Category: Ιστορία Επαγγελματικής Πάλης

Ο Stanislaus Zbyszko έκανε περιοδεία στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες 1910 στην προετοιμασία για έναν αγώνα τίτλου με τον Παγκόσμιο Πρωταθλητή πάλης βαρέων βαρών Frank Gotch αργότερα μέσα στη χρονιά. Η περιήγησή του τον έφερε στο St. Louis τον Μάιο 29, 1910. Ο Zbyszko επρόκειτο να συναντήσει τον πολύ αναγνωρισμένο ελαφρύ βαρέων βαρών grappler Charley Olson. Ο Όλσον ήταν ένας ικανός παλαιστής, που προπονήθηκε με τον Στ. Λουί παλαιστής Τζορτζ

Τον Απρίλιο του 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt for the World Title at Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt was undefeated as a professional but had been World Champion for approximately 7 χρόνια. Ο Γκοτς ήταν ένα χρόνο μεγαλύτερος, αλλά θεωρήθηκε ανερχόμενος. Οι οπαδοί και οι δημοσιογράφοι που καλύπτουν το άθλημα θεωρούν τον Γκοτς

Την Τρίτη, Μάρτιος 22, 1910, Ο Δρ. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 και 1920. Ο Δρ. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Ο Δρ.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, ο οποίος ήταν 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Δυστυχώς, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

I’ve frequently found the biggest challenge in researching early professional wrestling is separating fact from fiction. Even when the wrestlers competed in legitimate matches, they often inflated outcomes, built up apocryphal folklore around their victories and made up fanciful tales to explain away their losses. Professional wrestling sprang from the carnivals and retained the promotional instincts of this art. St.

Τον Δεκέμβριο 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

Την Δευτέρα, Φεβρουάριος 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Μικρή Demon” Joe Acton met at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. It would be the first of several exhibition bouts between the men. They performed these exhibitions in the larger Midwestern cities in early 1887. Like the St. Paul match I covered in an earlier post, Lewis and Acton agreed to

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο, Θα συζητήσουμε τι Evan “Ο Στραγγαλιστής” Λουδοβίκος’ αναμονή θα ονομάζεται σήμερα. Main Content – Όταν άκουσα για πρώτη φορά από τον ασφυκτικό κλοιό "κολλάει στα χέρια» του Evan "The Στραγγαλιστής" Lewis, ακουγόταν σαν γκιλοτίνα τσοκ. Ωστόσο, διάφορες πηγές Έλεγξα το περιέγραψε ως μια οπίσθια γυμνή έμφραξη. Λουδοβίκος

Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” προώθηση πάλης και κέρδισε τον Munn για την