Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling History

Omaha Chief of Police H.W. Dunn created headlines on March 28, 1915, when he issued an order banning the advertised professional wrestling match between Joe Stecher and Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 match was scheduled for the Omaha Auditorium. The chief actually issued the order at the behest of Superintendent of Police A.C. Kugel. Kugel issued a statement to

Τον Δεκέμβριο 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis defeated Joe Stecher for his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Ωστόσο, 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

Τον Ιανουάριο 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, a few American wrestlers had even claimed to be Nogert before

In November 1923, St. Ο δημοσιογράφος των Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy πήρε συνέντευξη από τον St. Ο προωθητής της πάλης Louis John Contos. Ο Murphy πρότεινε στον Contos ότι η εποχή των κυρίαρχων παλαιστών όπως ο William Muldoon είχε τελειώσει. Ο Μέρφι μίλησε για τον πρόσφατο αγώνα μεταξύ “Παγκόσμιος Πρωταθλητής” Ο Hardneck Phillips και ο υποψήφιος του παιχνιδιού Webster O'Malley. Ο Φίλιπς υπερασπίστηκε με επιτυχία το πρωτάθλημά του ρίχνοντας μετά τον Ο'Μάλεϊ 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”

Ο Stanislaus Zbyszko έκανε περιοδεία στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες 1910 στην προετοιμασία για έναν αγώνα τίτλου με τον Παγκόσμιο Πρωταθλητή πάλης βαρέων βαρών Frank Gotch αργότερα μέσα στη χρονιά. Η περιήγησή του τον έφερε στο St. Louis τον Μάιο 29, 1910. Ο Zbyszko επρόκειτο να συναντήσει τον πολύ αναγνωρισμένο ελαφρύ βαρέων βαρών grappler Charley Olson. Ο Όλσον ήταν ένας ικανός παλαιστής, που προπονήθηκε με τον Στ. Λουί παλαιστής Τζορτζ

Τον Απρίλιο του 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt for the World Title at Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt was undefeated as a professional but had been World Champion for approximately 7 χρόνια. Ο Γκοτς ήταν ένα χρόνο μεγαλύτερος, αλλά θεωρήθηκε ανερχόμενος. Οι οπαδοί και οι δημοσιογράφοι που καλύπτουν το άθλημα θεωρούν τον Γκοτς

Την Τρίτη, Μάρτιος 22, 1910, Ο Δρ. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 και 1920. Ο Δρ. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Ο Δρ.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, ο οποίος ήταν 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Δυστυχώς, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

I’ve frequently found the biggest challenge in researching early professional wrestling is separating fact from fiction. Even when the wrestlers competed in legitimate matches, they often inflated outcomes, built up apocryphal folklore around their victories and made up fanciful tales to explain away their losses. Professional wrestling sprang from the carnivals and retained the promotional instincts of this art. St.