היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
טורניר ההיאבקות הבינלאומי התרחש בשני שלבים בין מאי 19, 1915 ודצמבר 31, 1915. חמישים מתאבקים יתחרה בשלב הראשון של הטורניר, כולל עולם יוון ורומא אלוף אלכסנדר “אלכס” Åberg. היה התשלום השני 40 מתאבקים כולל מעלה באים כוכבים אד “<תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "976" = bbox_w "1948" = bbox_h "52" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "” לואיס, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. The
פול פונס היה היאבקות בסגנון היוונית רומית צרפתית אלוף. הוא היה מספיק טוב כדי לתת לי ג'ורג' Hackenschmidt לרוץ את הכסף שלו בכמה טורנירים. אולם, כשהגיע לשיקגו ב 1900, הוא היה “מובס” על ידי מתאבק מקומי. הנסיבות של האובדן משאירות הרבה כדי להיות רצוי. פול פונס נסעה לארצות הברית ב 1900. אחד
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. אולם, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “חקלאי” 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 קילו. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. ברג התאבק
בדצמבר 1, 1938 ב 5:15 בערב, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 גיל. 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. בעוד סיפור זה עשוי
“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!" פרנק Gotch הביט לעבר יריבו ג'ורג Hackenschmidt, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hack
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 “האיום הטורקי” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, החליט לקחת חלק העמילן מתוך התיגר שלו על ידי התאמת אותם
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. תוכניתו של Rachmann להקמת Åberg הלך כמתוכנן לאחר הטורניר יצא לדרך
בדצמבר 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. שתי נוצות ראשיות נכנסו