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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Il-Tournament Wrestling Internazzjonali seħħet f'żewġ fażijiet, bejn Mejju 19, 1915 u Diċembru 31, 1915. Ħamsin wrestlers tikkompetix fl-ewwel fażi tal-kampjonat inkluż World Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. T-tieni pagament kellhom 40 wrestlers inklużi up u ġejjin star Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Il-
Paul Pons kien Wrestling Greco-Roman Franċiż Champion. Huwa kien tajjeb biżżejjed biex jagħti George Hackenschmidt run għall-flus tiegħu f'diversi tournaments. Madankollu, meta huwa wasal għall Chicago fl 1900, kien “defeated” minn wrestler lokali. Iċ-ċirkostanzi tat-telf tħalli ħafna li jkun mixtieq. Paul Pons traveled to the United States in 1900. Wieħed
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 lilha biss professjonalment sakemm 1922. Madankollu, kien ikun rikonoxxut bħala champion tad-dinja wara li f’April għeleb lil Joe Stecher 1917. Caddock jitlef it-titlu lura
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 liri. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg ġġieled fih
Fuq Diċembru 1, 1938 fuq 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 sena. 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. Filwaqt li din l-istorja tista’ jew tista’
“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 ħares lejn ir-rivali tiegħu 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 “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. Il-pjan ta’ Rachmann biex jistabbilixxi Aberg kien sejjer kif ippjanat wara li beda t-turnament
Fuq Diċembru 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. Kap Żewġ Rix daħlu fil-