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When Billy Sandow and Ed Lewis decided Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign had run out of promotional steam, they decided to “win” back the title in March 1922. 생. Louis promoter John Contos was able to secure the big rematch, which would occur at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, 12월 14, 1922. By this time, American professional wrestling outside of

토요일에, 일월 30, 1904, 조지 Hackenschmidt 아메드 Medrali에 대한 그의 그리스 - 로마 세계 레슬링 선수권을 방어. “러시아 사자” 패배 할 것 “끔찍한 투르크” 자신의 챔피언을 유지하려면. 발기인은 거대한 Medrali를 선택, 누가 6 살’02” 과 224 파운드, 겉으로는 무적 Hackenschmidt을 패배. 조지 Hackenschmidt 만 5 섰다’09” 키가 크고 무게 209 파운드. Despite his smaller

월에 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. The last fall would be decided via what The New York

On Thursday, 11월 22, 1923, 생. 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. 루이스 포스트 - 디스패치. The card was controversial because two of the biggest stars in wrestling were advertised but didn’t

방송 회사는 텔레비전의 초기에 콘텐츠를 찾고 있었다. 구작과 일부 방송 회사 제작 게다가, 스포츠는 많은 TV 방송국 프로그래밍의 원천이었다. 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 “<스팬 bbox_x = "949"bbox_y = "1780"bbox_w = "52"bbox_h = "19"fsize = "13"fweight = "3"빨간색 = "255"녹색 = "255"블루 = "255"알파 = "” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the

On a Thursday night, 11월 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, 뉴욕. 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 파운드. 그러나, Zbyszko

Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “알렉스” 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, 그들은

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. 월에 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, 누구