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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 til 1930.
Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragisk, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match
One of the legendary tales about Joe Stecher concerns a legitimate contest he had with one of Martin “Farmer” Burns wrestlers, when Stecher was barely out of high school. Burns heard about Stecher’s growing reputation and decided to test him with one of his wrestlers. For år, I thought Stecher defeated Yusif Mahmout but he actually wrestled Yussif Hussane. Den
Edwin Bibby and Duncan C. Ross established the first recognized professional wrestling championship in the United States on January 19, 1881. The men wrestled catch-as-catch-can style for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon was the World Heavyweight Champion based on his defeat of Thiebaud Bauer in 1880. Andre Christol brought the World Title to the United States in the
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests
Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought
I 1899, Martin “Farmer” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in
Hvem er den største legitime profesjonelle bryteren til å bryte i USA? How do you determine it when wrestlers “worked” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 and 1915
William Hayes Shaw, som kjempet som Pat O’Shocker gjennom det meste av sin brytekarriere, fant seg i søkelyset i 1933. O’Shocker lette ikke etter denne typen berømmelse skjønt. Aviser hadde en historie om hvordan brytingspromotører prøvde å bruke O’Shocker i et planlagt dobbeltkryss. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
I 1933, about 10 år inn i sin brytekarriere, Jim Browning ville vinne verdenstittelen. Starter sin karriere i Kansas og hjemstaten Missouri, Browning måtte forlate disse kjente grunnene, hvis han hadde til hensikt å nå den høyeste toppen i profesjonell bryting. Fordi verdensmestere måtte turnere nasjonalt, og ofte internasjonalt, verdenstittelen ble
Jeg har tidligere skrevet at Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce av Marcus Griffin er en problematisk kilde. Mens Griffin har innsidekunnskap på grunn av sin tid på reklamekontoret i Buffalo på 1930-tallet, han skrev boken med det formål å hevne seg mot promotørene som sparket ham. Boken inneholder faktainformasjon blandet med interessant