Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling History

In November 1923, St. Novinar Louis Star-Timesa Billy Murphy intervjuirao je St. Louis hrvački promotor John Contos. Murphy je rekao Contosu da je era dominantnih hrvača poput Williama Muldoona završila. Murphy je govorio o nedavnoj utakmici između “Svjetski prvak” Hardneck Phillips i konkurent Webster O’Malley. Phillips je uspješno obranio svoje prvenstvo bacivši O'Malleyja nakon 1 hour, 50

I “Davitelj” 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”

U utorak, Ožujak 22, 1910, Doktor. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 i 1920. Doktor. 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. Doktor.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, koji je bio 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. Nažalost, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

Često otkrivam da je najveći izazov u istraživanju ranog profesionalnog hrvanja odvajanje činjenica od fikcije. Čak i kad su se hrvači natjecali u legitimnim mečevima, često su napuhavali ishode, izgradili su apokrifni folklor oko svojih pobjeda i izmišljali fantastične priče kako bi objasnili svoje gubitke. Profesionalno hrvanje proizašlo je iz karnevala i zadržalo promotivne instinkte ove umjetnosti. St.

U prosincu 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. 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” promicanje hrvanja i pobijedio Munna za