جنگی کھیلوں کے مورخ اور مارشل آرٹسٹ
Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
جو اسٹیچر کے بارے میں افسانوی کہانیوں میں سے ایک ایک جائز مقابلہ سے متعلق ہے جو اس کا مارٹن میں سے ایک کے ساتھ تھا۔ “کسان” پہلوانوں کو جلاتا ہے۔, جب سٹیچر بمشکل ہائی سکول سے باہر تھا۔. برنز نے سٹیچر کی بڑھتی ہوئی ساکھ کے بارے میں سنا اور اسے اپنے ایک پہلوان کے ساتھ آزمانے کا فیصلہ کیا۔. سال کے لئے, میں نے سوچا کہ سٹیچر نے یوسف محمود کو شکست دی لیکن اس نے اصل میں یوسف حسین کو شکست دی۔. The
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler کے” لیوس. 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 “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought
جو امریکہ میں کشتی لڑنے والا سب سے بڑا جائز پیشہ ور پہلوان ہے۔? How do you determine it when wrestlers “worked” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 اور 1915
William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. یوسف “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
میں 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was
I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. While Griffin has insider knowledge due to his time in the Buffalo promotional office in the 1930s, he wrote the book for the purpose of revenge against the promoters who fired him. The book contains factual information mixed in with interesting
In the early 1920s, کرسٹوس تھیوفیلو نے کئی سالوں کے بعد جم لونڈوس کے طور پر کشتی شروع کی۔ “ریسلنگ پلاسٹر”. لنڈوس کو شاید یہ احساس نہیں تھا کہ نام کی تبدیلی ان کے لیے 1930 کی پیشہ ورانہ ریسلنگ میں باکس آفس کی سب سے بڑی کشش بننے کا پہلا قدم ہو گی۔. دوسرا مرحلہ سینٹ لوئس میں ایک اہم ریسلر کے طور پر ابھرنا تھا۔. لوئس. میں پیدا ہوا۔
On July 4, 1922, ایلن یوسٹیس نے ورلڈ ہیوی ویٹ ریسلنگ چیمپئن ایڈ میں اپنا شاٹ وصول کیا۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس. یوسٹیس, کینساس چیمپئن, کے ساتھ کوالیفائنگ میچ جیتا۔ “کسان” مارچ میں بیلی 1922 لیوس کے ساتھ میچ کے لیے کوالیفائی کرنے کے لیے. 31-سالہ یوسٹیس کی عمر اتنی ہی تھی۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس لیکن لیوس کہیں زیادہ تجربہ کار تھا۔. پر ڈیبیو کر رہا ہے۔ 14 عمر کے سال,
جلد میں 1915, Sam Rachmann promoted the New York International Wrestling Tournament with the intention of replacing retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Rachmann believed no one could defeat Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Rachmann’s handpicked successor to Gotch, in Greco-Roman wrestling. Rachmann’s challenge was catch-as-catch-can was the dominant wrestling style in America. To get around this challenge, Rachmann recruited international