الكاتب: كين زيمرمان جونيور.

Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. استخدم

In late 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko traveled to the United States to challenge World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Prior to meeting Gotch, Zbyszko toured the United States and battled many local wrestlers throughout the early part of 1910. Zbyszko would travel 37,000 miles. Early in his tour, Zbyszko met Frank Gotch in a handicap match. Zbyszko defeated Gotch, الذي كان

يوم الخميس, يناير 27, 1904, دافع توم جينكينز عن بطولة المصارعة الأمريكية ضد مصارع صاعد من ولاية أيوا. After the first fall, أدرك المشجعون أنها كانت أصعب مباراة لفرانك ألفين جوتش, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. لقد هزم جينكينز جوتش