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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 para 1930.
O venres, Maio 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 actas. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
En agosto 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions released Killer Dill (1947), a crime film that professional wrestler Mike Mazurki plays “Little Joe”, a henchman playing both sides of a gang feud. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny “Killer” Dill, a lingerie designer and salesperson, who people mistake for a gangster. After accidentally involving himself in a gang war, seu
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. El usou
In late 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko traveled to the United States to challenge World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Prior to meeting Gotch, Zbyszko toured the United States and battled many local wrestlers throughout the early part of 1910. Zbyszko would travel 37,000 miles. Early in his tour, Zbyszko met Frank Gotch in a handicap match. Zbyszko defeated Gotch, que era
O sábado, Novembro 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 actas. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem posuído
O xoves, Xaneiro 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins defendeu o seu American Wrestling Championship contra un loitador prometedor de Iowa. After the first fall, a afección decatouse de que era o partido máis duro do c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins derrotara a Gotch
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Novembro 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
Henry Moses Dufur ocupou o campión mundial de loita de colar e cóbado de peso pesado durante a década de 1870.. Por 1855, Dufur retirouse da loita profesional para exercer a súa profesión a tempo completo de xastre de roupa. Mesmo durante a súa carreira de loita libre, Dufur traballaba de xastre. Dufur díxolle ao correspondente de The Boston Globe que naceu en Richford, Vermont en xuño 5, 1943. Esta data de
En xaneiro de 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so Santel did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
Paul Pons foi o campión de wrestling greco-romano de Francia na década de 1890. El venceu un torneo no Folies Bergere, antes de gañar un torneo en Rusia 1898. Estas vitorias permitiulle acadar o Campionato Mundial de Loita Grecorromana. Pons capitalizou esta notoriedade a través da apertura dunha academia para loitadores de tren e homes fortes. Pons’ a vitoria foi especialmente notable por mor de