Category: Historia pro wrestlingu

On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Jaskółka oknówka “Rolnik” Burns poznał małego, ale potężnego Freda Beella. Podczas gdy obaj zapaśnicy zważyli 165 funtów, “Rolnik” Burns wytrzymał 5'11” do Beella 5’04”. 32-letni Beell miał jednak dużą przewagę wiekową nad 47-letnim Burnsem. Burns zadebiutował w 1879, kiedy Beell miał 3 lata. Mężczyźni mieli zmierzyć się ze sobą w Omaha, Nebraska, jeden

Tego samego dnia Joe Stecher walczył ze Stanisławem Zbyszkiem o uznaną wersję mistrzostw świata w wadze ciężkiej w zapasach w St.. Louis, I “Dusiciel” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and

Evan “Dusiciel” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 funtów, Chwytak’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Chwytak’ reputation was strongly

W kwietniu 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Dusiciel” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. Podczas gdy mieli działać na meczu, Lewis i Wladek Zbyszko starali się współpracować. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. W

Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his

In early 1916, Jaskółka oknówka “Rolnik” Oparzenia, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns

Pod koniec lat 1910, promotorzy wrestlingu rezerwowali zapaśników na zapracowane lub wcześniej umówione mecze zapaśnicze. Occasionally, zwykle w wyniku podwójnego krzyża, fani zobaczyliby prawdziwy konkurs lub “shoot” mecz pomiędzy zapaśnikami. Jeden z takich meczów odbył się późno 1921 i powstał w wyniku sporu pomiędzy Texem Rickardem, przede wszystkim promotor boksu, i Jacka