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Em janeiro de 10, 1910, recentemente chegou wrestler polonês Stanislaus Zbyszko assumiu Charlie “The Kid” Cutler em uma melhor correspondência quedas de dois fora-de-três. Cutler tinha sido um boxeador em uma trupe dirigida por John L. Sullivan antes da transição para luta livre. Enquanto Cutler foi extremamente difícil, Stanislaus Zbyszko tinha lutado desde a sua juventude. Zbyszko would use these skills to overcome Cutler
Em dezembro de 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. 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
Eu decidi começar 2020 usando dois exemplos de luta livre profissional para discutir por que você mudaria um relato histórico que escreveu no passado. Na escrita da história, você está limitado pelas fontes disponíveis sobre o assunto. Fontes primárias como diários, registros oficiais e autobiografias são muito valiosos. Outras fontes, como jornais, também são boas, mas
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
Em abril de 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. Em
Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. 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
No início de 1916, Martin “Agricultor” Queimaduras, 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
No final da década de 1910, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, geralmente como resultado de um duplo cruzamento, os fãs veriam um concurso real ou “shoot” partida entre os lutadores. Uma dessas partidas ocorreu no final 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, principalmente um promotor de boxe, and Jack