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After marrying his wife Gladys and beating Georg Hackenschmidt a second time, both in 1911, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch began to wrestle a more limited schedule. His wife Gladys was not a big fan of wrestling and wanted her new husband to spend more time at home in Humboldt, Iowa. In the world of wrestling at the time,
Clarence Whistler se je rodil v Indiani med 1856. Medtem ko stoji le 5’09” ali tako in tehtanje 165 funtov, Whistler je veljal za enega najmočnejših rokoborcev svojega obdobja. Whistler je bil edini rokoborec, ki je lahko povzročil težave Williamu Muldoonu med Muldoonovim 9-letnim nastopom kot svetovni prvak. Whistler je predvsem tekmoval v grško-rimskem rokoborbi, prevladujoči slog v
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
Maja 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
Vodi v njegov januar 24, 1921 dvoboj za naslov z nekdanjim svetovnim prvakom Earlom Caddockom, Svetovni prvak v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Ed “Strangler” Lewis naj bi poškodoval svoja prejšnja dva nasprotnika, Wladek Zbyszko in Joe Stecher, z glavo. Lewis bi uporabil udarec z glavo, da bi svojega nasprotnika vrgel na tla. Zbyszko je bil onemogel, ko je njegova glava udarila v
On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Kmet” Burns je spoznal majhnega, a močnega Freda Beella. Medtem ko sta oba rokoborca tehtala 165 funtov, “Kmet” Burns je stal 5'11” do Beellove 5’04”. 32-letni Beell je imel veliko starostno prednost pred 47-letnim Burnsom.. Burns je debitiral v 1879, ko je bil Beell star 3 leta. Moški so bili na sporedu za tekmo v Omahi, Nebraska, eno
Aprila 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross je srečal Sorakichija Matsudo, znan tudi kot Matsada, prvi japonski profesionalni rokoborec v ZDA. Matsuda se je priselil v Združene države, da bi uresničil svoje sanje, da bi postal profesionalni rokoborec, ker tega na Japonskem takrat ni bilo.. 28-marca se je v Turčiji škotskega rodu rodil letni Duncan Ross
On St. Patrick’s Day, Marec 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. Louisanov pred utopitvijo
In “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, torej je bil idealen svetovni prvak v moderni dobi vnaprej dogovorjenih tekem. Vendar, early in his career, Lewis
Konec decembra 1916, zgodil nenavaden dogodek. John F. Olin, lokalni rokoborec iz Massachusettsa, zmagal v dvoboju z aktualnim svetovnim prvakom Joejem Stecherjem. Sodnik je Olina razglasil za zmagovalca, potem ko je Stecher odšel z dvoboja. Pred National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) spremenila pravila v petdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja, prvenstva zamenjala lastnika z diskvalifikacijo oz