Category: Storia del wrestling professionistico iniziale

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. In maggio 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, che

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 “Hack” in the 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

Gennaio 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 era un abile

Il capo della polizia di Omaha, H.W. Dunn ha fatto notizia a marzo 28, 1915, quando ha emesso un'ordinanza che vietava l'incontro di wrestling professionistico pubblicizzato tra Joe Stecher e Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 La partita era prevista per l'Auditorium di Omaha. Il capo in realtà ha emesso l'ordine per volere del sovrintendente di polizia A.C. Kugel. Kugel ha rilasciato una dichiarazione a

Dicembre 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis ha sconfitto Joe Stecher per il suo campionato mondiale di wrestling dei pesi massimi. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Tuttavia, 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, chiamato anche Evan Lewis “la Strangler”, era un wrestler professionista di 1882 a 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” o “hang hold”, che i moderni fan delle MMA conoscono come strozzatore a ghigliottina. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 torneo maschile

Balestruccio “Agricoltore” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Agricoltore” 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 sterline. In 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

In November 1923, St. Il giornalista del Louis Star-Times Billy Murphy ha intervistato St. Il promotore del wrestling di Louis, John Contos. Murphy propose a Contos che l'era dei lottatori dominanti come William Muldoon fosse finita. Murphy ha parlato della recente partita tra “Campione del mondo” Hardneck Phillips e il contendente al gioco Webster O'Malley. Phillips ha difeso con successo il suo campionato lanciando O'Malley dopo 1 hour, 50

Paolo Pons è stato il campione di wrestling greco-romana di Francia nel 1890. Ha vinto un torneo al Folies-Bergeres, prima di vincere un torneo in Russia nel 1898. Queste vittorie gli hanno permesso di rivendicare il campionato mondiale di lotta greco-romana. Pons capitalizzato su questa notorietà aprendo una palestra di lottatori treni e uomini forti. Pons’ la vittoria è stata particolarmente notevole a causa di

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”