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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Jim Londos sawv los ntawm cov ranks ntawm kev wrestling ua lub biggest box office hnub qub uas tsis zoo xwb lub 1930s tab sis ntawm all-time. Txawm li cas los, Yog Londos twb tsis tuaj rau St. Louis hauv lub 1920s thaum ntxov, Zaj dabneeg yuav tau sib txawv heev. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved nplaum dynamite tawm nyob rau hauv tej pob khoom me me. Beell, tau zus ib lub teeb heavyweight wrestling, tua yeej tus American heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod. Ib lub Beell parlayed 1906 rau hauv xwb tus American Heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod thiab tam sim no American Heavyweight tau zus ib Frank Gotch. Yeej tus American Middleweight Beell (Sib Heavyweight) Championship tab sis tseem nyob hauv qhov tsom teeb kom txog rau thaum
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 7, 1908, Charles Olson ntsib “Americus” Gus Schonlein rau lub ntiaj teb teeb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Ntais ntawv proved yuav exciting li observers tsam nws yuav tab sis nws twb nyob controversy. Olson sawv 6’01” tab sis weighed xwb 170 phaus. Yug Max Flaskamp hauv Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia nyob rau hauv 1879, Nws coj lub npe Charles los yog Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich sawv 5 xwb’07” tiam sis siab weighed ib npag 220 phaus. Raicevich ris pro bodybuilder yam mob 50 xyoo ua ntej cov era steroid. Txawm li cas los, Thaum twg nws tuaj wrestling, Lub Raicevich tawm kev teeb twb tsis heev li no raws li nws physique. Raicevich yog ib yam txawv teb chaws wrestlers, Leej twg mus rau America coj rau Frank Gotch tom qab nws tua yeej
Nyob rau hmo Christmas 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko ntsib Giovanni Raicievich hauv ib npaum-ntseg heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, Uas yog campaigning rau ib rematch nrog ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, pom zoo muab Raicevich 3 ntau zaus 90 feeb los yog tau txais tus loser. Raws li cov txiv neej nkag mus rau famed Madison Square vaj nyob New York City, Zbyszko yog kom meej meej qhov
Ed “Strangler” Lewis yog ib qhov loj tshaj kev wrestlers thiab ntiaj teb champions txhua lub sij hawm. Lewis’ kos npe tawm yog cov stranglehold, Uas Lewis pib siv raws li promoters thiab wrestlers transitioned kev wrestling rau ib prearranged los yog "ua haujlwm" exhibition. Lewis muas thaum chiv thawj siv lub ntsej muag pem hauv ntej los yog guillotine choke. Lewis cov npe Evan "Strangler" Lewis ua lub ntsej muag pem hauv ntej los yog
Ua tau, Samuel Rachman, leej twg nce ob lub 1915 International Wrestling kev sib tw thiab ntiaj teb Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling tau tau zus ib Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, sim ntxias txijnkawm ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Frank Gotch rau hauv cov kev sib tw. Vam rau bolster Aberg tus thov raws li cov successor los Gotch Rachman. Rachman pab Gotch $20,000 yuav kom Aberg nyob hauv ntuj 1915. Rachman txoj kev sib tw yog pib Wednesday
Tsis muaj leej twg yuav nug tias Stanislaus Zbyszko yog ib tug poj wrestler. Nws pib wrestling thaum cov kev ua si pro tseem yog ib qho tseeb nhriav. Nws tseem yuav muaj kev vam meej tom qab qhov kev ua si hloov mus ua haujlwm (prearranged) ntais ntawv. qhov tseeb, Nws koom hauv ib contest tua contest, thaum nws legitimately tua yeej loj Wayne Munn rau lub npe rau 1925 Yog ob npaug-hla nws promotoers.
Ed “Strangler” Lewis yog ib lub sab saum toj ob American kev wrestlers ntawm all-time. Thaum Lewis yog ib tug tseeb submission wrestler, Leej twg yuav tuav leej twg nyob hauv ib wrestling contest, Nws ua hauj lwm yuav luag exclusively nyob prearranged exhibition qhov yuam kev. Nyob rau hauv 1929, Nws muab ib feem ntawm ib match nrog kev football neeg uas ua ntawv muab wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg yog rau lub Providence Steam Roller,
Alex Aberg defeated many notable foes in the greatest year of his professional wrestling career. Nyob rau hauv 1915, Aberg competed in both the Spring and Fall versions of the New York International Wrestling Tournament. Competing exclusively in his preferred style of Greco-Roman wrestling, Aberg defeated Dr. Rau cov menyuam Benjamin, Wladek Zbyszko and Ed “Strangler” Lewis along with a number of journeyman wrestlers.