Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Fred Beell glímdi faglega frá 1900 til 1919. Eftir að hafa þróað með sér goðsagnakenndan orðstír vegna nokkurra sigra hans á Martin “Farmer” Burns, Dan McLeod og Frank Gotch, Beell lét af störfum þegar hann nálgaðist 43 ára. Eftirglímuferill hans myndi leiða til óvænts dauða hans kl 57. Fred Beell sigraði langa möguleika til að verða hæfur atvinnuglímumaður
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, heimsmeistari wrestler og weightlifter í 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch haldin titilinn í fimm ár og ósigur öllum Koma. Á tiltölulega unga aldri 35, Gotch ákveðið að láta af störfum. Fyrir síðasta leik sínum, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
Á föstudaginn, Maí 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 mínútur. 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. Hann notaði
Í seint 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko ferðast til Bandaríkjanna til að skora heim Heavyweight glímukappi Frank Gotch. Áður en fundur Gotch, Zbyszko tónleikaferð til Bandaríkjanna og berjast mörgum staðbundnum wrestlers allan fyrri hluta 1910. Zbyszko myndi ferðast 37,000 kílómetra. Snemma í ferð hans, Zbyszko hitti Frank Gotch í fötlunar leik. Zbyszko sigraði Gotch, sem var
Á fimmtudaginn, Janúar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins varði bandaríska glímumeistaramótið sitt gegn upprennandi glímumanni frá Iowa. After the first fall, aðdáendurnir áttuðu sig á því að þetta var erfiðasti leikurinn á 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 hafði sigrað Gotch's
Í janúar 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 Greco-Roman Glíma Champion Frakklands í 1890s. Hann vann mótið á Folies-Bergeres áður vann mót í Rússlandi í 1898. Þessir sigrar gerðu honum kleift að gera tilkall til heimsmeistaramótsins í grísk-rómverskri glímu. Pons eignfærð á þessari frægð með því að opna ræktina til að þjálfa wrestlers og sterkra manna. Pons’ sigurinn var sérstaklega merkilegur vegna
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. Eftir
Í seint 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. Þó, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Með 1902, George