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Sebuah iklan dicetak pada bulan Januari 16, 1921 edisi St. Louis Post-Dispatch mengiklankan kursus pemesanan lewat pos tentang Jujitsu dari Capt. Alan Smith. Capt. Smith awalnya lahir di Skotlandia tetapi terpesona dengan demonstrasi Jujitsu Jepang (sebenarnya Judo) dia melihat di Inggris. Smith melakukan perjalanan ke Jepang bersama sebuah perusahaan dan belajar Judo mencapai tingkat 1
Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Terjangan” in the 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch
Sementara terkenal untuk memerangi John L. Sullivan di kejuaraan dunia terakhir prizefight diperebutkan di bawah aturan buku jari telanjang, Jake Kilrain juga mengambil bagian dalam banyak serangan bersarung. Prizefighting itu transisi dari aturan buku jari telanjang untuk serangan bersarung bawah Marquess of Queensberry Aturan (amatir awal dan tinju profesional) di Abad 19-an. seperti Sullivan, Kilrain akan bertarung di utama
Pada Januari 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko adalah seorang yang terampil
Kepala Polisi Omaha H.W. Dunn menjadi berita utama pada bulan Maret 28, 1915, ketika dia mengeluarkan perintah yang melarang pertandingan gulat profesional yang diiklankan antara Joe Stecher dan Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 pertandingan dijadwalkan di Auditorium Omaha. Perintah tersebut sebenarnya dikeluarkan Kapolri atas perintah Inspektur Polisi A.C. Kugel. Kugel mengeluarkan pernyataan kepada
Pada tanggal 13, 1920, Dan “Pencekik” Lewis mengalahkan Joe Stecher untuk Kejuaraan Gulat Kelas Berat Dunia. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. However, 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
Evan “Pencekik” Lewis, also called Evan Lewis “the Strangler”, was a professional wrestler from 1882 untuk 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” atau “hang hold”, yang dikenal oleh penggemar MMA modern sebagai guillotine choke. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 turnamen pria
Martin “Petani” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Petani” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 pon. Di 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was
Pada Januari 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, beberapa pegulat Amerika bahkan pernah mengaku sebagai Nogert sebelumnya
In November 1923, St. Reporter Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy mewawancarai St. Promotor gulat Louis John Contos. Murphy mengusulkan kepada Contos bahwa era pegulat dominan seperti William Muldoon telah berakhir. Murphy berbicara tentang pertandingan terakhir antara “Juara Dunia” Hardneck Phillips dan pesaing permainan Webster O'Malley. Phillips berhasil mempertahankan gelar juaranya dengan melemparkan O'Malley setelahnya 1 hour, 50