Stecher and Zbyszko Complete Deal

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Decembrī 13, 1920, Un “Strangler” Lewis defeated Joe Stecher for his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Tomēr, 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

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis Shows Mean Streak

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Evan “Strangler” Vilka ķetna, also called Evan Lewis “the Strangler”, was a professional wrestler from 1882 līdz 1899. Lewis bija pirmais amerikāņu Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Cīkstēšanās Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” vai “hang hold”, which modern MMA fans know as a guillotine choke. Lewis veicis profesionālo debija, uzvarot 64 man tournament

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Lauksaimnieks Burns Beats Michigan čempions

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Čurkste “Lauksaimnieks” Burns ir slavena šodien, kad treneris leģendārais cīkstonis Frank Gotch. “Lauksaimnieks” Burns bija liels cīkstonis savā labā. Burns uzvarēja amerikāņu smagsvara cīkstoņiem čempionu leģitīmo pro cīkstēšanās ēras neskatoties uz to tikai 165 mārciņas. Uz 1891, Burns kā Aiovas smagsvara čempions ieguva JC. Comstock, Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

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Zbyszko Bests Giant Nogert

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Janvārī 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, daži amerikāņu cīkstoņi iepriekš pat bija apgalvojuši, ka ir Nogerts

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Changing Tastes

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In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy interviewed St. Louis wrestling promoter John Contos. Murphy proposed to Contos that the era of dominant wrestlers like William Muldoon was over. Murphy spoke about the recent match betweenWorld ChampionHardneck Phillips and the game contender Webster O’Malley. Phillips successfully defended his championship by throwing O’Malley after 1 hour, 50

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Muldoon Spars ar Salivanu

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Viljams Muldūns bija pašreizējais pasaules čempions smagajā cīņā un ievērojams fiziskais kultūrists, kad Muldūnu saderināja Džons L. Salivana atbalstītāji, lai iegūtu savu cīnītāju formā. Salivans bija pašreizējais pasaules čempions cīņas cīņā ar kailām rokām smagajā svarā. Viņš parakstīja vienošanos, lai tiktos ar savu grūtāko sāncensi, Džeiks Kilreins, jūlijā 1889. Salivans atzina, ka ir sliktā formā,

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Ad Wolgast Wins Lightweight Title

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Otrdien, Februāris 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast challenged World Lightweight Boxing Champion Battling Nelson for Nelson’s title at Richmond Arena in Point Richmond, Kalifornija. The 28-year-old Nelson won the title by knocking out the great Joe Gans in 1908. Boxing experts did not expect Wolgast to defeat Nelson even though Wolgast held a newspaper decision over Nelson in 1909. Pundits

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Lewis Frustrates Stecher and Mayor

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Un “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”

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Staņislavs Zbiško tiekas ar Čārliju Olsonu

Stanislaus-Zbyszko

Stanislaus Zbyszko toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis on May 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George

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