Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Inlägg om brottare från 1900-talet, brottningsmatcher, och brottningsfilmer.
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, gården pojke från Humboldt, Iowa, skulle besegra George Hackenschmidt för World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship 1908. Denna seger och hans efterföljande nederlag “Hack” i 1911 omspel cementerade Gotch plats som en av de största brottare genom tiderna. Gotch var en mycket begåvad brottare men han var inte den obesegrade underbarn av legenden. Gotch
På Januari 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 was a skilled
Omaha polischef H.W. Dunn skapade rubriker i mars 28, 1915, när han utfärdade en order som förbjöd den annonserade professionella brottningsmatchen mellan Joe Stecher och Jess Westergaard. April 6, 1915 matchen var planerad till Omaha Auditorium. Chefen utfärdade faktiskt ordern på uppdrag av Superintendent of Police A.C. Kugel. Kugel avgav ett uttalande till
På December 13, 1920, Och “Strangler” Lewis besegrade Joe Stecher för hans World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Emellertid, 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
På Januari 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, några amerikanska brottare hade till och med hävdat att de var Nogert tidigare
In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy intervjuade St. Louis brottningspromotor John Contos. Murphy föreslog Contos att eran av dominerande brottare som William Muldoon var över. Murphy talade om den senaste matchen mellan “Världsmästare” Hardneck Phillips och spelutmanaren Webster O'Malley. Phillips försvarade framgångsrikt sitt mästerskap genom att kasta O'Malley efter 1 hour, 50
Och “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 toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis i maj 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George