Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
A Nemzetközi Birkózó verseny két szakaszban került sor a május 19, 1915 és december 31, 1915. Ötven birkózók versenye első szakaszában a verseny, beleértve a világ a görög-római Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. A második részlet volt 40 birkózók, beleértve a feltörekvő csillag Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. A
Paul Pons volt a francia görög-római birkózás bajnok. Jó volt elég ahhoz, hogy George Hackenschmidt futni a pénzét több versenyen. Viszont, amikor eljött a Chicago 1900, ő “legyőzött” egy helyi birkózó. Körülményeit a veszteség hagy sok kívánnivalót. Paul Pons utazott az Egyesült Államokba 1900. Egy
Earl Caddock az 1910-es évek végén és az 1920-as évek elején viszonylag rövid, de történetekkel teli professzionális bunyós karriert futott be.. Profi debütálása 1915 miután három AAU nemzeti címet nyert amatőr birkózásban, Caddock csak addig birkózott profin 1922. Viszont, világbajnoknak ismernék el, miután áprilisban legyőzte Joe Stechert 1917. Caddock elveszítené a címet
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Földműves” 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 font. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg belebirkózott
On December 1, 1938 -on 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 éves korig. 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. Bár ez a történet lehet vagy lehet
“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 riválisára, George Hackenschmidtra nézett, 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 “The Terrible 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. Rachmann terve az Aberg megalapítására a torna kezdete után a tervek szerint haladt
On December 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 Feather belépett a