Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 kwa 1930.
Wrestling wa kitaalam alibadilika kuwa maonyesho ya riadha kutoka kwa mashindano halali kwa sababu mbili. Nimeandika sana juu ya sababu ya kwanza. Mashindano halali kati ya wrestlers wenye ujuzi mara nyingi yalikuwa marefu, mambo ya boring na hatua kidogo. Mashindano haya yalizima mashabiki na kuzuia mieleka ya kitaalam kulipuka kama mchezo wa watazamaji. Sijaandika mengi juu ya sababu ya pili. The
Siku ya Jumatatu, Machi 26, 1888, Joe Acton, waliobobea katika mieleka ya kukamata, alishindana na Profesa William Miller, mwanamieleka wa Australia, na mshindi wa tuzo ya gongo, katika mechi ya mieleka ya Greco-Roman ya mieleka miwili kati ya mitatu. Kambi zote za wanaume ziliamini kushindana kwa mtindo huu kulihakikisha pambano la haki kati yao. Wanaume walipigania $500.00 upande. 1,500 fans, umati mkubwa enzi hizo, akageuka
Kabla ya mieleka huko Kentucky mapema miaka ya 1910, mashabiki wa mieleka walimjua Ed “Strangler” Lewis kama Bob Fredrichs. Robert Friedrich alizaliwa huko Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Lewis alifanya mchezo wake wa kwanza wa mieleka wa kitaalam 1905, huku bado tu 14 umri wa miaka. Mapromota wa Kentucky walidhani Bob Fredrichs alikuwa wazi sana, kwa hivyo Lewis alichagua jina lake jipya kama heshima kwa mzaliwa mwenzake wa Wisconsin na asili
Karibu 70 umri wa miaka, Stanislaus Zbyszko alifanya filamu yake ya kwanza katika Night and the City (1950). Inatozwa kama Gregorious, mwanamieleka mstaafu na baba wa promota wa mieleka wa London, Zbyszko alionyesha ujuzi wake wa kupigana, hata katika umri wake mkubwa, katika eneo la saini ya filamu. Filamu inaanza na mwanamume anayemfukuza Harry Fabian, mwanahustler wa London anatafuta kila wakati
Mei 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins alimenyana na jitu Nouralah Hassan katika Jiji la New York. Mzaliwa wa Bulgaria wakati 1870, Hassan alisimama futi sita, inchi nane kwa urefu na uzani 331 paundi. Wakati Jenkins alikuwa na ustadi wa hali ya juu wa mieleka, mashabiki na wanahabari walitarajia ukubwa mkubwa wa Hassan kuwasilisha matatizo kwa Jenkins. Mapromota waliwaweka nafasi ya kupigana mieleka katika Madison Square Garden
Siku ya Ijumaa, Juni 29, 1883, wrestlers kumi na nne kulipwa $50 kuingia katika mashindano ya siku mbili kwa a $500 mkanda wa ubingwa na $500 tuzo. Richard K. Fox, mmiliki na mchapishaji wa Gazeti la Polisi, weka pesa za tuzo na ukanda. Fox aliunga mkono kwa dhati utangazaji wa ndondi za kitaalam na mieleka ya kitaalam. Wakati watu kumi na wanne walijaribu kuingia kwenye mashindano, Fox
Juu ya Agosti 4, 1939, Mort Henderson aliaga dunia huko Rochester, New York katika 60 umri wa miaka. Mashabiki wa mieleka huenda hawakukumbuka jina la Mort Henderson lakini kama ubinafsi wake, asili ya Masked Marvel, aliokoa toleo la kuanguka la 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Sam Rachmann promoted the tournament with the goal of
Mnamo Oktoba 26, 1897, Martin “Farmer” Burns defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod. Burns and McLeod were two of the top three or four catch-as-catch-can wrestlers in the United States at the time. 1,200 fans attended the match held at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy
George Tragos gained fame as the trainer of Lou Thesz, the dominant National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion of the 1950s and early 1960s. Tragos, a 1920 Olympian for his native Greece, possessed an impeccable resume in legitimate wrestling. Born March 14, 1901, in Messinia, Ugiriki, Tragos won national wrestling titles before representing Greece at the 1920 Olympics at only
At the end of 1932, 22-year-old Vila Milli sued her husband, professional wrestler Wladek Zbyszko, for divorce alleging physical cruelty and adultery. Milli charged the 41-year-old Zbyszko with physical cruelty for “hugging her too hard.” Justice Dunne of the Brooklyn Supreme Court heard the divorce case. He expressed doubt that Zbyszko abused his wife. Hata hivyo, he did not dismiss the