جنگی کھیلوں کے مورخ اور مارشل آرٹسٹ
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
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
جو امریکہ میں کشتی لڑنے والا سب سے بڑا جائز پیشہ ور پہلوان ہے۔? How do you determine it when wrestlers “worked” 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 اور 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. یوسف “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
میں 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
In the early 1920s, کرسٹوس تھیوفیلو نے کئی سالوں کے بعد جم لونڈوس کے طور پر کشتی شروع کی۔ “ریسلنگ پلاسٹر”. لنڈوس کو شاید یہ احساس نہیں تھا کہ نام کی تبدیلی ان کے لیے 1930 کی پیشہ ورانہ ریسلنگ میں باکس آفس کی سب سے بڑی کشش بننے کا پہلا قدم ہو گی۔. دوسرا مرحلہ سینٹ لوئس میں ایک اہم ریسلر کے طور پر ابھرنا تھا۔. لوئس. میں پیدا ہوا۔
On July 4, 1922, ایلن یوسٹیس نے ورلڈ ہیوی ویٹ ریسلنگ چیمپئن ایڈ میں اپنا شاٹ وصول کیا۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس. یوسٹیس, کینساس چیمپئن, کے ساتھ کوالیفائنگ میچ جیتا۔ “کسان” مارچ میں بیلی 1922 لیوس کے ساتھ میچ کے لیے کوالیفائی کرنے کے لیے. 31-سالہ یوسٹیس کی عمر اتنی ہی تھی۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس لیکن لیوس کہیں زیادہ تجربہ کار تھا۔. پر ڈیبیو کر رہا ہے۔ 14 عمر کے سال,
جلد میں 1915, Sam Rachmann promoted the New York International Wrestling Tournament with the intention of replacing retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Rachmann believed no one could defeat Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Rachmann’s handpicked successor to Gotch, in Greco-Roman wrestling. Rachmann’s challenge was catch-as-catch-can was the dominant wrestling style in America. To get around this challenge, Rachmann recruited international
میں 1922, future World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Jim Browning began his career in Kansas. Browning moved from his hometown of Verona, Missouri in 1921 to train for a professional wrestling career. Tom Law, the Wichita, Kansas promoter, oversaw Browning’s training. By May 1923, Browning was already in the main event at smaller shows. On an Augusta, Kansas card, Browning wrestled
مارچ 3, 1922, اور “Strangler کے” Lewis regained the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Stanislaus Zbyszko. This event marked the beginning of one of the most dominant professional wrestling combines in history. Manager Billy Sandow, World Champion Ed “Strangler کے” Lewis and training partner/promotional genius Joseph “Toots” Mondt, known as the “Gold Dust Trio”, dominated the sport for the next six