ocorreu un suceso estraño. John F. Olín, un loitador local de Massachusetts, gañou un partido co actual campión do mundo Joe Stecher. O árbitro declarou a Olin vencedor despois de que Stecher se afastase do partido. Ante a National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) cambiou as normas na década de 1950, campionatos cambiaron de mans por descualificación ou