Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Aberg was the Russian Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion. Rachman believed Aberg could beat any wrestler. Rachman also wanted to lure Frank Gotch, the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, out of retirement to wrestle with Aberg. Gotch wrestled George Lurich in
In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they
Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hakk” í því 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch
Janúar 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko var þjálfaður
Lögreglustjórinn í Omaha, H.W. Dunn skapaði fyrirsagnir í mars 28, 1915, þegar hann gaf út skipun um að banna auglýsta atvinnuglímu Joe Stecher og Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 Leikurinn var á dagskrá í Omaha Auditorium. Yfirmaðurinn gaf í raun út skipunina að beiðni lögreglustjóra A.C. Kugel. Kugel gaf út yfirlýsingu til
Á Desember 13, 1920, Og “Strangler” Lewis sigraði Joe Stecher fyrir heimsmeistaramótið í þungavigt. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Þó, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud
Janúar 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, nokkrir amerískir glímukappar höfðu jafnvel sagt að þeir væru Nogert áður
In November 1923, St. Billy Murphy, blaðamaður Louis Star-Times, tók viðtal við St. John Contos, umboðsmaður Louis-glímunnar. Murphy lagði til við Contos að tímabil ríkjandi glímumanna eins og William Muldoon væri lokið. Murphy talaði um nýlega leik á milli “Heimsmeistari” Hardneck Phillips og keppandinn Webster O'Malley. Phillips varði meistaratitilinn sinn með góðum árangri með því að henda O'Malley á eftir 1 hour, 50
Og “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”
Stanislaus Zbyszko ferðaðist um Bandaríkin í 1910 til undirbúnings fyrir titilleik með heimsmeistaranum í þungavigt, Frank Gotch, síðar á árinu. Ferð hans leiddi hann til St. Louis í maí 29, 1910. Zbyszko átti að hitta virtan léttþungavigtarmanninn Charley Olson. Olson var hæfur glímumaður, sem æfði með St. Louis glímukappinn George