Category: Borroka profesionalaren historia

Joan den hilabeteko blog batean, Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard partida antolatzeko sustatzaileek izan zituzten zailtasunei buruz idatzi nuen. Hasiera batean Omaharako antolatu zen, Nebraska, Omahako Polizia Burua eta Polizia Komisarioa kezkatuta zeuden partida aldez aurretik antolatuta edo a “work”. Ez zuten nahi apustuzaleak erakusketan hartzea. Gertaera hori saihesteko, haiek

Frank Gotch, Humboldt abeletxean mutila, Iowa, garaitzeko litzateke George Hackenschmidt World Heavyweight Borroka txapelketa 1908. Garaipena hau eta bere ondorengo porrota “Hack” in the 1911 errebantxa zementatuta Gotch en lekua garai guztietako wrestlers handienetako bat bezala. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch

Urtarrilaren On 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko was a skilled

Omaha Chief of Police H.W. Dunn created headlines on March 28, 1915, when he issued an order banning the advertised professional wrestling match between Joe Stecher and Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 match was scheduled for the Omaha Auditorium. The chief actually issued the order at the behest of Superintendent of Police A.C. Kugel. Kugelek adierazpen bat egin zuen

Abenduaren on 13, 1920, Eta “Strangler” Lewis defeated Joe Stecher for his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Hala ere, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud

Evan “Strangler” Lewis, Evan Lewis ere deitzen “Strangler”, batetik Wrestler profesionala izan 1882 arte 1899. Lewis lehen American Heavyweight Harrapatu-as-Harrapatu Ezin Borroka txapelduna izan zen. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” edo “hang hold”, MMA zale modernoek gillotina txoke gisa ezagutzen dutena. Lewis bere debuta profesional bat irabazi 64 gizon txapelketa

Martin “Baserritarrak” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Baserritarrak” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 libera. Urtean 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

Urtarrilaren On 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, borrokalari estatubatuar batzuk lehenago ere Nogert zirela aldarrikatu zuten

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times kazetariaren Billy Murphy elkarrizketatu dute St. Louis borrokaren sustatzailea John Contos. Murphyk Contos-i proposatu zion William Muldoon bezalako borrokalari menderatzaileen aroa amaitu zela. Murphyren arteko azken partidaren berri eman zuen “Munduko txapelduna” Hardneck Phillips eta Webster O´Malley joko lehiakidea. Phillipsek arrakastaz defendatu du bere txapelketa O´Malley jaurtita ondoren 1 hour, 50

Eta “Strangler” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”