Category: היסטוריית היאבקות מקצועית

ביום שבת, ינואר 30, 1904, ג'ורג 'Hackenschmidt הגן אליפות ההיאבקות בסגנון יווני-הרומי עולמו נגד אחמד Medrali. “האריה הרוסית” היה צריך להביס “האיום הטורקי” כדי לשמור על האליפות שלו. יזמים שנבחרו Medrali הענק, שהיה 6’02” ו - 224 קילו, כדי להביס את Hackenschmidt לכאורה בלתי מנוצח. ג'ורג 'Hackenschmidt עמד רק 5’09” גבוה ושקל 209 קילו. Despite his smaller

On March 22, 1881, Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon met Collar-and-Elbow World Champion John McMahon at the Terrace Garden in New York City. Muldoon and McMahon met in a best-two-out-of-three-falls match. The first fall was conducted by Greco-Roman rules. The second fall would be contested using collar-and-elbow rules. בסתיו האחרון יוכרע באמצעות מה הניו יורק

ביום חמישי, נובמבר 22, 1923, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". 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. לואיס פוסט דיספץ'. 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 only wrestled in the United States for six months in the first half of 1898. In his first significant match, he was disqualified for a vicious foul. In his only other significant match, he gave Evan “<תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "976" = bbox_w "1948" = bbox_h "52" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the

ביום חמישי בלילה, נובמבר 25, 1909, אלוף העולם בהיאבקות פרנק Gotch פגש היאבקות פולנית אלוף סטניסלב Zbyszko להתאמה לנכים באפלו, ניו יורק. Gotch הסכים לוותר על התקף אם הוא לא יכול לזרוק Zbyszko פעמיים בשעה. הגודל של Zbyszko והכוח יצרו בעיות לGotch, ששקל 190 לירות לZbyszko של 260 קילו. אולם, Zbyszko

Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “אלכס” Åberg. 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. On May 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, מי

פרנק Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, איווה, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hack” 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