Category: Historia profesionale e mundjes

Të shtunën, Janar 30, 1904, George Hackenschmidt defended his Greco-Roman World Wrestling Championship against Ahmed Medrali. “Lion ruse” would have to defeat “The Terrible Turk” to retain his championship. Promoters selected the giant Medrali, who was 6’02” dhe 224 £, to defeat the seemingly invincible Hackenschmidt. George Hackenschmidt stood only 5’09” tall and weighed 209 £. Despite his smaller

Në mars 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. Vjeshta e fundit do të vendosej përmes asaj që The New York

Të enjten, Nëntor 22, 1923, St. Promotori i Louis John Contos priti një kartolinë të diskutueshme të kryesuar nga një ndeshje midis Joe Stecher dhe Dan Kolov, një mundës i ri bullgar. Karta u mbulua nga John E. Wray, Redaktori Sportiv i St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Karta ishte e diskutueshme sepse dy nga yjet më të mëdhenj në mundje u reklamuan, por nuk e bënë

Kompanitë e transmetuara janë në kërkim për përmbajtjen gjatë ditëve të para të televizionit. Përveç filmave të vjetër dhe disa prodhime të kompanisë transmetimit, sportive ishin një burim i programimit për shumë stacione televizive. 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

Jusuf Ismail luftoi në Shtetet e Bashkuara vetëm për gjashtë muaj në gjysmën e parë të vitit 1898. Në ndeshjen e tij të parë të rëndësishme, ai u skualifikua për një faull të egër. Në ndeshjen e tij të vetme të rëndësishme, ai i dha Evanit “Strangler” Lewis rrahja e jetës së tij. Megjithatë turneu i tij i shkurtër në Shtetet e Bashkuara e bëri atë një legjendë. Ismaili hyri në

On a Thursday night, Nëntor 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, Nju Jork. 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 £. Megjithatë, 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. Në maj 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, që

Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Kollë e thatë” në 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