Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling Storja

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. Il 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

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

Fuq Jannar 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, ftit wrestlers Amerikani kienu saħansitra stqarrew li kienu Nogert qabel

In November 1923, St. Ir-reporter ta’ Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy intervista lil St. Louis promotur lotta John Contos. Murphy ppropona lil Contos li l-era ta' wrestlers dominanti bħal William Muldoon kienet spiċċat. Murphy tkellem dwar il-partita riċenti bejn “Champion tad-Dinja” Hardneck Phillips u l-konkorrent tal-logħba Webster O'Malley. Phillips iddefenda b'suċċess il-kampjonat tiegħu billi tefa' lil O'Malley wara 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 daret l-Istati Uniti fi 1910 bi tħejjija għal logħba għat-titlu maċ-Champion Dinji tal-Lotta tal-Piż Tqil Frank Gotch aktar tard matul is-sena. Il-mawra tiegħu ġabuh St. Louis f'Mejju 29, 1910. Zbyszko kien skedat li jiltaqa' mal-grappler ta' piż tqil ħfief meqjus ħafna Charley Olson. Olson kien wrestler tas-sengħa, li tħarreġ ma’ St. Louis wrestler George

Dwar April 3, 1908, Wrestling American Champion Frank Gotch sodisfatti World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt għall--Titolu Dinja fil Dexter Park Padiljun fil Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt kien ilu ma jitlef bħala professjonali iżda kien World Champion għal madwar 7 snin. Gotch kien sena akbar iżda meqjus bħala up and come. Il-partitarji u l-ġurnalisti li jkopru l-isport meqjusa bħala Gotch

Nhar it-Tlieta, Marzu 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller iltaqa Stanislaus Zbyszko fil-logħba lotta leġittimu. Wrestling professjonali se transizzjoni minn konkors leġittimu li wirja fi stadji bejn 1910 u 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller gradwat mill-Università ta 'Pennsylvania bil-logħob tal-futbol professjonali. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, li kien 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. Sfortunatament, 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.