Qeb: 20th Century Professional Wrestling

One of the legendary tales about Joe Stecher concerns a legitimate contest he had with one of Martin “Ua teb” Burns wrestlers, when Stecher was barely out of high school. Burns heard about Stecher’s growing reputation and decided to test him with one of his wrestlers. Lub xyoo, I thought Stecher defeated Yusif Mahmout but he actually wrestled Yussif Hussane. Tus

In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “tua”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests

Ua ntej lub creation ntawm lub territorial lawv nyob rau hauv 1948, Pro wrestling promoters fought nrog sib los tswj lub ntiaj teb championship. Promoting lub ntiaj teb tau zus ib coj mus loj rooj vag, Li ntawd, feem ntau promoters xav tswj lub championship. Hauv lub 1930s, promoters yuav nkag mus rau hauv agreements nrog sib tab sis lawv feem ntau fleeting. Thaum ib promoter tau offended, xav

William Hayes Shaw, Leej twg wrestled li Pat O'Shocker los ntawm feem ntau ntawm nws cov hauj lwm wrestling, Nrhiav tau nws tus kheej hauv qhov tsom teeb nyob rau hauv qhov tsom teeb 1933. O'Shocker tsis nrhiav no tsi koob meej ho. Ntawv xov xwm tau nqa ib zaj dabneeg txog li cas wrestling promoters sim siv O'Shocker nyob rau hauv ib ob-ntoo khaub lig. Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers tawm hauv New York thiab yog aligned nrog

Nyob rau hauv 1933, hais txog 10 Xyoo rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm wrestling hauj lwm, Jim Browning yuav yeej lub ntiaj teb npe. Pib nws cov hauj lwm nyob Kansas thiab nws lub xeev ntawm Missouri, Browning yuav tau tawm hauv cov chaw pib paub, Yog hais tias nws npaj kom mus zoo raws cov pinnacle ntau tshaj pinnacle hauv kev wrestling. Vim ntiaj teb Champions yuav tsum ncig xyuas teb chaws, thiab feem ntau thoob ntiaj teb, Lub npe ntiaj teb yog

Kuv twb sau yav tag los uas lub caij nplooj zeeg hais mav: Lub Barnums ntawm Bounce los Marcus Griffin yog ib qhov teeb meem problematic. Thaum Griffin muaj insider paub vim nws lub sij hawm nyob rau hauv lub Buffalo promotional chaw ua hauj lwm hauv lub 1930s, Nws tau sau phau ntawv rau lub hom phiaj ntawm kua zaub ntsuab tiv thaiv cov promoters uas raug rho tawm haujlwm nws. Phau ntawv muaj cov ntaub ntawv tseeb sib xyaw nrog nthuav

Nyob rau thaum 1920 los, Christos Theofilou pib wrestling li Jim Londos tom qab ob peb xyoos raws li tus gimmicky “Wrestling Plasterer”. Londos tej zaum tsis twb paub lawm tias lub npe hloov yuav tus thawj kauj ruam rau nws qhov biggest chaw ua hauj lwm attraction hauv 1930s kev wrestling. Cov kauj ruam thib ob yog nws emergence ua ib lub ntsiab kev tshwm sim wrestler hauv St. Louis. yug hauv

Nyob rau lub Xya hli ntuj 4, 1922, Alan Eustace tau txais nws txhaj tshuaj ntawm lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Eustace, Tus Kansas Champion, yeej muaj qualifying match nrog “Ua teb” Bailey nyob rau hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 1922 Tsim nyog rau ntais ntawv nrog Lewis. 31-Xyoo Eustace yog tib hnub nyoog li “Strangler” Lewis tab sis Lewis yog nyob deb tshaj tej yaam puab paub. Debuting ntawm 14 xyoo,

Thaum ntxov 1915, Sam Rachmann nce lub New York International Wrestling kev sib tw nrog lub tswv yim uas hloov retired ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Rachmann ntseeg tsis muaj leej twg yuav swb Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Rachmann tus handpicked successor rau Gotch, Nyob greco-Roman wrestling. Rachmann txoj kev sib tw yog catch-as-catch-can yog tus dominant wrestling style hauv America. Yuav tau nyob ib ncig ntawm no sib tw, Rachmann recruited thoob ntiaj teb