Category: 20Yüzyıl Profesyonel Güreş Tarihi

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” Demir kama, onun

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 ve 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

Earl Caddock'un 1910'ların sonu ve 1920'lerin başında nispeten kısa ama hikayeli bir profesyonel güreş kariyeri vardı.. Profesyonel ilk çıkışını 1915 amatör güreşte üç AAU Ulusal şampiyonluğu kazandıktan sonra, Caddock sadece profesyonel olarak güreşti 1922. Ancak, Nisan ayında Joe Stecher'ı yendikten sonra dünya şampiyonu olarak tanınacaktı 1917. Caddock unvanı geri kaybedebilir

Joseph “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 karşı 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. Içinde 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 “fahişe”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made

Dünya Ağır Siklet Güreş Şampiyonu Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled hundreds of legitimate wrestling matches with Joseph “Toots” Mondt over the years. During conversations with his young protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis said he only had to worry about losing to two wrestlers in his long career. Only Mondt and Stanislaus Zbyszko had a chance of defeating him in a legitimate contest. Bir

On Sunday, Aralık 14, 1924, “Büyük” Wayne Munn wrestled Joseph “Toots” Mondt in the main event of the wrestling card at the Kansas City, Missouri, Convention Hall. 10,000 fans showed up to cheer on Munn, a former college football player for the University of Nebraska. Munn was billed at 6’06”, which may have been an exaggeration but he was significantly

Nisan'da 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Hayranlar Mahmut'u zorlu bir rakip olarak görüyorlardı çünkü onu güreşirken görmemişlerdi. Emil Klank, Gotch'un menajeri, Mahmout ve Stanislaus Zbyszko gibi iyi şöhrete sahip yabancı güreşçileri Gotch'a meydan okumak için Amerika'ya gitmeye ikna etti. Hayranlar