Category: Storia del wrestling professionistico

Autore e artista marziale, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Autore e artista marziale, Nebraska, Autore e artista marziale “work”. Autore e artista marziale. Autore e artista marziale, they

Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hack” in the 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch

Gennaio 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 era un abile

Il capo della polizia di Omaha, H.W. Dunn ha fatto notizia a marzo 28, 1915, quando ha emesso un'ordinanza che vietava l'incontro di wrestling professionistico pubblicizzato tra Joe Stecher e Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 La partita era prevista per l'Auditorium di Omaha. Il capo in realtà ha emesso l'ordine per volere del sovrintendente di polizia A.C. Kugel. Kugel ha rilasciato una dichiarazione a

Dicembre 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis ha sconfitto Joe Stecher per il suo campionato mondiale di wrestling dei pesi massimi. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Tuttavia, 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, chiamato anche Evan Lewis “la Strangler”, era un wrestler professionista di 1882 a 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” o “hang hold”, che i moderni fan delle MMA conoscono come strozzatore a ghigliottina. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 torneo maschile

Balestruccio “Agricoltore” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Agricoltore” 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 sterline. In 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

Gennaio 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, alcuni lottatori americani avevano addirittura affermato di essere Nogert in precedenza

In November 1923, St. Il giornalista del Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy ha intervistato St. Il promotore del wrestling di Louis, John Contos. Murphy propose a Contos che l'era dei lottatori dominanti come William Muldoon fosse finita. Murphy ha parlato della recente partita tra “Campione del mondo” Hardneck Phillips e il contendente al gioco Webster O'Malley. Phillips ha difeso con successo il suo campionato lanciando O'Malley dopo 1 hour, 50

Ed “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”