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Objave o rokoborcih 20. stoletja, rokoborske tekme, in filmi o rokoborbi.
Alex Aberg je v najboljšem letu svoje profesionalne rokoborske kariere premagal številne pomembne sovražnike. V 1915, Aberg je tekmoval v spomladanski in jesenski različici newyorškega mednarodnega rokoborskega turnirja. Tekmuje izključno v svojem priljubljenem slogu grško-rimskega rokoborbe, Aberg je premagal Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko in Ed “Strangler” Lewis skupaj s številnimi potniškimi rokoborci.
Fred Beell se je profesionalno boril iz 1900 za 1919. Potem ko si je pridobil legendarni sloves zaradi nekaterih svojih zmag nad Martinom “Kmet” Burns, Dan McLeod in Frank Gotch, Beell se je upokojil, ko se je približal 43 let. Njegova kariera po rokoborbi je vodila do njegove nepričakovane smrti ob 57. Fred Beell je premagal dolge težave in postal kompetenten profesionalni rokoborec
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, svetovni prvak rokoborec in uteži v 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch potekala naziv za dobo petih let in premagali vse novinci. Ob relativno mladosti 35, Gotch odločila, da se upokojijo. Na svoji zadnji tekmi, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
V petek, Lahko 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 min. 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. Uporabil je
V pozno 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko odpotoval v Združene države Amerike za izpodbijanje svetovnega prvaka v težki kategoriji Wrestling Frank Gotch. Pred srečanja Gotch, Zbyszko gostovala v Združene države in bojeval veliko lokalnih rokoborcev celotnem zgodnjem delu 1910. Zbyszko bi potovali 37,000 milj. Zgodaj v svoji turneji, Zbyszko met Frank Gotch in a handicap match. Zbyszko defeated Gotch, ki je bil
Četrtek, Januar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins je branil naslov ameriškega prvaka v rokoborbi proti obetajočemu rokoborcu iz Iowe. Po prvem padcu, navijači so ugotovili, da je bila to najtežja tekma c Franka Alvina Gotcha, Humboldt, Iowa kmetija fant, ki bi poraz Georg Hackenschmidt za svetovno prvenstvo v Težji 1908, je Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins je premagal Gotcha
V januarju 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 je grško-rimske rokoborbe prvak Francije v 1890. Je osvojil turnir v Folies-Bergeres pred zmago na turnirju v Rusiji 1898. Te zmage so mu omogočile naslov svetovnega prvaka v grško-rimskem rokoborbi. Pons kapitalizirane na ta slava z odprtjem telovadnico trenirati rokoborcev in močne moške. Pons’ zmaga je bila še posebej izjemna zaradi
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. Po