Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Inlägg om brottare från 1900-talet, brottningsmatcher, och brottningsfilmer.
In late 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. Emellertid, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Genom 1902, George
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” 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
På lördag, November 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minuter. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem besatt
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
Den internationella Wrestling Tournament skedde i två etapper mellan maj 19, 1915 och december 31, 1915. Femtio brottare skulle tävla i den första fasen av turneringen, inklusive Världs grekisk-romerska Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Den andra delen hade 40 brottare inklusive upp och kommande stjärnan Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Den
Paul Pons var en fransk grekisk-romersk brottning mästare. Han var tillräckligt bra för att ge Georg Hackenschmidt en körning för sina pengar i flera turneringar. Emellertid, när han kom till Chicago i 1900, han var “besegrade” av en lokal brottare. Omständigheterna kring förlusten lämnar mycket att önska. Paul Pons reste till USA i 1900. One
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
På December 1, 1938 vid 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 år. 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. Medan den här historien kan eller kan
“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