Category: Historia da loita libre profesional

Joe Stecher comezou 1915, un ano fatídico para a súa carreira, cunha vitoria sobre Adolph Ernst. Ernst loitou baixo o nome de Otto Carpenter para este partido pero era coñecido polos fanáticos da loita libre como Ad Santel.. Santel tiña unha merecida fama de vicioso “hooker”, un loitador hábil na submisión ten. Stecher era un nebrascano de 22 anos, quen fixo

En xuño 11, 1976, Joseph “Toots” Mondt died enroute to Christian Northeast Hospital in North St. Louis County. Mondt had moved to St. Louis, en 1969 to help take care of his wife Alda’s mother. After her mother died in 1971, the Mondts decided to stay in St. Louis, where Alda had been born and raised. Mondt was a legendary

Wayne “Gran” Munn é un ascenso meteórico na loita libre profesional. Debutando en 1924, Munn “won” o World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship de Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis no inicio 1925. A súa caída foi igual de rápida. Por 1926, Munn estaba xubilado. Un xogador de fútbol universitario de Nebraska, Munn foi recrutado para a loita libre profesional por Billy Sandow, líder de facto do Gold Dust Trio. O

Fred Beell era un forte, loitador profesional talentoso a principios do século XX. Beell deu a todos os mellores loitadores do día duros concursos, pero a súa falta de tamaño a miúdo dificultaba a súa habilidade con loitadores de clase mundial.. Aínda que poderosamente construído, Beell figuraba xenerosamente no 5’06”. No seu máis pesado, Beell nunca superou 170 libras. Mentres posúe un fisiculturismo

Cando William Muldoon se retirou da loita libre profesional 1889, pretendía para o seu protexido, Ernst Roeber, para converterse no novo campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado. Xa que Muldoon sempre defendeu o seu campionato ao estilo de loita grecorromana, a súa elección tiña sentido. Roeber era sen dúbida o mellor loitador grecorromano de América na época. Porén, os afeccionados á loita libre e xornalista, cubrindo o deporte,

In a recent post, I wrote about Charles Green’s unsuccessful attempt to defeat Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis in 1889. Un ano máis tarde, Green had greater success with another American wrestling legend, Martin “Agricultores” Queimaduras. The soon-to-be 29-year-old Burns was an excellent wrestler but wasn’t yet on the level of Evan Lewis. Porén, he would have to be in the top 10

The Gold Dust Trio’s dominance of professional wrestling in the early to mid-1920s bred lots of resentment with other wrestlers and promoters. This professional jealousy led to a famous double-cross in 1925. From this time on, the world title was disputed as Joe Stecher held one version, while Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis held the other version. Due to the real resentment

The following excerpt is from my new book Double Crossing the Gold Dust Trio, which will be out this summer. During the summer (of 1921), the Zbyszko brothers received word that their mother was gravely ill. Making quick preparation, they let Curley and the other promoters know they would be leaving as soon as they could arrange passage on a

Charles Green, a skilled English catch-as-catch-can wrestler, traveled to the United States in the late 1880s to wrestle the best American wrestlers. Green got his opportunity on July 21, 1889, when he wrestled American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch-Can Champion Evan Lewis. To prepare for this match, Green took a handicap bout with journeyman wrestler Bert Scheller in late June. Scheller was born

Whether it was a double-cross or an attempt to setup a legitimate contest, Paul Bowser’s attempt to secure a match between Joe Stecher and Joe Malcewicz nearly resulted in a riot on March 11, 1926. Events of the previous year actually set this debacle into motion. From the end of 1922, the Gold Dust Trio of Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis, seu