Автор: Ken Zimmerman Jr.

През месец април 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “<Педя bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "1799" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = "” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” кибрит. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling

Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his

В началото 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns

До края на 1910-те, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, обикновено в резултат на двоен кръст, феновете ще видят действително състезание или “shoot” мач между борците. Един от тези мачове се случи в края 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, предимно бокс промоутър, and Jack