Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Farmer” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 pounds. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg brottades in
“Don’t break my leg!” As the two muscular men struggled in the center of the ring, the man on top continued to work on the downed man’s legs. Again, the man on bottom yelled, “Please don’t break my leg!” Frank Gotch tittade över på sin rival George Hackenschmidt, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hackenschmidt
At the beginning of 1911, the wrestling public considered three men to be the greatest challenge to reigning World Champion Frank Gotch. Former champion George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko and “Den Terrible Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, bestämde sig för att ta lite av stärkelsen ur sina utmanare genom att matcha dem
På December 23, 1903, Frank Gotch traveled to Bellingham, Washington to take on a 6’05”, 215 pound Native American wrestler from Montana. Wrestling fans in the area considered Chief Two Feathers to be unbeatable. Frank Gotch was not impressed with his reputation but he gave Gotch the most uncomfortable 15 minutes of his young career. Chief Two Feathers gick in i
På måndag, December 13, 1920, Och “Strangler” Lewis vann det första av sex World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships från Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. Ett år innan denna match, Stecher och Lewis möttes i en match som varade över tre timmar. Lewis gjorde ett mentalt misstag
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” i St. Louis during the 1904 Världsutställningen. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate länk) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 years until losing his
The May 9, 1905 upplagan av St. Louis republikens sportsektion innehöll en berättelse om en kommande match mellan lokala brottare George Baptiste och turnerande World Wrestling Champion, George Hackenschmidt. The paper did not give Baptiste a chance against Hackenschmidt, som bara slog Tom Jenkins för VM. Om redaktören visste “Hack ter” condition at the time, he may have
Stanislaus Zbyszko föddes Stanislaw Jan Cygankiewicz på April 1, 1879 i Jodlow, Polen, som var en del av Österrike-Ungern. Enligt Wikipedia, han valde ringnamnet Stanislaus Zbyszko eftersom det var namnet på en fiktiv polsk riddare. En artikel i Walla Walla, Tidningen Washington, Afton Statesman s tisdag, Februari 8, 1910 edition, publicized Zbyszko’s university and
George Hackenschmidt (1877-1968) var ett världsrekord hålla tyngdlyftare och World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion innan brottning var uppgjort och lyftare använde steroider. Hackenschmidt uppnått en nivå av storhet beror på flera faktorer. Han uppnådde en hög nivå av fysisk kondition. His physical condition allowed him to be the most successful wrestler of his era. A few wrestlers may have been