Category: 20e-eeuwse geschiedenis van pro-worstelen

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times-verslaggever Billy Murphy interviewde St. Louis-worstelpromotor John Contos. Murphy stelde Contos voor dat het tijdperk van dominante worstelaars als William Muldoon voorbij was. Murphy sprak over de recente wedstrijd tussen “Wereldkampioen” Hardneck Phillips en de game-mededinger Webster O'Malley. Phillips verdedigde met succes zijn kampioenschap door O'Malley erna te gooien 1 hour, 50

En “Worger” 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”

Op dinsdag, Maart 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 en 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, who was 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. Helaas, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

Ik heb vaak ontdekt dat de grootste uitdaging bij het onderzoeken van vroeg professioneel worstelen het scheiden van feit en fictie is. Zelfs als de worstelaars deelnamen aan legitieme wedstrijden, ze verhoogden vaak de resultaten, bouwden apocriefe folklore op rond hun overwinningen en verzonnen fantasievolle verhalen om hun verliezen weg te redeneren. Professioneel worstelen kwam voort uit de carnavals en behield de promotie-instincten van deze kunst. St.

Op december 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” wrestling promotion and beat Munn for the