Category: Historia wrestlingu zawodowego

W sobotę, Styczeń 30, 1904, Georg Hackenschmidt obronił świata grecko-rzymskiego Wrestling Championship przeciwko Ahmed Medrali. “Rosyjski Lion” musiałby pokonać “Groźny Turk” zachować swoje mistrzostwo. Promotorzy wybrane gigant Medrali, który był 6’02” i 224 funtów, do pokonania pozornie niezwyciężoną Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt stał tylko 5’09” wysokości i ważył 209 funtów. Despite his smaller

Marzec 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

W czwartek, Listopad 22, 1923, St. Promotor Louisa, John Contos, był gospodarzem kontrowersyjnej gali, której zwieńczeniem był mecz pomiędzy Joe Stecherem i Danem Kolovem, wschodzący bułgarski zapaśnik. Karta została pokryta przez Johna 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 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 “Dusiciel” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the

W czwartek w nocy, Listopad 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch spotkał polski Wrestling Champion Stanisława Zbyszka na mecz z handicapem w Buffalo, Nowy Jork. Gotch zgodził się zrzec walkę, jeśli nie mógł rzucić Zbyszko razy w ciągu godziny. Wielkość i siła Zbyszka stworzył problemy dla Gotch, który ważył 190 funtów do Zbyszka 260 funtów. Jednak, 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 “pracy”. 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. May 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, kto

Frank Gotch, Chłopiec gospodarstwa z Humboldt, Iowa, by pokonać George Hackenschmidt dla World Heavyweight Championship Wrestling w 1908. Zwycięstwo i porażka z jego późniejsze “Siekać” w 1911 rewanż ugruntował miejsce Gotch jako jednego z największych wrestlerów wszechczasów. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch