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Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Fodd bynnag,, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford yn cael ei ystyried yn un o'r mwyaf i bunt diffoddwyr punt o bob amser. Ganwyd ar Mawrth 4, 1883 mewn Falls Weymouth, Nova Scotia, mae'n cael ei ystyried yn y paffiwr Canada gorau erioed. ymestyn ei yrfa ymladd oddi 1900 i 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Roedd
Y Gorilla (1939) yn gomedi-ddirgelwch “B” ffilm serennu y Brodyr Ritz, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi a Lionell Atwill. Cafodd y ffilm ei gynhyrchu gan yr Ugeinfed Ganrif Fox cyn iddynt roi'r gorau i wneud “B” films, the first film on a double bill. Y Brodyr Ritz oedd yn weithredol rhwng 1925 a'r 1960au, when Al Ritz the oldest brother passed away. The brothers made
Ar Hydref 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Pencampwriaeth ond arhosodd allan o'r chwyddwydr tan
Ar Dachwedd 7, 1908, Cyfarfu Charles Olson “Americus” Gus Schonlein ar gyfer Pencampwriaeth y Byd Reslo Light Pwysau Trwm. Profodd y gêm i fod mor gyffrous fel arsyllwyr amau y byddai'n ond mae'n dod i ben yn dadlau. Safai Olson yn 6’01” ond pwyso dim ond 170 bunnoedd. Ganwyd Max Flaskamp yn Krefeld, Gogledd Rhine-Westphalia yn 1879, cymerodd yr enw Charles neu Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 bunnoedd. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Fodd bynnag,, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, a deithiodd i America i gymryd Frank Gotch ar ôl iddo orchfygu
Ar Nos Nadolig 1911, Cyfarfu Stanislaus Zbyszko Giovanni Raicievich mewn pwl reslo pwysau trwm hir-ddisgwyliedig. Zbyszko, a oedd yn ymgyrchu am rematch gyda Pwysau Trwm y Byd Reslo Pencampwr Frank Gotch, cytunwyd i daflu Raicevich 3 gwaith yn 90 munud neu yn cael ei ddatgan y collwr. Wrth i'r dynion fynd i mewn i'r Madison Square Garden enwog yn Ninas Efrog Newydd, Zbyszko oedd yn amlwg y
Ar Fai 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Roedd hawliadau i'r bencampwriaeth yn wallgof iawn ar y pryd. Roedd triciau thuggery a budr yn aml yn cuddio pwy oedd Pencampwr America mewn gwirionedd. Jem Mace, a gafodd ei ystyried yn Bencampwr y Byd ddwywaith tra'n ymladd yn Lloegr, wedi ei arwyddo i gyfarfod Tom
Ed “Strangler” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, which Lewis started using as promoters and wrestlers transitioned professional wrestling to a prearranged or “worked” exhibition. Lewis originally used the front face lock or guillotine choke. Lewis’ namesake Evan “Strangler” Lewis made the front face lock or
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Sicrhaodd o'r diwedd