Category: Raná história profesionálneho wrestlingu

On Tuesday, Marec 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 a 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.

Decembra 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

V pondelok, Február 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Malý Demon” Joe Acton met at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. It would be the first of several exhibition bouts between the men. They performed these exhibitions in the larger Midwestern cities in early 1887. Like the St. Paul match I covered in an earlier post, Lewis and Acton agreed to

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. V tejto epizóde, I discuss what Evan “Strangler” Lewis’ hold would be called today. Hlavný obsah – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. Však, several sources I checked described it as a rear naked choke. Lewis

V 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. V 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 defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (nie predstavený,,en,profesionálny wrestling zápasy v Spojených štátoch,,en,Jednalo sa o natáčaní alebo legitímne zápas, pretože Zbyszko double prekročil,,en,propagácie wrestling a poraziť Munn,,en,Hľadal som informácie o mojej prastrýko Francis,,en,sobáš s mojím prateta Rosemary Kalt,,en,To, čo som zistil, bol neočakávaný genealógia poklad,,en,obraz v júli,,en,Louis Star-Times z mojich skvelých starých rodičov a,,en,Mosblech deti,,en,Nikdy som nevidel obraz,,en,Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company vydala prvý z filmov Inšpektor Hornleigh,,en,Inšpektor Hornleigh je Scotland Yard inšpektor pri plnení jej vyšetrovaniach seržantom Bingham,,en,Gordon Harker hral Hornleigh,,en,zatiaľ čo Alastair Sim poskytuje komickú scénu ako seržant Bingham,,en,Inšpektor Hornleigh začína objavom zavraždených,,en,Jenks slúžil St,,en) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” propagácia wrestlingu a porazte Munna

Rozhodol som sa začať 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