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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 para 1930.
O sábado, Xaneiro 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” e 224 libras, to defeat the seemingly invincible Hackenschmidt. George Hackenschmidt stood only 5’09” altura e pesaba 209 libras. Despite his smaller
En marzo 22, 1881, Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon coñeceu Collar-and-Elbow Campión do Mundo John McMahon no Xardín Terraza, en Nova York. Muldoon e McMahon se atoparon nun best-dous-out-of-three-cae xogo. A primeira caída foi conducida por regras greco-romanos. A segunda caída sería contestada usando regras de colo-e-cóbado. The last fall would be decided via what The New York
O xoves, Novembro 22, 1923, St. Louis promoter John Contos hosted a controversial card topped by a match between Joe Stecher and Dan Kolov, an up-and-coming Bulgarian wrestler. The card was covered by John E. Wray, the Sports Editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The card was controversial because two of the biggest stars in wrestling were advertised but didn’t
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
Yusuf Ismail só loitou nos Estados Unidos durante seis meses na primeira metade de 1898. No seu primeiro partido significativo, foi descualificado por unha falta cruel. No seu único outro partido significativo, deulle a Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis a malleira da súa vida. Con todo, a súa pequena xira polos Estados Unidos converteuno nunha lenda. Ismail entered the
On a Thursday night, Novembro 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 libras. Porén, 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. En maio 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, que
Frank Gotch, o neno de Facenda de Humboldt, Iowa, derrotaría George Hackenschmidt ao Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight en 1908. Esta vitoria e súa derrota posterior de “Cabeza” no 1911 desquite cimentou o lugar de Gotch como un dos maiores loitadores de todos os tempos. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch