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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
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
دسمبر 13, 1920, اور “Strangler کے” Lewis defeated Joe Stecher for his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. تاہم, 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
جنوری 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, اس سے پہلے چند امریکی پہلوانوں نے نوگرٹ ہونے کا دعویٰ بھی کیا تھا۔
In November 1923, سینٹ. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy interviewed St. Louis wrestling promoter John Contos. Murphy proposed to Contos that the era of dominant wrestlers like William Muldoon was over. Murphy spoke about the recent match between “World Champion” Hardneck Phillips and the game contender Webster O’Malley. Phillips successfully defended his championship by throwing O’Malley after 1 hour, 50
اور “Strangler کے” 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. مئی کو لوئس 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
اپریل 3, 1908, امریکی کشتی چیمپیئن فرینک Gotch شکاگو میں Dexter پارک پویلین میں دنیا کے عنوان کے لئے ورلڈ ریسلنگ چیمپیئن جارج Hackenschmidt سے ملاقات, ایلی نوائے. Hackenschmidt ایک پیشہ ور کے طور پر ناقابل شکست لوٹے گیا تھا لیکن تقریبا کے لئے ورلڈ چیمپیئن رہ چکا تھا 7 سال. Gotch was a year older but considered an up and comer. Fans and reporters covering the sport considered Gotch
منگل کے روز, مارچ 22, 1910, ڈاکٹر. بنیامین رولر ایک جائز کشتی میچ میں Stanislaus Zbyszko ملاقات. پیشہ ورانہ کشتی کے درمیان کیا نمائش جائز مقابلہ سے منتقلی گے 1910 اور 1920. ڈاکٹر. بنیامین رولر پیشہ ورانہ فٹ بال کھیل کی طرف سے پنسلوانیا یونیورسٹی سے گریجویشن. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. ڈاکٹر.
Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, جو تھا 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. بدقسمتی سے, 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. سینٹ.