Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
Posts de 20th Century luctatores, palaestrae, et luctando films.
In January 1905, well-regarded wrestler Gus Schoenlein, also known as Americus, agreed to meet Fred Beell in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein expected to beat Beell easily. At 5’10” et 210 pondo, “Americus” towered over the 5’04”, 170 pound Beell. While Beell was powerfully built, Schoenlein’s 40 pounds was a mountainous advantage. Both men were skilled wrestlers though. Secundo,
(Haec posta est elaborata ex recentissimo meo libro Masked Mirari ad Eripiendum: Gimmick quod servavit 1915 International Wrestling Tournament available on Amazon.) Lapsus versionem 1915 Luctantem LUDUS Internationalis in frequentia et cura, cum promotor Sam Rachmann aurum Lorem percussit, inducendo larvatum luctatorem in suum torneamentum. Masked mireris expugnavit
Cum Billy Sandow et Ed Lewis Stanislaum Zbyszko titulum regni decucurrissent de vapore promo, ut constituerunt “win” mense Martio retro titulum 1922. St. Ludovicus auctor John Contos magnum rematch, quod fieret in St. Ludovici Coliseum in Iovis, December 14, 1922. By this time, American professionales colluctatio extra
Die Saturni, January 30, 1904, George Hackenschmidt defended his Greco-Roman World Wrestling Championship against Ahmed Medrali. “Leo in Russian” would have to defeat “The Terrible Turk” to retain his championship. Promoters selected the giant Medrali, who was 6’02” et 224 pondo, to defeat the seemingly invincible Hackenschmidt. George Hackenschmidt stood only 5’09” tall and weighed 209 pondo. Despite his smaller
Die Jovis, November 22, 1923, St. Ludovicus auctor John Contos hosted card controversiae cumulum compositus inter Joe Stecher et Dan Kolov, et ascendit et veniens Bulgarica luctator. The card was covered by John E. Wray, Ludis Editor pro St. Ludovicus post Mitte. Cardo controversiae fuit quod duae stellarum maximarum in luctatione proscriptae sunt sed non
On a Thursday night, November 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, Novi Eboraci. Gotch agreed to forfeit the bout if he could not throw Zbyszko twice in an hour. Zbyszko’s size and strength created problems for Gotch, who weighed 190 pounds to Zbyszko’s 260 pondo. Autem, Zbyszko
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 “Hack” in 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
On January 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 peritus erat