Lewis tar titeln tillbaka från Munn,,en,Caleb Öppnar Manhood,,en

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Samma dag brottades Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko om den erkända versionen av World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i St.. Louis, Och “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

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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På 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” tändstickor. 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

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Charley Olson slår ryska

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Frank J. Quinn, en lokal St. Louis advokat, tjänstgjorde som manager för professionella brottare George Baptise, Charley Olson och Fred Beell. Ursprungligen en beundrare av George Baptiste, som var en legend i St. Louis grannskap runt Cook och Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste skulle anställa Quinn som sin krubba och senare advokat för sitt tält- och markisföretag. During his

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Masked Marvel To The Rescue

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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 för att etablera Aberg gick som planerat efter att turneringen startade

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Burns Denies Association med Stecher

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I början 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, som tränade och ledde Frank Gotch till världsmästerskapet i tungvikt, började förneka att han utvecklat den nuvarande amerikanska tungviktsmästaren Joe Stecher. Påståendet verkade konstigt eftersom Burns hade arbetat med Stecher i flera år. Burns hjälpte till att förbereda Stecher för hans mästerskapsmatch med Charlie Cutler in 1915. På ett sätt, vad Burns

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Pesek Palm Strikes Rickard from Wrestling

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By the end of the 1910s, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, usually as a result of a double cross, fans would see an actual contest or “shoot” match between the wrestlers. One of these matches occurred in late 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, primarily a boxing promoter, and Jack

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Belief No Longer Suspended

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På December 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

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Lurich Throws Losson

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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 sista

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Belgiska Bloodies tyska Wrestler näsa

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På maj 21, 1915, Internationella brottning turnering började i New York. Samuel Rachman främjas händelsen som ett sätt att visa upp Europeiska grekisk-romersk brottning mästare Alek Aberg. Rachman trodde Aberg var en naturlig efterträdare till World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, som gick i pension i 1913. Den första dagen av turneringen, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up

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