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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 za 1930.
On June 2, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament in New York City entered its second week of competition. Some of the tournaments big names were wrestling on this night. Alex Aberg, George Lurich and Wladek Zbyszko would all compete. It was Zbyszko who made the biggest impression. The first match involved two lesser talents, Pierre Le Colosse and Wilhelm Berner.
I’m writing this post to correct an earlier post I wrote about double crosses in professional wrestling. Sprva sem mislil, dvojni križi se je končalo po Stanislaus Zybszko dvojno prečkal Gold Dust Trio. Zbyszko, po odobritvi, da izgubijo na Munn, defeated him in what turned into a legitimate contest for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. In “Strangler” Lewis, who dropped the
On February 26. 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko beat Alex Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Boston, Massachusetts. Zbyszko came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for Frank Gotch’s World Catch-as-Catch Can Championship. Wrestling insiders considered Gotch’s title the World Championship. Zbyszko could not beat Gotch in 1910. Before they had a rematch, Frank Gotch retired in
Martin “Kmet” Burns je bil strokovni catch-as-catch lahko Wrestler kot tudi rokoborbe in telesne kulture trenerja. Kljub velikim uspehom kot poklicni rokoborec, celo nagrajeni ameriški Težji prvenstvo, he is more famous as a wrestling trainer. Martin “Kmet” Burns je rodil februar 15, 1861 Cedar County, Iowa. Both then and now, wrestling is in an Iowan’s blood.
Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, ki je bil 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Na žalost, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona
Sem napisal ta post zaradi pogovora sem označeni na Twitterju približno 1911 revanš med Frank Gotch in Georg Hackenschmidt za pokal svetovnega Težji Wrestling. Jim CORNETTE, who besides being one of the best managers in professional wrestling is also a noted pro wrestling historian, talked about the double cross in the second Gotch-Hack match
V borilne športe, dober velik človek ponavadi premaga dober mali človek. Če ste super, lahko pogosto za velike razlike velikosti. Edwin Bibby stood only 5’04” and weighed 160 funtov, vendar je premagal številne večje rokoborcev v svoji poklicni rokoborbo karieri. Bibby defeated many wrestlers including the gigantic German wrestler William Heygster. Edwin Bibby was able
Oktobra 25, 1915, Aleksander “Alex” Aberg won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Wladek Zbyszko, the brother of Aberg’s former foe. V 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko defeated Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Stanislaus Zbyszko returned to Europe. It is doubtful Wladek Zbyszko could make a claim to his brother’s championship. Promoter Sam Rachmann probably created this
Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. While this story may or may
When “Ruski Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, znan kot “Hack” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the world title in Greco-Roman