Category: Pro Wrestling-historie

Stanislaus Zbyszko turnerte i USA 1910 som forberedelse til en tittelkamp med World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch senere på året. Turen hans brakte ham til St. Louis i mai 29, 1910. Zbyszko skulle etter planen møte høyt ansett lett-tungvekt-grapper Charley Olson. Olson var en dyktig bryter, som trente med St. Louis-bryteren George

April 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 år. Gotch was a year older but considered an up and comer. Fans and reporters covering the sport considered Gotch

On Tuesday, March 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 and 1920. Dr. 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. Dr.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, who was 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. Dessverre, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

Jeg har ofte funnet ut at den største utfordringen med å forske på tidlig profesjonell bryting er å skille fakta fra fiksjon. Selv når bryterne konkurrerte i legitime kamper, de oppblåste ofte utfall, bygget opp apokryfisk folklore rundt sine seire og laget fantasifulle historier for å bortforklare tapene deres. Profesjonell bryting sprang ut av karnevalene og beholdt reklameinstinktene til denne kunsten. St.

Desember 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

På mandag, February 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Lille Demon” Joe Acton møttes på Battery D i Chicago, Illinois. Det ville være den første av flere utstillingskamper mellom mennene. De fremførte disse utstillingene i de større byene i Midtvesten tidlig 1887. Som St. Paul match jeg dekket i et tidligere innlegg, Lewis og Acton ble enige om det

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. I denne episoden, I discuss what Evan “The Strangler” Lewis’ hold would be called today. Hovedinnhold – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. However, several sources I checked described it as a rear naked choke. Lewis

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” bryting opprykk og slo Munn for