Category: 20th Century Professional Wrestling

The Gold Dust Trio’s dominance of professional wrestling in the early to mid-1920s bred lots of resentment with other wrestlers and promoters. This professional jealousy led to a famous double-cross in 1925. From this time on, the world title was disputed as Joe Stecher held one version, while Ed “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis held the other version. Due to the real resentment

The following excerpt is from my new book Double Crossing the Gold Dust Trio, which will be out this summer. During the summer (of 1921), the Zbyszko brothers received word that their mother was gravely ill. Making quick preparation, they let Curley and the other promoters know they would be leaving as soon as they could arrange passage on a

ಇದು ಡಬಲ್-ಕ್ರಾಸ್ ಆಗಿರಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಕಾನೂನುಬದ್ಧ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವಾಗಲಿ, ಜೋ ಸ್ಟೆಚರ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜೋ ಮಾಲ್ಸೆವಿಕ್ಜ್ ನಡುವೆ ಪಂದ್ಯವನ್ನು ಪಡೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಪಾಲ್ ಬೌಸರ್ ಅವರ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವು ಮಾರ್ಚ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಗಲಭೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಯಿತು 11, 1926. ಹಿಂದಿನ ವರ್ಷದ ಘಟನೆಗಳು ವಾಸ್ತವವಾಗಿ ಈ ಸೋಲನ್ನು ಚಲನೆಗೆ ತರುತ್ತವೆ. ಅಂತ್ಯದಿಂದ 1922, ಎಡ್ ನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ಧೂಳಿನ ಮೂವರು “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” ದಿಮ್ಮಿ, ಅವನ

Tom Jenkins had the distinction of being the only wrestler to defeat Frank Gotch multiple times. Jenkins and Gotch traded the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship between 1902 <ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "675" bbox_y = "628" bbox_w = "24" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = " 1906. At the time of this match, Jenkins was the champion again. Fred Beell had been campaigning for a match with Jenkins for months. Beell finally convinced Jenkins to meet him but

ಜೋಸೆಫ್ “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally from the early 1910s through the 1930s but he made his real mark as a booker, booking agent and promoter. While Ed “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis considered Mondt his equal in a legitimate wrestling match, Mondt has a genius for creating angles and finishes in worked wrestling exhibitions. Mondt would join Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow

When discussing Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign from 1921 <ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "423" bbox_y = "775" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = " 1922, the main reason given for taking the title from him was that his title reign was a box office failure. Do the numbers validate this belief? Prior to wining the championship, Zbyszko wrestled former champion Joe Stecher at the 71st Regiment Armory in front of 7,000 fans. <ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1563" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = " 1915, ದಿ

Joe Stecher started out 1915, a fateful year for his career, with a victory over Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled under the name Otto Carpenter for this match but was known to professional wrestling fans as Ad Santel. Santel had a deserved reputation for being a vicious “hooker”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made

ವಿಶ್ವ ಹೆವಿವೇಟ್ ವ್ರೆಸ್ಲಿಂಗ್ ಚಾಂಪಿಯನ್ ಎಡ್ “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis wrestled hundreds of legitimate wrestling matches with Joseph “Toots” Mondt over the years. During conversations with his young protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis said he only had to worry about losing to two wrestlers in his long career. Only Mondt and Stanislaus Zbyszko had a chance of defeating him in a legitimate contest. ಒಂದು

ಭಾನುವಾರ, ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ ತಿಂಗಳು 14, 1924, “Big” Wayne Munn wrestled Joseph “Toots” Mondt in the main event of the wrestling card at the Kansas City, ಮಿಸೌರಿ, Convention Hall. 10,000 fans showed up to cheer on Munn, a former college football player for the University of Nebraska. Munn was billed at 6’06”, which may have been an exaggeration but he was significantly