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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 į 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
Kalėdų naktį 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko met Giovanni Raicievich in a much-anticipated heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, who was campaigning for a rematch with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, agreed to throw Raicevich 3 times in 90 minutes or be declared the loser. As the men entered the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, Zbyszko was clearly the
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 svarų. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Tačiau, 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
On 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
Tikrai, 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
Kregždė “Ūkininkas” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Tačiau, 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 “Žmogžudys” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. Į 1893, Burns was still
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. Jis pradėjo imtynių kai pro žaidimas vis dar esama konkurencija. Jis ir toliau sėkmingai po žaidimas pasikeitė iš dalies apdirbtas (prearranged) atitikmuo. Iš tikrųjų, he participated in a shoot contest, kai jis teisėtai nugalėjo Big Wayne munn už perėmėjui 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
Ed “Strangler” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. Į 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Alex Åberg nugalėjo daugelio žymių priešus į didžiausią metų savo futbolininko karjerą imtynių. Į 1915, Åberg varžėsi tiek pavasarį ir rudenį versijų Niujorkas Tarptautinės imtynių turnyras. Konkuruoti tik savo pageidaujamą stilių graikų-romėnų imtynių, Åberg nugalėjo Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko ir Edas “Strangler” Lewisas kartu su Journeyman imtynininkų skaičius.