Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling História

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 Gotcha, 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 “Kopnutie” in the 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 bol šikovný

Šéf polície v Omahe H.W. Dunn vytvoril titulky v marci 28, 1915, keď vydal príkaz zakazujúci propagovaný profesionálny wrestlingový zápas medzi Joe Stecherom a Jessom Westergaardom. The April 6, 1915 zápas bol naplánovaný na Omaha Auditorium. Náčelník skutočne vydal príkaz na príkaz policajného dozorcu A.C. Kugel. Kugel vydal vyhlásenie

Decembra 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis porazil Joea Stechera na jeho majstrovstvách sveta v ťažkej váhe. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Však, 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

On January 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, niekoľko amerických zápasníkov dokonca predtým tvrdilo, že je Nogert

In November 1923, St. Reportér Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy urobil rozhovor so St. Louis wrestlingový promotér John Contos. Murphy navrhol Contosovi, že éra dominantných zápasníkov ako William Muldoon sa skončila. Murphy hovoril o nedávnom zápase medzi nimi “Majster sveta” Hardneck Phillips a herný uchádzač Webster O'Malley. Phillips úspešne obhájil svoje prvenstvo tým, že hodil O’Malleyho po 1 hour, 50

Ed “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 absolvoval turné po Spojených štátoch 1910 v rámci prípravy na titulový zápas s majstrom sveta v zápasení v ťažkej váhe Frankom Gotchom neskôr v tomto roku. Jeho turné ho priviedlo do St. Louis v máji 29, 1910. Zbyszko sa mal stretnúť s uznávaným grapplerom v poloťažkej váhe Charleym Olsonom. Olson bol zručný zápasník, ktorý trénoval so sv. Louis zápasník George