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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Jeg skriver dette indlæg for at rette op på et tidligere indlæg, jeg skrev om dobbeltkryds i professionel brydning. Jeg troede oprindeligt, at dobbeltkryds sluttede efter Stanislaus Zybszko dobbeltkrydsede Gold Dust Trio. Zbyszko, efter at have accepteret at tabe til Munn, besejrede ham i det, der blev til en legitim konkurrence om World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Ed “Strangler” Lewis, der droppede
On February 26. 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko beat Alex Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Boston, Massachusetts. Zbyszko came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for Frank Gotch’s World Catch-as-Catch Can Championship. Wrestling insiders considered Gotch’s title the World Championship. Zbyszko could not beat Gotch in 1910. Before they had a rematch, Frank Gotch retired in
Jeg skrev dette indlæg på grund af en samtale, jeg var tagget i på Twitter om 1911 omkamp mellem Frank Gotch og Georg Hackenschmidt til World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Jim Cornette, der udover at være en af de bedste ledere inden for professionel wrestling også er en kendt pro wrestling-historiker, talte om dobbeltkrydset i den anden Gotch-Hack-kamp
På mandag, Juni 25, 1934, current World Champion Jim Browning defended his world title against Jim Londos. Browning dropped the title to Londos in a match to end the promotional war which led to the double-crosses of the early 1930s. 20,000 fans crowded into Madison Square Garden to see the match leading to a $40,000 gate. Jack Curley enjoyed a
When “The Russian Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, kendt som “Hack” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the world title in Greco-Roman
Fred Beell developed a reputation in the early 20th Century as a powerful and dangerous wrestler. His reputation was not built by his 1903 campaign. Beell suffered as many high-profile defeats as victories. Beell started well in April 1903, when he defeated St. Paul AAU Wrestling Champion James McAuley. McAuley won the first fall in 22 minutter. Beell vandt
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “arbejdet” matches thrown in the mix. Ved 1904 eller 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Men, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Oktober 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship men forblev ude af rampelyset indtil
På November 7, 1908, Charles Olson mødte “Americus” Gus Schonlein til World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Kampen viste sig at være lige så spændende, som observatører havde mistanke om, den ville være, men den endte i kontrovers. Olson blev 6’01” men vejede kun 170 pounds. Født Max Flaskamp i Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen i 1879, han tog navnet Charles eller Charley Olson