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Innlegg om brytere fra det 20. århundre, brytekamper, og wrestlingfilmer.
George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. Louis’ resident all-around athlete before taking over the company, Baptiste Tent and Awning, founded by his father Alexander Baptiste. Besides plying his trade as an occasional but accomplished professional wrestler, Baptise was a powerful swimmer. August 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.
On Tuesday, June 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
På lørdag, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, England. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Og “Strangler” Lewis er en av de to beste amerikanske profesjonelle bryterne gjennom tidene. Mens Lewis var en legitim innleveringsbryter, som kunne slå hvem som helst i en brytekonkurranse, han jobbet nesten utelukkende i forhåndsbestemte utstillingskamper. I 1929, han deltok i en kamp med profesjonell fotballspiller som ble bryter, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg var på Providence Steam Roller,
Verdensmester i tungvektbryting Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Colosseum torsdag, Desember 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. Louis
Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 fra hatet rival
On Tuesday, Desember 12, 1916, lokal favoritt, John “Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek kjempet med skytter, Al “nederlandsk” mantel, i en jobbet kamp. Pesek trente nylig med en annen Nebraska-bryter og anerkjent verdensmester Joe Stecher før denne kampen. Pesek utviklet et beryktet rykte for å skyte med andre brytere. However, Pesek var en 22 år gammel oppegående som fortsatt lærte å bryte, når
Oscar Wasem startet sin karriere i St. Louis, Missouri under veiledning av George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, St. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star