מחבר: קן צימרמן ג'וניור.

When Billy Sandow and Ed Lewis decided Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign had run out of promotional steam, they decided to “win” back the title in March 1922. <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis promoter John Contos was able to secure the big rematch, which would occur at the St. לואי קולוסיאום ביום חמישי, דצמבר 14, 1922. By this time, American professional wrestling outside of

ביום חמישי, נובמבר 22, 1923, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis promoter John Contos hosted a controversial card topped by a match between Joe Stecher and Dan Kolov, an up-and-coming Bulgarian wrestler. The card was covered by John E. Wray, the Sports Editor for the St. לואיס פוסט דיספץ'. The card was controversial because two of the biggest stars in wrestling were advertised but didn’t

Yusuf Ismail only wrestled in the United States for six months in the first half of 1898. In his first significant match, he was disqualified for a vicious foul. In his only other significant match, he gave Evan “<תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "976" = bbox_w "1948" = bbox_h "52" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the

ביום חמישי בלילה, נובמבר 25, 1909, אלוף העולם בהיאבקות פרנק Gotch פגש היאבקות פולנית אלוף סטניסלב Zbyszko להתאמה לנכים באפלו, ניו יורק. Gotch הסכים לוותר על התקף אם הוא לא יכול לזרוק Zbyszko פעמיים בשעה. הגודל של Zbyszko והכוח יצרו בעיות לGotch, ששקל 190 לירות לZbyszko של 260 קילו. אולם, Zbyszko

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they