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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
During the early 1920s, Tex Rickard declared war on his former boxing promotional partner, Jack Curley. Curley promoted professional wrestling in New York City. He also organized promoters in large cities such as Boston and St. Louis into a wrestling trust. The trust controlled the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. The trust froze out any wrestler, who refused to go along
This week’s post is a confession of sorts. Lub xyoo, I have written that Frank Gotch was the only wrestler to defeat Stanislaus Zbyszko during his initial tour of America between 1909 thiab 1914. I recently read Wrestling in the Garden, Ntim 1: 1875 mus 1939; The Battle for New York – Works, Shootes and Double Crosses (affiliate link) los ntawm
Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragically, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match
One of the legendary tales about Joe Stecher concerns a legitimate contest he had with one of Martin “Ua teb” Burns wrestlers, when Stecher was barely out of high school. Burns heard about Stecher’s growing reputation and decided to test him with one of his wrestlers. Lub xyoo, I thought Stecher defeated Yusif Mahmout but he actually wrestled Yussif Hussane. Tus
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” 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 “tua”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Ua ntej lub creation ntawm lub territorial lawv nyob rau hauv 1948, Pro wrestling promoters fought nrog sib los tswj lub ntiaj teb championship. Promoting lub ntiaj teb tau zus ib coj mus loj rooj vag, Li ntawd, feem ntau promoters xav tswj lub championship. Hauv lub 1930s, promoters yuav nkag mus rau hauv agreements nrog sib tab sis lawv feem ntau fleeting. Thaum ib promoter tau offended, xav
Leej twg yog tus loj tshaj tseeb wrestler wrestle hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas? How do you determine it when wrestlers “ua haujlwm” 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 thiab 1915
William Hayes Shaw, Leej twg wrestled li Pat O'Shocker los ntawm feem ntau ntawm nws cov hauj lwm wrestling, Nrhiav tau nws tus kheej hauv qhov tsom teeb nyob rau hauv qhov tsom teeb 1933. O'Shocker tsis nrhiav no tsi koob meej ho. Ntawv xov xwm tau nqa ib zaj dabneeg txog li cas wrestling promoters sim siv O'Shocker nyob rau hauv ib ob-ntoo khaub lig. Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers tawm hauv New York thiab yog aligned nrog
Nyob rau hauv 1933, hais txog 10 Xyoo rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm wrestling hauj lwm, Jim Browning yuav yeej lub ntiaj teb npe. Pib nws cov hauj lwm nyob Kansas thiab nws lub xeev ntawm Missouri, Browning yuav tau tawm hauv cov chaw pib paub, Yog hais tias nws npaj kom mus zoo raws cov pinnacle ntau tshaj pinnacle hauv kev wrestling. Vim ntiaj teb Champions yuav tsum ncig xyuas teb chaws, thiab feem ntau thoob ntiaj teb, Lub npe ntiaj teb yog
Kuv twb sau yav tag los uas lub caij nplooj zeeg hais mav: Lub Barnums ntawm Bounce los Marcus Griffin yog ib qhov teeb meem problematic. Thaum Griffin muaj insider paub vim nws lub sij hawm nyob rau hauv lub Buffalo promotional chaw ua hauj lwm hauv lub 1930s, Nws tau sau phau ntawv rau lub hom phiaj ntawm kua zaub ntsuab tiv thaiv cov promoters uas raug rho tawm haujlwm nws. Phau ntawv muaj cov ntaub ntawv tseeb sib xyaw nrog nthuav