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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Digwyddodd y Twrnamaint Reslo Rhyngwladol mewn dau gam rhwng mis Mai 19, 1915 a mis Rhagfyr 31, 1915. Byddai hanner cant o wrestlers cystadlu yn y cam cyntaf y twrnamaint, gan gynnwys Byd Greco-Rufeinig Hyrwyddwr Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Mae'r ail randaliad wedi 40 wrestlers gan gynnwys hyd ac yn dod seren Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Mae'r
Roedd Paul Pons yn Wrestling Greco-Rufeinig Ffrangeg Hyrwyddwr. Yr oedd yn ddigon da i roi rhedeg am ei arian mewn nifer o twrnameintiau George Hackenschmidt. Fodd bynnag,, pan ddaeth i Chicago yn 1900, ei fod yn “trechu” gan wrestler lleol. Mae amgylchiadau'r golled yn gadael llawer i fod yn foddhaol. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. Un
Roedd gan Iarll Caddock yrfa reslo broffesiynol gymharol fyr ond llawn straeon ar ddiwedd y 1910au a dechrau'r 1920au.. Gwneud ei ymddangosiad proffesiynol cyntaf yn 1915 ar ôl ennill tri theitl Cenedlaethol AAU mewn reslo amatur, Dim ond yn broffesiynol y bu Caddog yn reslo tan 1922. Fodd bynnag,, byddai'n cael ei gydnabod fel pencampwr y byd ar ôl trechu Joe Stecher ym mis Ebrill 1917. Byddai Caddock yn colli'r teitl yn ôl
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Farmer” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 bunnoedd. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Ymgodymodd Berg yn
Ar Ragfyr 1, 1938 yn 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 mlwydd oed. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. Er y gall y stori hon neu efallai
“Don’t break my leg!” As the two muscular men struggled in the center of the ring, the man on top continued to work on the downed man’s legs. Eto, the man on bottom yelled, “Please don’t break my leg!” Edrychodd Frank Gotch drosodd ar ei wrthwynebydd George Hackenschmidt, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hackenschmidt
At the beginning of 1911, the wrestling public considered three men to be the greatest challenge to reigning World Champion Frank Gotch. Former champion George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko and “Y ofnadwy Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, decided to take some of the starch out of his challengers by matching them up
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Roedd cynllun Rachmann ar gyfer sefydlu Aber yn mynd yn ôl y bwriad ar ôl i’r twrnamaint gychwyn
Ar Ragfyr 23, 1903, Frank Gotch traveled to Bellingham, Washington to take on a 6’05”, 215 pound Native American wrestler from Montana. Wrestling fans in the area considered Chief Two Feathers to be unbeatable. Frank Gotch was not impressed with his reputation but he gave Gotch the most uncomfortable 15 minutes of his young career. Chief Two Feathers entered the