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Pada tanggal 13, 1920, Dan “Pencekik” Lewis mengalahkan Joe Stecher untuk Kejuaraan Gulat Kelas Berat Dunia. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. However, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud
Evan “Pencekik” Lewis, also called Evan Lewis “the Strangler”, was a professional wrestler from 1882 untuk 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” atau “hang hold”, yang dikenal oleh penggemar MMA modern sebagai guillotine choke. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 turnamen pria
Martin “Petani” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Petani” 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 pon. Di 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was
Pada Januari 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, beberapa pegulat Amerika bahkan pernah mengaku sebagai Nogert sebelumnya
In November 1923, St. Reporter Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy mewawancarai St. Promotor gulat Louis John Contos. Murphy mengusulkan kepada Contos bahwa era pegulat dominan seperti William Muldoon telah berakhir. Murphy berbicara tentang pertandingan terakhir antara “Juara Dunia” Hardneck Phillips dan pesaing permainan Webster O'Malley. Phillips berhasil mempertahankan gelar juaranya dengan melemparkan O'Malley setelahnya 1 hour, 50
William Muldoon adalah memerintah Dunia Heavyweight Champion Wrestling dan culturist fisik mencatat, ketika Muldoon bertunangan dengan John L. pendukung Sullivan untuk mendapatkan tempur mereka dalam bentuk. Sullivan adalah memerintah Dunia Heavyweight Bare Knuckle prizefighting Champion. Dia menandatangani kesepakatan untuk memenuhi penantang terberat, Jake Kilrain, di Juli 1889. Sullivan mengakui ia berada dalam kondisi buruk,
Pada hari Selasa, Februari 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast menantang Juara Tinju Ringan Dunia Melawan Nelson untuk gelar Nelson di Richmond Arena di Point Richmond, California. Nelson yang berusia 28 tahun memenangkan gelar dengan mengalahkan Joe Gans yang hebat 1908. Pakar tinju tidak menyangka Wolgast akan mengalahkan Nelson meskipun Wolgast mengeluarkan keputusan di surat kabar atas Nelson 1909. Pakar
Pada Oktober 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
Dan “Pencekik” 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”
Stanislaus Zbyszko melakukan tur ke Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1910 dalam persiapan untuk pertandingan perebutan gelar dengan Juara Gulat Kelas Berat Dunia Frank Gotch di akhir tahun. Turnya membawanya ke St. Louis pada bulan Mei 29, 1910. Zbyszko dijadwalkan bertemu dengan grappler kelas berat ringan yang sangat dihormati, Charley Olson. Olson adalah pegulat yang terampil, yang berlatih bersama St. Pegulat Louis, George