Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
On Sunday, Desember 17, 1906, Kansas City, Missouri reyndist enn einu sinni vera heitur staður fyrir atvinnuglímu sem 8,000 aðdáendur troðaðu ráðstefnuhöllinni til að horfa á endurleik Frank Gotch og Fred Beell. Beell vann American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship frá Gotch þremur vikum áður í New Orleans, Louisiana. Gotch hélt því fram að tapið væri tilviljun, while
Júní 11, 1976, Joseph “Toots” Mondt lést á leiðinni á Christian Northeast sjúkrahúsið í North St. Louis County. Mondt hafði flutt til St. Louis í 1969 að hjálpa til við að sjá um móður Öldu konu sinnar. Eftir að móðir hennar lést í 1971, Mondts ákváðu að vera áfram í St. Louis, þar sem Alda var fædd og uppalin. Mondt var goðsögn
Wayne “Stór” Munn er mikill uppgangur í atvinnuglímu. Frumraun í 1924, Munn “won” heimsmeistaramótið í þungavigt frá Ed “Strangler” Lewis snemma 1925. Fall hans var jafn snöggt. Með 1926, Munn var kominn á eftirlaun. Línumaður í háskólabolta frá Nebraska, Munn var ráðinn í atvinnuglímu af Billy Sandow, defacto leiðtogi Gold Dust Trio. The
Fred Beell var sterkur, hæfileikaríkur atvinnuglímumaður um aldamótin 20. Beell veitti öllum bestu glímumönnum dagsins erfiðar keppnir en skortur á stærð hamlaði oft getu hans með heimsklassa glímumönnum. Þó kraftmikið byggt, Beell var rausnarlega skráður í 5’06”. Þegar hann er þyngstur, Beell fór aldrei fram úr 170 £. Á meðan þú ert með líkamsbyggingarmann
Willard “Villi Bill” Longson fæddist í Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 8, 1906 en eyddi mestum hluta fullorðinsárs síns í St. Louis, Missouri. Eftir að hafa byrjað feril sinn sem atvinnuglímumaður í 1931, Longson fann sig vinna fyrir Tom Packs í St. Louis. Hann fór eiginlega aldrei þar sem það yrði heimavöllur hans það sem eftir var
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
Whether it was a double-cross or an attempt to setup a legitimate contest, Paul Bowser’s attempt to secure a match between Joe Stecher and Joe Malcewicz nearly resulted in a riot on March 11, 1926. Events of the previous year actually set this debacle into motion. From the end of 1922, the Gold Dust Trio of Ed “Strangler” Lewis, hans
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 og 1906. At the time of this match, Jenkins was the champion again. Fred Beell had been campaigning for a match with Jenkins for months. Beell finally convinced Jenkins to meet him but
Earl Caddock had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock only wrestled professionally until 1922. Þó, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back