Category: Tidlig professionel brydningshistorie

Frank Gotch, den bondedreng fra Humboldt, Iowa, ville besejre George Hackenschmidt til World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i 1908. Denne sejr og hans efterfølgende nederlag “Hack” i 1911 omkamp cementeret Gotch plads som en af ​​de største wrestlere af hele tiden. Gotch var en meget talentfuld bryder, men han var ikke den ubesejrede vidunderbarn legende. Gotch

Den January 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko var en dygtig

Omaha politimester H.W. Dunn oprettede overskrifter i marts 28, 1915, da han udstedte en ordre, der forbød den annoncerede professionelle wrestling-kamp mellem Joe Stecher og Jess Westergaard. April 6, 1915 kamp var planlagt til Omaha Auditorium. Høvdingen udstedte faktisk ordren efter anmodning fra Superintendent for Police A.C. Kugle. Kugel udsendte en erklæring til

Den December 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis besejrede Joe Stecher for hans World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Men, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud

Evan “Strangler” Lewis, også kaldet Evan Lewis “Det Strangler”, var en professionel wrestler fra 1882 til 1899. Lewis var den første amerikanske Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” eller “hang hold”, som moderne MMA-fans kender som en guillotine-choke. Lewis fik sin professionelle debut ved at vinde en 64 mand turnering

Martin “Farmer” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Farmer” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 pounds. I 1891, Burns som Iowa sværvægt tog JC. Comstock, Michigan sværvægt. J.C. Comstock was

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy interviewede St.. Louis wrestling promotor John Contos. Murphy foreslog overfor Contos, at den dominerende wrestlers æra som William Muldoon var forbi. Murphy talte om den nylige kamp mellem “Verdensmester” Hardneck Phillips og spilkonkurrencen Webster O’Malley. Phillips forsvarede med succes sit mesterskab ved at kaste O’Malley efter 1 hour, 50

Paul Pons var den græsk-romerske Wrestling Champion Frankrig i 1890'erne. Han vandt en turnering på Folies-Bergères før vinde en turnering i Rusland i 1898. Disse sejre gjorde det muligt for ham at kræve verdensmesterskabet for græsk-romersk wrestling. Pons kapitaliseres på denne berygtet ved at åbne et træningscenter for at træne brydere og stærke mænd. Pons’ sejren var især bemærkelsesværdig på grund af

Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”