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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 کرنے کے لئے 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 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 پاؤنڈ. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. تاہم, 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
جنوری 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, اس سے پہلے چند امریکی پہلوانوں نے نوگرٹ ہونے کا دعویٰ بھی کیا تھا۔
اصل میں, 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
مارٹن “کسان” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. تاہم, جل جانے سے ان کے اپنے حق میں ایک عظیم پہلوان تھا. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “Strangler کے” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. میں 1893, برنس اب بھی تھا
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. نواز کھیل اب بھی ایک حقیقی مقابلہ تھا جب وہ کشتی کا آغاز ہوا. کھیل کام کیا کرنے کے لئے تبدیل کرنے کے بعد انہوں نے کہا کہ کامیاب ہونے کے لئے جاری (prearranged) میچوں. اصل میں, he participated in a shoot contest, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
اور “Strangler کے” 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. میں 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Alex Aberg defeated many notable foes in the greatest year of his professional wrestling career. میں 1915, Aberg competed in both the Spring and Fall versions of the New York International Wrestling Tournament. Competing exclusively in his preferred style of Greco-Roman wrestling, Aberg defeated Dr. بنجمن رولر, Wladek Zbyszko and Ed “Strangler کے” Lewis along with a number of journeyman wrestlers.