Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Publicacións sobre loitadores do século XX, partidos de loita libre, e películas de loita libre.
En decembro de 14, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament was coming to a close. A featured match revealed promoter Samuel Rachmann was manipulating outcomes to keep interest in his tournament. After the wrestling public lost complete interest in the tournament during its opening few months in the spring, Rachmann introduced one of the most successful gimmicks in professional wrestling history. Rachmann
Georg Lurich made his reputation as a professional wrestler competing in European Greco-Roman wrestling tournaments. When Lurich travelled to the United States to ply his trade, he made the transition to catch-as-catch-can wrestling, the dominant style outside of Europe. Lurich adapted well to this style and earned a shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, Frank Gotch, no último de Gotch
A publicación desta semana é para rematar a historia do dobre cruzamento entre Dick Shikat e Danno O'Mahony.. As orixes do dobre cruzado comezaron realmente nun partido con Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis no Madison Square Garden en xuño 9, 1932. Aínda que este partido era unha exhibición prefixada, os loitadores estiveran discutindo sobre a caída do cinto por Lewis
En maio 21, 1915, o Wrestling Torneo Internacional comezou en Nova York. Samuel Rachman promoveu o evento como unha forma de amosar Wrestling Europea grecorromano Champion Alek Aberg. Rachman cría Aberg era o sucesor natural de Wrestling Campión do Mundo de Frank Gotch, que se aposentou en 1913. O primeiro día da competición, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up
En xuño 2, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament in New York City entered its second week of competition. Some of the tournaments big names were wrestling on this night. Alex Aberg, George Lurich and Wladek Zbyszko would all compete. It was Zbyszko who made the biggest impression. The first match involved two lesser talents, Pierre Le Colosse and Wilhelm Berner.
En marzo 22, 1919, E “Estrangulador” Lewis coñeceu Wladek Zbyszko á vaga Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight. Nunha vitoria sorpresa, Zbyszko derrotou Lewis para reivindicar o título. Desafortunadamente para Wladek Zbyszko, el só unha cunca de café co cinto. Un ou dous meses despois, Zbyszko perdeu o título para Joe Stetcher. This match was most likely
Escribo esta publicación para corrixir unha publicación anterior que escribín sobre as dobres cruzadas na loita libre profesional. Inicialmente pensei que os dobres cruzados remataron despois de que Stanislaus Zybszko cruzase o Gold Dust Trio.. Zbyszko, despois de aceptar perder ante Munn, derrotouno no que se converteu nun concurso lexítimo para o World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. E “Estrangulador” Lewis, quen deixou caer o
On February 26. 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko beat Alex Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Boston, Massachusetts. Zbyszko came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for Frank Gotch’s World Catch-as-Catch Can Championship. Wrestling insiders considered Gotch’s title the World Championship. Zbyszko could not beat Gotch in 1910. Before they had a rematch, Frank Gotch retired in
Escribín esta publicación debido a unha conversa na que me etiquetaron en Twitter sobre o 1911 revancha entre Frank Gotch e Georg Hackenschmidt polo World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Jim Cornette, que ademais de ser un dos mellores xestores da loita libre profesional tamén é un destacado historiador da loita libre profesional., falou do dobre centro no segundo partido Gotch-Hack
Cando “The Russian Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, coñecido como “Cabeza” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt gañou o título mundial en grecorromana