Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling Saga

Heimsmeistari í þungavigt í glímu Ed “Strangler” Lewis glímdi hundruð lögmætra glímu við Joseph “Toots” Mondt í gegnum árin. Í samtölum við unga skjólstæðing sinn, Lou Thesz, Lewis sagðist aðeins þurfa að hafa áhyggjur af því að tapa fyrir tveimur glímumönnum á löngum ferli sínum. Aðeins Mondt og Stanislaus Zbyszko áttu möguleika á að sigra hann í lögmætri keppni. One

On Sunday, Desember 14, 1924, “Stór” Wayne Munn glímdi við Joseph “Toots” Mondt í aðalbardaga glímukortsins í Kansas City, Missouri, Ráðstefnusalur. 10,000 aðdáendur mættu til að hvetja Munn, fyrrverandi háskólaboltamaður fyrir háskólann í Nebraska. Munn var rukkaður 6’06”, sem kann að hafa verið ýkjur en hann var verulega

Apríl 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, í Chicago, Illinois for his title. Aðdáendur töldu Mahmout harðan áskoranda fyrst og fremst vegna þess að þeir höfðu ekki séð hann glíma. Emil Klank, framkvæmdastjóri Gotch, sannfærði erlenda glímumenn með gott orðspor eins og Mahmout og Stanislaus Zbyszko um að ferðast til Ameríku til að skora á Gotch. Aðdáendur

Eftir að hafa giftst konu sinni Gladys og barið Georg Hackenschmidt í annað sinn, bæði inn 1911, Heimsmeistarinn í þungavigt, Frank Gotch, byrjaði að glíma með takmarkaðri dagskrá. Eiginkona hans Gladys var ekki mikill aðdáandi glímu og vildi að nýi eiginmaðurinn hennar myndi eyða meiri tíma heima í Humboldt, Iowa. Í heimi glímunnar á sínum tíma,

Á maí 17, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko’s year-long tour of America continued as he met Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Buffalo, New York. Zbyszko, a Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion from Poland, wanted to generate interest in a potential match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. While Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American

Leading into his January 24, 1921 title match with former world champion Earl Caddock, Heimsmeistari í þungavigt í glímu Ed “Strangler” Lewis was reputed to have injured his previous two opponents, Wladek Zbyszko and Joe Stecher, with his headlock. Lewis would use the headlock to hip toss his opponent to the floor. Zbyszko was knocked senseless, when his head hit the

On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Farmer” Burns met the small but powerful Fred Beell. While both wrestlers weighed 165 £, “Farmer” Burns stood 5’11” to Beell’s 5’04”. The 32-year-old Beell had a big age advantage over the 47-year-old Burns though. Burns debuted in 1879, when Beell was 3-years-old. The men were scheduled for a match in Omaha, Nebraska, one

Og “Strangler” Lewis enjoyed one of the most successful careers in professional wrestling. Although Lewis wrestled in mostly staged exhibitions, he possessed legitimate wrestling skills. Future protege Lou Thesz said many times Lewis could beat any wrestler at any time, so he was the ideal world champion in the modern era of prearranged matches. Þó, early in his career, Lewis

At the end of December 1916, a strange event occurred. John F. Olin, a local Massachusetts wrestler, won a match with the current World Champion Joe Stecher. The referee declared Olin the winner after Stecher walked away from the match. Before the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) made changes to the rules in the 1950s, championships changed hands through disqualification or