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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Durante os primeiros anos 1920, Tex Rickard declarou a guerra ao seu antigo compañeiro de promoción de boxeo, Jack Curley. Curley promoveu a loita libre profesional na cidade de Nova York. Tamén organizou promotores en grandes cidades como Boston e St. Louis nun trust de loita libre. O trust controlaba o World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. A confianza conxelou a calquera loitador, que se negou a acompañar
A publicación desta semana é unha especie de confesión. Durante anos, Escribín que Frank Gotch foi o único loitador que derrotou a Stanislaus Zbyszko durante a súa xira inicial por América entre 1909 e 1914. Hai pouco lin Loita no xardín, Volume 1: 1875 para 1939; A batalla por Nova York - Obras, Tiros e Dobres Cruces (enlace de afiliado) por
Joe Stecher capturando o campionato mundial de loita libre de Earl Caddock é a película de loita libre profesional máis antiga que existe. Traxicamente, os promotores filmaron os partidos máis importantes das décadas de 1910 e 1920, incluíndo o segundo Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt., pero podrecían nas zonas de almacenamento. Os operadores de cámara filmaron a Ed "Strangler" Lewis vs. Wayne "Big" Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, e o partido de reunificación
Un dos contos lendarios sobre Joe Stecher refírese a un concurso lexítimo que mantivo cun de Martin “Agricultores” Loitadores de queimaduras, cando Stecher apenas remataba o instituto. Burns escoitou falar da crecente reputación de Stecher e decidiu probalo cun dos seus loitadores.. Durante anos, Pensei que Stecher derrotou a Yusif Mahmout pero en realidade loitou contra Yussif Hussane. O
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought
Quen é o maior loitador profesional lexítimo para loitar nos Estados Unidos? How do you determine it when wrestlers “Traballou” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 e 1915
William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
En 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was
I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. While Griffin has insider knowledge due to his time in the Buffalo promotional office in the 1930s, he wrote the book for the purpose of revenge against the promoters who fired him. The book contains factual information mixed in with interesting