Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Echter, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Op oktober 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship, maar bleef tot dat moment uit de schijnwerpers
Op november 7, 1908, Charles Olson ontmoette “Americus” Gus Schonlein voor het Wereldkampioenschap Licht Zwaargewicht Worstelen. De wedstrijd bleek net zo spannend als waarnemers verwachtten, maar eindigde in controverse. Olson stond op 6’01” maar woog alleen 170 pond. Geboren Max Flaskamp in Krefeld, Noordrijn-Westfalen in 1879, hij nam de naam Charles of Charley Olson aan
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 pond. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Echter, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, die naar Amerika reisde om het op te nemen tegen Frank Gotch nadat hij had verslagen
On Christmas Night 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko ontmoette Giovanni Raicievich in een langverwachte zwaargewichtworstelwedstrijd. Zbyszko, die campagne voerde voor een rematch met wereldkampioen zwaargewicht worstelen Frank Gotch, stemde ermee in om Raicevich te gooien 3 keer binnen 90 minuten of tot verliezer worden verklaard. Toen de mannen de beroemde Madison Square Garden in New York City binnengingen, Zbyszko was duidelijk de
En “Worger” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, which Lewis started using as promoters and wrestlers transitioned professional wrestling to a prearranged or “worked” exhibition. Lewis originally used the front face lock or guillotine choke. Lewis’ namesake Evan “Strangler” Lewis made the front face lock or
Werkelijk, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. Het toernooi van Rachman zou woensdag beginnen
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. He began wrestling when the pro game was still an actual competition. He continued to be successful after the game changed to worked (prearranged) matches. In werkelijkheid, he participated in a shoot contest, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
En “Worger” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. In 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Alex Aberg defeated many notable foes in the greatest year of his professional wrestling career. In 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. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko and Ed “Worger” Lewis along with a number of journeyman wrestlers.