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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Samme dag kjempet Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko om den anerkjente versjonen av World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i St.. Louis, Og “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
April 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” fyrstikker. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J. Quinn, en lokal St. Louis advokat, fungerte som manager for profesjonelle brytere George Baptise, Charley Olson og Fred Beell. Opprinnelig en beundrer av George Baptiste, som var en legende i St. Louis-området rundt Cook og Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste ville ansette Quinn som sin krybbe og senere advokat for telt- og forteltfirmaet hans. During his
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Rachmanns plan for å etablere Aberg gikk som planlagt etter at turneringen startet
In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, som trente og ledet Frank Gotch til World Heavyweight Championship, begynte å benekte at han utviklet den nåværende amerikanske tungvektsmesteren Joe Stecher. Påstanden virket rar fordi Burns hadde jobbet med Stecher i flere år. Burns hjalp til med å forberede Stecher til mesterskapskampen hans med Charlie Cutler inn 1915. På en måte, hva brenner
På slutten av 1910-tallet, profesjonelle brytere booket brytere i arbeidede eller forhåndsarrangerte brytekamper. Occasionally, vanligvis som et resultat av et dobbeltkryss, fans ville se en faktisk konkurranse eller “shoot” kamp mellom bryterne. En av disse kampene skjedde sent 1921 og oppsto fra en feide mellom Tex Rickard, først og fremst en boksepromoter, og Jack
Desember 14, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament was coming to a close. A featured match revealed promoter Samuel Rachmann was manipulating outcomes to keep interest in his tournament. After the wrestling public lost complete interest in the tournament during its opening few months in the spring, Rachmann introduced one of the most successful gimmicks in professional wrestling history. Rachmann
Georg Lurich made his reputation as a professional wrestler competing in European Greco-Roman wrestling tournaments. When Lurich travelled to the United States to ply his trade, he made the transition to catch-as-catch-can wrestling, the dominant style outside of Europe. Lurich adapted well to this style and earned a shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, Frank Gotch, i Gotchs siste
Denne ukens innlegg er å avslutte historien om dobbeltkorset som involverer Dick Shikat og Danno O'Mahony. Opprinnelsen til dobbeltkorset begynte faktisk i en kamp med Ed “Strangler” Lewis i Madison Square Garden i juni 9, 1932. Mens denne kampen var en forhåndsarrangert utstilling, bryterne hadde vært i diskusjon om at Lewis skulle slippe beltet
Mai 21, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament began in New York. Samuel Rachman promoted the event as a way to showcase European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alek Aberg. Rachman believed Aberg was the natural successor to World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, who retired in 1913. On the first day of the tournament, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up