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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
ورلڈ ہیوی ویٹ ریسلنگ چیمپئن ایڈ “Strangler کے” لیوس کی سینٹ لوئس میں سابق چیمپیئن اسٹینسلوس زیبسزکو سے ملاقات طے تھی۔. جمعرات کو لوئس کولیزیم, دسمبر 14, 1922 لیکن ریفری کے انتخاب پر اختلاف کی وجہ سے میچ تقریباً منسوخ ہو گیا تھا۔. یہ صرف سینٹ کی شفاعت کے بعد تھا. لوئس کے پروموٹر جان کونٹوس نے بتایا کہ دونوں افراد سینٹ جان کو راضی ہوگئے ہیں۔. لوئس
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 نفرت انگیز حریف سے
منگل کے روز, دسمبر 12, 1916, local favorite, جان “نیبراسکا ٹائیگر مین” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. تاہم, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, when
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. لوئس, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, سینٹ. 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
دسمبر 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, مسوری. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, کینساس. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
نومبر 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled two of the most famous legitimate contests of the 1920s. Pesek ended two promotional wars by agreeing to “shoot” contests with Marin Plestina and Nat Pendelton. میں 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. جمعرات, ستمبر 14, 1916, Pesek wrestled another Nebraska wrestler, Chris Jordan. Fans and
اپریل 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff at the Hippodrome in New York City. Promoters once again called on Lewis to settle a promotional conflict. The opposing group selected Lee Wykoff, a 36-year-old shooter from Kansas. Wykoff stood six feet, one inches tall and weighed two hundred eighteen pounds. The 44-year-old Lewis
مجھے یہ کہتے ہوئے شرم آتی ہے کہ میں نے حال ہی میں کورا لیونگسٹن کا کیریئر دریافت کیا۔, 1910 اور 1920 کی دہائی کے دوران پیشہ ورانہ ریسلنگ میں مقامی پروموٹر سسٹم کی ترقی پر تحقیق کرتے ہوئے. ملڈریڈ برک پہلی بڑی خواتین کی ریسلنگ چیمپئن تھی جس کے بارے میں میں جانتا تھا۔. تاہم, کورا لیونگسٹن نے برک کی پیدائش سے ایک سال قبل عالمی چیمپئن شپ کا دعویٰ کیا تھا۔. Cora Livingston