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Posts li 20th xyoo pua wrestlers, wrestling qhov yuam kev, thiab wrestling films.
Ua ntej wrestling hauv Kentucky hauv lub 1910s thaum ntxov, Wrestling kiv cua paub Ed "Strangler" Lewis li Bob Fredrichs. Yug Robert Friedrich hauv Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Lewis ua nws kev wrestling debut hauv 1905, tseem tsuas 14 xyoo. Kentucky promoters xav Bob Fredrichs ib yam nkaus thiab dawb, Ces Lewis xaiv nws lub npe tshiab raws li ib homage rau koj txog haujlwm Wisconsin haiv neeg thiab thawj
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 25, 1915, Aleksander “Alex” Yeej lub qab ntuj Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship los Wladek Zbyszko Aberg, kwv tij ntawm Aberg tus qub foe. Nyob rau hauv 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko tua yeej Aberg rau lub ntiaj teb Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Stanislaus Zbyszko rov qab mus teb chaws Europe. Nws yog doubtful Wladek Zbyszko yuav ua ntaubntawv thov rau nws tus kwv championship. Promoter Sam Rachmann tej zaum tsim no
Saum ntuj 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins wrestled tus giant Nouralah Hassan nyob New York City. Yug hauv Bulgaria thaum lub sij hawm 1870, Hassan sawv rau taw, yim nti siab thiab weighed 331 phaus. Thaum Jenkins possessed superior wrestling txawj ntse, Kiv cua thiab reporters xav pom Hassan tus immense loj los tam sim no teeb meem rau Jenkins. Promoters booked cov txiv neej mus wrestle ntawm Madison Square vaj nyob rau hauv
Rau lub yim hli ntuj 4, 1939, Mort Henderson kis tseg hauv Rochester, New York nyob New York nyob New York ntawm 60 xyoo. Wrestling kiv cua yuav tsis nco ntsoov lub npe Mort Henderson tab sis raws li nws alter ego, Tus thawj Masked Marvel, Nws rua lub caij nplooj zeeg version ntawm tus 1915 Tseev tsim ntiaj teb Wrestling kev sib tw nyob New York City. Sam Rachmann nce cov kev sib tw nrog lub hom phiaj ntawm
Taro Miyake originally came to prominence as a jiu jitsu expert fighting legitimate mixed styles contests with professional boxers and wrestlers. Miyake used the legitimate contests, most of which he won, to generate interest in jiu jitsu. Like many judo and jiu jitsu instructors, Miyake discovered how hard it was to make a sustainable income from martial arts instruction. Taro
George Tragos gained fame as the trainer of Lou Thesz, the dominant National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion of the 1950s and early 1960s. Tragos, ib 1920 Olympian for his native Greece, possessed an impeccable resume in legitimate wrestling. Born March 14, 1901, in Messinia, Greece, Tragos won national wrestling titles before representing Greece at the 1920 Olympics at only
Qhov kawg ntawm 1932, 22-year-old Vila Milli sued her husband, professional wrestler Wladek Zbyszko, for divorce alleging physical cruelty and adultery. Milli charged the 41-year-old Zbyszko with physical cruelty for “hugging her too hard.” Justice Dunne of the Brooklyn Supreme Court heard the divorce case. He expressed doubt that Zbyszko abused his wife. Txawm li cas los, he did not dismiss the
Frank Gotch dominated American wrestling from 1905 to his retirement in 1913. Gotch, the current American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, won the biggest match of his career on April 3, 1908. Gotch defeated current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Georg Hackenschmidt in Chicago, Illinois. Gotch proved as dominant a World Champion as he had been as the American Champion. Gotch agreed to
Txog hnub plaub, Tim 29, 1909, Frank Gotch traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to wrestle highly regarded light heavyweight wrestler Charles Hackenschmidt. Hackenschmidt won the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship under his real name, John Berg. Although fans thought well of Berg, they did not see him as a threat to defeat Frank Gotch in a straight match. To increase fan interest
Joe Stecher wrestled during a transitional time in American professional wrestling. Ua ntej los 1900, wrestlers engaged primarily in legitimate contests although wrestlers did work matches occasionally. Tom qab 1915, all wrestlers worked their matches. Wrestlers wrestled legitimate contests only to settle promotional dispute or to pull off a double-cross. Ntawm 1900 mus 1915, wrestlers engaged in a mixture of worked matches