Category: पेशेवर कुश्ती इतिहास

शनिवार को, जनवरी 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” और 224 पाउंड, to defeat the seemingly invincible Hackenschmidt. George Hackenschmidt stood only 5’09” tall and weighed 209 पाउंड. Despite his smaller

मार्च पर 22, 1881, ग्रीको-रोमन विश्व कुश्ती चैंपियन विलियम मल्डून न्यूयॉर्क शहर में टैरेस गार्डन में कॉलर-और-कोहनी विश्व चैंपियन जॉन मैकमोहन से मुलाकात की. मल्डून और मैकमोहन एक में मुलाकात मैच सर्वश्रेष्ठ में से दो के बाहर के तीन-गिरता. पहली बार गिरावट ग्रीको रोमन नियमों द्वारा आयोजित किया गया. दूसरा गिरावट कॉलर-और-कोहनी नियमों का उपयोग कर चुनाव लड़ा किया जाएगा. The last fall would be decided via what The New York

गुरुवार को, नवंबर 22, 1923, सेंट. 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. लुई पोस्ट डिस्पैच. 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

युसूफ इस्माइल ने युनाइटेड स्टेट्स में केवल छह महीने के लिए पहली छमाही में कुश्ती लड़ी 1898. अपने पहले महत्वपूर्ण मैच में, वह एक शातिर बेईमानी के लिए अयोग्य घोषित किया गया था. अपने एकमात्र अन्य महत्वपूर्ण मैच में, उसने इवानो को दिया “स्ट्रेंजलर” लुईस अपने जीवन की धड़कन. फिर भी उनके संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका के छोटे दौरे ने उन्हें एक किंवदंती बना दिया. इस्माइल ने प्रवेश किया

On a Thursday night, नवंबर 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, न्यूयॉर्क. 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 पाउंड. तथापि, Zbyszko

Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “एलेक्स” 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. मई में 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, कौन

फ्रैंक Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, आयोवा, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “किराये का” 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