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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
בסוף 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 “חקלאי” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. אולם, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. לואיס, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. על ידי 1902, ג'ורג '
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “אלכס” Åberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into
ביום שבת, נובמבר 25, 1899, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 פרוטוקול. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. לואיס’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem דיבוק
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the
טורניר ההיאבקות הבינלאומי התרחש בשני שלבים בין מאי 19, 1915 ודצמבר 31, 1915. חמישים מתאבקים יתחרה בשלב הראשון של הטורניר, כולל עולם יוון ורומא אלוף אלכסנדר “אלכס” Åberg. היה התשלום השני 40 מתאבקים כולל מעלה באים כוכבים אד “<תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "976" = bbox_w "1948" = bbox_h "52" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "” לואיס, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
פול פונס היה היאבקות בסגנון היוונית רומית צרפתית אלוף. הוא היה מספיק טוב כדי לתת לי ג'ורג' Hackenschmidt לרוץ את הכסף שלו בכמה טורנירים. אולם, כשהגיע לשיקגו ב 1900, הוא היה “מובס” על ידי מתאבק מקומי. הנסיבות של האובדן משאירות הרבה כדי להיות רצוי. פול פונס נסעה לארצות הברית ב 1900. אחד
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “חקלאי” 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 קילו. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. ברג התאבק
בדצמבר 1, 1938 ב 5:15 בערב, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 גיל. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. בעוד סיפור זה עשוי
“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!" פרנק Gotch הביט לעבר יריבו ג'ורג Hackenschmidt, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hack