Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Kansainvälinen painiturnaus tapahtui kahdessa vaiheessa touko 19, 1915 ja joulukuussa 31, 1915. Viisikymmentä painijat kilpailisi ensimmäisen vaiheen turnauksen lukien Maailman kreikkalais-roomalaisen Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Toinen erä oli 40 painijat lukien ja tulevina tähti Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
Paul Pons oli ranskalainen kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin Champion. Hän oli tarpeeksi hyvä antaa George Hackenschmidt ajaa rahansa useissa turnauksissa. Kuitenkin, kun hän tuli Chicagoon 1900, hän oli “voitti” paikallinen painija. Olosuhteet menetys jättää paljon toivomisen varaa. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. One
Earl Caddockilla oli suhteellisen lyhyt mutta tarinallinen ammattipainiura 1910-luvun lopulla ja 1920-luvun alussa. Tekee ammattilaisdebyyttinsä 1915 voitettuaan kolme AAU National -titteliä amatööripainissa, Caddock paini ammattimaisesti vain asti 1922. Kuitenkin, hänet tunnustettaisiin maailmanmestariksi voitettuaan Joe Stecherin huhtikuussa 1917. Caddock menettäisi tittelin takaisin
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Viljelijä” 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 kiloa. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg paini sisään
Joulukuun 1, 1938 at 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 vuotiaita. 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. Vaikka tämä tarina voi tai saattaa
“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. Again, the man on bottom yelled, “Please don’t break my leg!Frank Gotch katsoi kilpailijaansa George Hackenschmidtiä, 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 “Kauhea Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, päätti ottaa osan tärkkelyksestä irti haastajistaan sovittamalla heidät yhteen
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. Rachmannin suunnitelma Abergin perustamiseksi eteni suunnitelmien mukaan turnauksen alkamisen jälkeen
Joulukuun 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 astui sisään