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Gennaio 10, 1910, recently arrived Polish wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko took on Charlie “The Kid” Cutler in a best two-out-of-three falls match. Cutler had been a boxer in a troupe run by John L. Sullivan before transitioning to wrestling. While Cutler was extremely tough, Stanislaus Zbyszko had been wrestling since his youth. Zbyszko would use these skills to overcome Cutler
Dicembre 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch perso una battaglia di tre settimane con intossicazione uremica. I medici hanno cercato di mantenere i suoi reni passa attraverso un'operazione di Chicago, ma fornito solo un sollievo temporaneo. Gotch destinate a viaggiare a Hot Springs, Arkansas per cercare di ripristinare la sua salute. L'operazione si è conclusa questa speranza. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able
Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” wrestling promotion and beat Munn for the
Ho deciso di iniziare 2020 utilizzando due esempi tratti dal wrestling professionistico per discutere del motivo per cui cambieresti un resoconto storico che hai scritto in passato. Nello scrivere la storia, sei limitato dalle fonti disponibili sull'argomento. Fonti primarie come diari, i documenti ufficiali e le autobiografie sono molto preziosi. Other sources like newspapers are good as well but
On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, Ed “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
Aprile 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. While they were supposed to be working the match, Lewis and Wladek Zbyszko struggled to work together. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. In
Frank J. Quinn, un locale St. Avvocato Luigi, è stato il manager dei lottatori professionisti George Baptise, Charley Olson e Fred Beell. Originariamente un ammiratore di George Baptiste, che era una leggenda nel St. Louis intorno a Cook e Vandeventer Avenue. Baptiste avrebbe assunto Quinn come suo manager e poi come avvocato per la sua azienda di tende e tende da sole. During his
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. Rachmann’s plan for establishing Aberg was going as planned after the tournament kicked off
In early 1916, Balestruccio “Agricoltore” Burns, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns
Entro la fine degli anni '10, i promotori di wrestling professionisti prenotavano lottatori in incontri di wrestling lavorati o preorganizzati. Occasionally, di solito come risultato di un doppio gioco, i fan vedrebbero un vero concorso o “shoot” incontro tra i lottatori. Una di queste partite è avvenuta tardi 1921 e nacque da una faida tra Tex Rickard, principalmente un promotore di boxe, e Jack