Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 1930.
Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 from hated rival
On Christmas Night 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko traf Giovanni Raicievich in einem mit Spannung erwarteten Schwergewichts-Ringkampf. Zbyszko, die mit World Heavyweight Wrestling-Champion Frank Gotch für einen Rückkampf warb, vereinbart Raicevich zu werfen 3 mal in 90 Minuten oder Verlierer erklärt werden. Wie kamen die Männer der berühmten Madison Square Garden in New York City, Zbyszko war eindeutig die
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 Pfund. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Jedoch, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, who traveled to America to take on Frank Gotch after he defeated
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. He finally secured
Am January 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, a few American wrestlers had even claimed to be Nogert before
Tatsächlich, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. Rachman’s tournament was to start Wednesday
Martin “Bauer” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Jedoch, Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “Der Würger” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. In 1893, Burns was still
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. Er begann Wrestling, wenn die Pro Spiel war immer noch ein tatsächlicher Wettbewerb. Er fuhr fort, erfolgreich zu sein, nachdem das Spiel verändert, um bearbeitet (prearranged) Streichhölzer. Tatsächlich, he participated in a shoot contest, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
Und “Würger” Lewis ist einer der beiden besten amerikanischen Wrestler aller Zeiten. Während Lewis ein legitimer Submission Wrestler war, wer könnte jeden in einem Wrestling-Wettbewerb schlagen, Er arbeitete fast ausschließlich in vereinbarten Ausstellungsspielen. In 1929, Er nahm an einem Match mit einem professionellen Fußballspieler teil, der zum Wrestler wurde, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg war auf der Providence Steam Roller,
Alex Aberg besiegte im größten Jahr seiner professionellen Wrestling-Karriere viele namhafte Gegner. In 1915, Aberg nahm sowohl an der Frühjahrs- als auch an der Herbstversion des New York International Wrestling Tournament teil. Er tritt ausschließlich in seinem bevorzugten Stil des griechisch-römischen Ringens an, Aberg besiegte Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko und Ed “Würger” Lewis zusammen mit einer Reihe von Ringergesellen.