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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 إلى 1930.
يوم السبت, يناير 30, 1904, George Hackenschmidt defended his Greco-Roman World Wrestling Championship against Ahmed Medrali. “The Russian Lion” would have to defeat “The Terrible Turk” to retain his championship. Promoters selected the giant Medrali, who was 6’02” و 224 جنيه, to defeat the seemingly invincible Hackenschmidt. George Hackenschmidt stood only 5’09” tall and weighed 209 جنيه. Despite his smaller
على مارس 22, 1881, التقى اليوناني الروماني المصارعة العالمية للبطل وليام مولدون الياقة و-الكوع بطل العالم جون ماكماهون في شرفة حديقة في مدينة نيويورك. التقى مولدون ومكماهون في أفضل-يومين الخروج من ثلاثة يقع مباراة. وقد أجريت أول انخفاض بقواعد اليوناني الروماني. سوف تعترض على سقوط الثاني باستخدام قواعد طوق والكوع. سيتم تحديد الخريف الماضي عبر ما نيويورك
يوم الخميس, نوفمبر 22, 1923, الحادي و. استضاف مروج لويس جون كونتوس بطاقة مثيرة للجدل تعلوها مباراة بين جو ستيشر ودان كولوف, مصارع بلغاري صاعد. تمت تغطية البطاقة بواسطة John E. Wray, المحرر الرياضي لقناة St. لويس بوست ديسباتش. كانت البطاقة مثيرة للجدل لأنه تم الإعلان عن اثنين من أكبر نجوم المصارعة ولكن لم يتم الإعلان عنها
Broadcast companies were looking for content during the early days of television. Besides older movies and some broadcast company productions, sports were a source of programming for many television stations. The Dumont Television Network was one of the powerhouse networks in the beginning of the Golden Age of Television. One of their most popular programs was wrestling and the star
يوسف إسماعيل صارع في الولايات المتحدة لمدة ستة أشهر فقط في النصف الأول من 1898. في أول مباراة مهمة له, تم استبعاده لارتكابه خطأ فادحًا. في مباراته الوحيدة المهمة الأخرى, أعطى إيفان “خانق” لويس ضرب حياته. ومع ذلك، فإن جولته القصيرة في الولايات المتحدة جعلت منه أسطورة. دخل اسماعيل
On a Thursday night, نوفمبر 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, New York. Gotch agreed to forfeit the bout if he could not throw Zbyszko twice in an hour. Zbyszko’s size and strength created problems for Gotch, who weighed 190 pounds to Zbyszko’s 260 جنيه. لكن, Zbyszko
Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Aberg was the Russian Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion. Rachman believed Aberg could beat any wrestler. Rachman also wanted to lure Frank Gotch, the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, out of retirement to wrestle with Aberg. Gotch wrestled George Lurich in
In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. في مايو 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, الذي
فرانك جونش, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “هاك” in the 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch