Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling History

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy interviewede St.. Louis wrestling promotor John Contos. Murphy foreslog overfor Contos, at den dominerende wrestlers æra som William Muldoon var forbi. Murphy talte om den nylige kamp mellem “Verdensmester” Hardneck Phillips og spilkonkurrencen Webster O’Malley. Phillips forsvarede med succes sit mesterskab ved at kaste O’Malley efter 1 hour, 50

Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”

På tirsdag, Marts 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 og 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, som var 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Desværre, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

Jeg har ofte fundet ud af, at den største udfordring ved at forske i tidlig professionel wrestling er at adskille fakta fra fiktion. Selv når bryderne konkurrerede i legitime kampe, de ofte oppustede resultater, opbygget apokryfisk folklore omkring deres sejre og opdigtede fantasifulde fortællinger for at bortforklare deres tab. Professionel brydning udsprang fra karnevalerne og beholdt denne kunsts salgsfremmende instinkter. St.

Den December 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch mistede en tre uge kamp med uræmisk forgiftning. Læger forsøgte at holde hans nyrer går gennem en operation i Chicago, men det gav kun midlertidig lindring. Gotch til formål at rejse til Hot Springs, Arkansas for at forsøge at genoprette sit helbred. Operationen sluttede dette håb. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” wrestling forfremmelse og slog Munn for