Category: A professzionális birkózás korai története

Kedden, Március 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 és 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.

I’ve frequently found the biggest challenge in researching early professional wrestling is separating fact from fiction. Even when the wrestlers competed in legitimate matches, they often inflated outcomes, built up apocryphal folklore around their victories and made up fanciful tales to explain away their losses. Professional wrestling sprang from the carnivals and retained the promotional instincts of this art. St.

On December 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

Hétfőn, Február 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Kis Demon” Joe Acton Chicagóban, a Battery D-ben találkozott, Illinois. Ez lenne az első a férfiak közötti kiállítási összecsapások közül. Korán a nagyobb közép-nyugati városokban mutatták be ezeket a kiállításokat 1887. Mint a St. Pál meccs, amiről egy korábbi bejegyzésemben szóltam, Lewis and Acton agreed to

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. Ebben az epizódban, I discuss what Evan “A Strangler” Lewis’ hold would be called today. Fő tartalom – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. Viszont, several sources I checked described it as a rear naked choke. Lewis

-Ben 1880, William Muldoon would become World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the Greco-Roman style after defeating Thiebaud Bauer, the reigning champion. Before he would accomplish this feat, Muldoon had to pay his dues and prepare for the title tilt with Bauer. -Ben 1876, Muldoon caught the attention of former bare knuckle prizefighting world champion John Morrissey. Morrissey was a former

Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zbyszko legyőzte Wayne Munn az egyik utolsó hajtás,,en,nem rendeztek,,en,Pankráció meccsek az Egyesült Államokban,,en,Ez volt a hajtás, vagy jogos mérkőzés miatt Zbyszko kettős átlépte a,,en,birkózás promóciós és verte Munn,,en,Mosblechs,,de,Kerestem információkat saját Nagy bácsi Francis,,en,házasság nagynéném Rosemary Kalt,,en,Azt találtam, hogy egy váratlan családfa kincs,,en,egy képet a júliusi,,en,Louis Csillagok-Times dédszüleim és,,en,Mosblech gyerekek,,en,Még soha nem láttam egy képet,,en,Inspector Hornleigh,,en,Twentieth Century Fox Film Company kiadta az első a felügyelő Hornleigh filmek,,en,Inspector Hornleigh egy Scotland Yard felügyelő segíti az ő vizsgálatai őrmester Bingham,,en,Gordon Harker játszott Hornleigh,,en,míg Alastair Sim biztosítja a komikus őrmester Bingham,,en (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” wrestling promotion and beat Munn for the

I decided to start 2020 by using two examples from professional wrestling to discuss why you would change a historical account you wrote in the past. In writing history, you are limited by the available sources on the subject matter. Primary sources like diaries, official records and autobiographies are very valuable. Other sources like newspapers are good as well but