Category: Professionaalse maadluse ajalugu

On jaanuar 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 was a skilled

Omaha Chief of Police H.W. Dunn created headlines on March 28, 1915, when he issued an order banning the advertised professional wrestling match between Joe Stecher and Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 match was scheduled for the Omaha Auditorium. The chief actually issued the order at the behest of Superintendent of Police A.C. Kugel. Kugel issued a statement to

On detsember 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis defeated Joe Stecher for his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Siiski, 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, nimetatakse ka Evan Lewis “kuristaja”, oli professionaalne maadleja 1882 kuni 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” või “hang hold”, mida tänapäevased MMA-fännid tunnevad giljotiini õhuklappina. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 meeste turniir

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 naela. Sisse 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Timesi reporter Billy Murphy intervjueeris St. Louisi maadluse edendaja John Contos. Murphy tegi Contosele ettepaneku, et domineerivate maadlejate, nagu William Muldoon, ajastu on läbi. Murphy rääkis hiljutisest mängust “Maailmameister” Hardneck Phillips ja mängukandidaat Webster O’Malley. Phillips kaitses edukalt oma meistritiitlit, visates O’Malley järel 1 hour, 50

Paul Pons oli kreeka-rooma maadluses Prantsusmaa 1890. Ta võitis turniiri Folies-Bergeres enne võitnud turniiri Venemaal 1898. Need võidud võimaldasid tal võita kreeka-rooma maadluse maailmameistrivõistlused. Pons on seda ära tuntuse avades jõusaal rong maadlejate ja tugevad mehed. Pons’ võit oli eriti tähelepanuväärne, sest

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 “tulistada matši”

Teisipäeval, Märts 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller täidetud Stanislaus Zbyszko in õigustatud maadlus mängu. Professionaalne maadlus oleks üleminek õigustatud võistlus lavastatud näituse vahel 1910 ja 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.