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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 para 1930.
O luns, Xuño 25, 1934, current World Champion Jim Browning defended his world title against Jim Londos. Browning dropped the title to Londos in a match to end the promotional war which led to the double-crosses of the early 1930s. 20,000 fans crowded into Madison Square Garden to see the match leading to a $40,000 gate. Jack Curley enjoyed a
Nos deportes de combate, un bo home grande adoita gañar a un bo home pequeno. Se es xenial, moitas veces pode compensar grandes discrepancias de tamaño. Edwin Bibby tiña só 5 anos’04” e pesou 160 libras pero derrotou a moitos loitadores máis grandes durante a súa carreira profesional. Bibby derrotou a moitos loitadores, incluído o xigantesco loitador alemán William Heygster. Edwin Bibby puido
Cando “The Russian Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, coñecido como “Cabeza” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt gañou o título mundial en grecorromana
O poderoso William Muldoon foi considerado invencible como grecorromano Wrestling Campión do Mundo. Only one man seriously challenged Muldoon during his dominant reign. The 165-pound Clarence Whistler consistently gave Muldoon his toughest challenges. Muldoon e Whistler reuniu o xoves, Novembro 1, 1883 en San Francisco, California in one of their several matches. William Muldoon was almost a head taller and weighed
Fred Beell developed a reputation in the early 20th Century as a powerful and dangerous wrestler. His reputation was not built by his 1903 campaign. Beell suffered as many high-profile defeats as victories. Beell started well in April 1903, when he defeated St. Paul AAU Wrestling Champion James McAuley. McAuley won the first fall in 22 actas. Beell won the
Joe Acton foi un dos mellores loitadores de Inglaterra durante o século 19. 151-pound Acton pasou por filas dos medios de Inglaterra antes de arar a través dos pesos pesados. Despois de bater o mellor a Inglaterra tiña que ofrecer, incluíndo Tom Canón, Acton decidiu probar as súas habilidades en Estados Unidos. Joe Acton resolto en Filadelfia na casa de Arthur Cámara dos Campións descanso durante os meses de verán de
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “Traballou” matches thrown in the mix. Por 1904 ou 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Porén, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
En outubro 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship but remained out of the spotlight until
En novembro 7, 1908, Charles Olson coñeceu “Americus” Gus Schonlein para o Campionato Mundial de Loita Peso Lixeiro. O partido resultou tan emocionante como os observadores sospeitaban que sería, pero acabou en polémica. Olson quedou 6’01” pero só pesaba 170 libras. Max Flaskamp naceu en Krefeld, Renania do Norte-Westfalia en 1879, he took the name Charles or Charley Olson