Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling istorija

Wayne “Big” Munn’s a meteoric rise in professional wrestling. Debuting in 1924, Munn “won” the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Ed “Strangler” Lewis in early 1925. His fall was just as quick. Pagal 1926, Munn was retired. A college football lineman from Nebraska, Munn was recruited into professional wrestling by Billy Sandow, defacto leader of the Gold Dust Trio. The

Fred Beell was a strong, talentingas profesionalus imtynininkas XX amžiaus sandūroje. Beell gave all the best wrestlers of the day tough contests but his lack of size often hampered his ability with world class wrestlers. Nors ir galingai pastatytas, Beell was generously listed at 5’06”. At his heaviest, Beell never exceeded 170 svarų. While possessing a bodybuilder’s

The Gold Dust Trio’s dominance of professional wrestling in the early to mid-1920s bred lots of resentment with other wrestlers and promoters. This professional jealousy led to a famous double-cross in 1925. From this time on, the world title was disputed as Joe Stecher held one version, while Ed “Strangler” Lewis held the other version. Due to the real resentment

The following excerpt is from my new book Double Crossing the Gold Dust Trio, which will be out this summer. During the summer (of 1921), the Zbyszko brothers received word that their mother was gravely ill. Making quick preparation, they let Curley and the other promoters know they would be leaving as soon as they could arrange passage on a

Nesvarbu, ar tai buvo dvigubas kryžius, ar bandymas surengti teisėtą konkursą, Paulo Bowserio bandymas užtikrinti rungtynes ​​tarp Joe Stecherio ir Joe Malcewicziaus vos nesukėlė riaušės kovo mėnesį 11, 1926. Praėjusių metų įvykiai iš tikrųjų paskatino šį žlugimą. Nuo pabaigos 1922, „Gold Dust“ trio iš Ed “Strangler” Lewis, jo

Tom Jenkins had the distinction of being the only wrestler to defeat Frank Gotch multiple times. Jenkins and Gotch traded the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship between 1902 ir 1906. At the time of this match, Jenkins was the champion again. Fred Beell had been campaigning for a match with Jenkins for the past several months. Beell finally convinced Jenkins to

Juozapas “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally from the early 1910s through the 1930s but he made his real mark as a booker, booking agent and promoter. While Ed “Strangler” Lewis considered Mondt his equal in a legitimate wrestling match, Mondt has a genius for creating angles and finishes in worked wrestling exhibitions. Mondt would join Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow

When discussing Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign from 1921 į 1922, the main reason given for taking the title from him was that his title reign was a box office failure. Do the numbers validate this belief? Prior to wining the championship, Zbyszko wrestled former champion Joe Stecher at the 71st Regiment Armory in front of 7,000 fans. Į 1915, the

Joe Stecher started out 1915, a fateful year for his career, with a victory over Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled under the name Otto Carpenter for this match but was known to professional wrestling fans as Ad Santel. Santel had a deserved reputation for being a vicious “prostitutė”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made