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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 bunnoedd. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Fodd bynnag,, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, a deithiodd i America i gymryd Frank Gotch ar ôl iddo orchfygu
Ar Nos Nadolig 1911, Cyfarfu Stanislaus Zbyszko Giovanni Raicievich mewn pwl reslo pwysau trwm hir-ddisgwyliedig. Zbyszko, a oedd yn ymgyrchu am rematch gyda Pwysau Trwm y Byd Reslo Pencampwr Frank Gotch, cytunwyd i daflu Raicevich 3 gwaith yn 90 munud neu yn cael ei ddatgan y collwr. Wrth i'r dynion fynd i mewn i'r Madison Square Garden enwog yn Ninas Efrog Newydd, Zbyszko oedd yn amlwg y
Ed “Strangler” 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
A dweud y gwir, 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. Roedd twrnamaint Rachman i ddechrau dydd Mercher
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. Dechreuodd reslo pan fydd y gêm pro yn dal gystadleuaeth gwirioneddol. Parhaodd i fod yn llwyddiannus ar ôl y gêm newid i weithiedig (prearranged) gemau. Mewn gwirionedd, cymerodd ran mewn cystadleuaeth saethu, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 trwy groesi ei hyrwyddwyr ddwywaith.
Trechodd Alex Aber nifer o elynion nodedig ym mlwyddyn fwyaf ei yrfa reslo proffesiynol. Yn 1915, Bu Aber yn cystadlu yn fersiynau Gwanwyn a Chwymp Twrnamaint Reslo Rhyngwladol Efrog Newydd. Cystadlu yn gyfan gwbl yn ei hoff arddull o reslo Greco-Rufeinig, Aber yn gorchfygu Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko ac Ed “Strangler” Lewis ynghyd â nifer o reslwyr teithiau.
Bu Fred Beell yn reslo'n broffesiynol o 1900 i 1919. Ar ôl datblygu enw chwedlonol oherwydd rhai o'i fuddugoliaethau dros Martin “Farmer” Burns, Dan McLeod a Frank Gotch, Ymddeolodd Beell fel yr oedd yn agosau 43 mlwydd oed. Byddai ei yrfa ar ôl reslo yn arwain at ei farwolaeth annisgwyl yn 57. Llwyddodd Fred Beell i ddod yn reslwr proffesiynol cymwys
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, y wrestler yn bencampwr y byd a codwr pwysau yn 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Cynnal Gotch y teitl am bum mlynedd a gorchfygodd holl ddyfodiaid. Ar oed cymharol ifanc 35, Penderfynodd Gotch ymddeol. Ar gyfer ei gêm olaf, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
Ar ddydd Gwener, Mai 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 cofnodion. 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. Defnyddiodd