Category: 20世紀職業摔角歷史

In November 1923, 聖. 路易星時報記者比利·墨菲（Billy Murphy）採訪了聖. 路易斯摔跤促進者約翰·康托斯. 墨菲向康托斯（Contos）提議，像威廉·穆頓（William Muldoon）這樣的主要摔跤手時代已經結束. 墨菲談到了最近的一場比賽 “世界冠軍” Hardneck Phillips和遊戲競爭者Webster O'Malley. 菲利普斯在投擲O'Malley之後成功捍衛了自己的冠軍頭銜 1 hour, 50

和 “扼殺” 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”

週二, 三月 22, 1910, 博士. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 和 1920. 博士. 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. 博士.

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

我經常發現在研究早期職業摔跤時面臨的最大挑戰是將事實與小說區分開. 即使摔跤手參加合法比賽, 他們經常誇大結果, 圍繞他們的勝利樹立了民間傳說，並編造了奇特的故事來說明他們的損失. 狂歡節爆發了職業摔跤，並保留了這種藝術的促銷本能。. 聖.

十二月 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 費城, 賓夕法尼亞. 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” 摔跤晉級並擊敗穆恩獲得冠軍