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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Fred Beell kæmpede professionelt fra 1900 til 1919. Efter at have udviklet et legendarisk ry på grund af nogle af hans sejre over Martin “Farmer” Burns, Dan McLeod og Frank Gotch, Beell trak sig tilbage, da han nærmede sig 43 år. Hans postwrestling-karriere ville føre til hans uventede død kl 57. Fred Beell overvandt lange odds for at blive en kompetent professionel wrestler
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, verdensmester wrestler og vægtløfter i 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch holdt titlen i fem år og besejrede alle udfordrere. På den relativt unge alder af 35, Gotch besluttet at gå på pension. For hans sidste kamp, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
På fredag, Maj 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 minutter. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. Han brugte
I slutningen af 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko traveled to the United States to challenge World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Prior to meeting Gotch, Zbyszko toured the United States and battled many local wrestlers throughout the early part of 1910. Zbyszko would travel 37,000 miles. Early in his tour, Zbyszko met Frank Gotch in a handicap match. Zbyszko defeated Gotch, som var
På torsdag, Januar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins forsvarede sit amerikanske wrestlingmesterskab mod en kommende wrestler fra Iowa. After the first fall, fansene indså, at det var den hårdeste kamp af c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins havde besejret Gotch's
I januar 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
Paul Pons var den græsk-romerske Wrestling Champion Frankrig i 1890'erne. Han vandt en turnering på Folies-Bergères før vinde en turnering i Rusland i 1898. Disse sejre gjorde det muligt for ham at kræve verdensmesterskabet for græsk-romersk wrestling. Pons kapitaliseres på denne berygtet ved at åbne et træningscenter for at træne brydere og stærke mænd. Pons’ sejren var især bemærkelsesværdig på grund af
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. Efter
I slutningen af 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Farmer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Men, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Ved 1902, George