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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Aprilis, 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fans Mahmout lentus provocator considerabat praesertim quia non viderant eum colluctationem. Aemilius Klank, procurator Gotch's, persuaserunt peregrinos luctatores cum bona fama Mahmout et Stanislai Zbyszko ad iter in Americam provocare Gotch. Fans
Alexander “Alex” Aberg fecit in headlines 1917 in lite super recusatione sua adimplere palaestram in Boston in mense Martio 1917. Aberg constat ad luctandum Wladek Zbyszko, eius principalis adversarius in 1915 Novi Eboraci Internationalis Wrestling Tournaments, ad Boston promotore Georgio Touhey. Autem, Aberg extraxerunt de IRCA paulo post subscribens pactum ad luctandum his
Gladys uxorem duxit et Georgium Hackenschmidt secundo verberavit, et in 1911, Mundus Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch coepit colluctatio strictiore schedula. Uxor eius Gladys non magna erat certaminis ventilatio et novum virum suum in Humboldt domo ampliori tempore manere voluit., Iowa. In mundo palaestrae tempore,
May 17, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko’s year-long tour of America continued as he met Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Buffalo, Novi Eboraci. Zbyszko, a Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion from Poland, wanted to generate interest in a potential match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. While Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American
ducens in suum Januarium 24, 1921 title match with former world champion Earl Caddock, Mundus Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangulatam” Ludovicus prior duos adversarios laesisse existimatur, Wladek Zbyszko et Joe Stecher, cum headlock. Ut uti Cicero headlock ad coxae pavimento iactare adversarium suum. Zbyszko pulsabatur insipiens, quando in capite ejus ledo
Octobris 25, 1915, Alexander “Alex” Aberg won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Wladek Zbyszko, the brother of Aberg’s former foe. In 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko defeated Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Stanislaus Zbyszko returned to Europe. It is doubtful Wladek Zbyszko could make a claim to his brother’s championship. Promoter Sam Rachmann probably created this
Et “Strangulatam” Lewis enjoyed one of the most successful careers in professional wrestling. Although Lewis wrestled in mostly staged exhibitions, he possessed legitimate wrestling skills. Future protege Lou Thesz said many times Lewis could beat any wrestler at any time, ideo ille est specimen mundi champion in moderna aetate compositus. Autem, early in his career, Lewis
At the end of December 1916, a strange event occurred. John F. Olin, a local Massachusetts wrestler, won a match with the current World Champion Joe Stecher. The referee declared Olin the winner after Stecher walked away from the match. Before the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) made changes to the rules in the 1950s, championships changed hands through disqualification or
John “Tigerman” Pesek wrestled several “shoot” matches during the “worked” era of the 1920s. By this time, American professional wrestlers cooperated with each other to put on exciting matches for the fans. Results were predetermined by promoters and managers. Legitimate contests or “shoots” were rare. When they did occur, it was normally to settle a dispute among promoters or a
Ad finem 1905, Fred Beell was traveling America hyping up a match with former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Beell was a former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion having defeated Frank Gotch in a “worked” match in New Orleans during December 1903. He lost the title back to Gotch a few weeks later. Capable wrestlers, Jenkins and Beell