Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Etter å ha giftet seg med sin kone Gladys og slått Georg Hackenschmidt en gang til, begge i 1911, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch begynte å bryte en mer begrenset tidsplan. Hans kone Gladys var ikke en stor fan av bryting og ønsket at hennes nye ektemann skulle tilbringe mer tid hjemme i Humboldt, Iowa. I brytingens verden på den tiden,
Clarence Whistler ble født i Indiana under 1856. Mens du bare står 5’09” eller så og veiing 165 pounds, Whistler ble ansett som en av de mektigste bryterne i sin tid. Whistler var den eneste bryteren som kunne gi William Muldoon en hard tid under Muldoons 9-årige løp som verdensmester. Whistler konkurrerte først og fremst i gresk-romersk bryting, den dominerende stilen i
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, da de stoppet inn kl
Mai 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, Verdensmester i tungvektbryting Ed “Strangler” 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 “Farmer” Burns møtte den lille, men mektige Fred Beell. Mens begge bryterne veide 165 pounds, “Farmer” Burns sto 5'11” til Beells 5’04”. Den 32 år gamle Beell hadde imidlertid en stor aldersfordel over den 47 år gamle Burns. Burns debuterte inn 1879, da Beell var 3 år gammel. Mennene skulle ha en kamp i Omaha, Nebraska, en
April 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, March 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
Og “Strangler” 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, så han var den ideelle verdensmesteren i den moderne tid med forhåndsarrangerte kamper. However, early in his career, Lewis
I slutten av desember 1916, en merkelig hendelse skjedde. John F. Olin, en lokal Massachusetts-bryter, vant en kamp med den nåværende verdensmesteren Joe Stecher. Dommeren erklærte Olin som vinner etter at Stecher stakk av fra kampen. Før National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) gjorde endringer i reglene på 1950-tallet, mesterskap skiftet hender gjennom diskvalifikasjon eller