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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 کرنے کے لئے 1930.
Fred Beell wrestled professionally from 1900 کرنے کے لئے 1919. After developing a legendary reputation due to some of his victories over Martin “کسان” Burns, Dan McLeod and Frank Gotch, Beell retired as he neared 43 عمر کے سال. His post wrestling career would lead to his unexpected death at 57. Fred Beell overcame long odds to become a competent professional wrestler
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, عالمی چیمپئن پہلوان اور ویٹ میں 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch پانچ سال کے لئے عنوان منعقد کی اور تمام comers کو شکست دے دی. کی نسبتا چھوٹی عمر میں 35, Gotch ریٹائر کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے. اس کے آخری میچ کے لئے, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
جمعہ, مئی 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, سینٹ. لوئس, مسوری. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 منٹ. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. اس نے استعمال کیا
In late 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko ورلڈ ہیوی ویٹ کشتی چیمپیئن فرینک Gotch چیلنج کرنے کی امریکہ کا سفر. Gotch میٹنگ سے پہلے, Zbyszko کے ابتدائی حصے میں بہت سے مقامی پہلوانوں امریکہ کا دورہ کیا اور لڑائی 1910. Zbyszko سفر کرے گا 37,000 میل کے فاصلے پر. صبح ان کے دورے میں, Zbyszko ایک معذور میچ میں فرینک Gotch سے ملاقات. Zbyszko Gotch شکست دے دی, جو تھا
جمعرات, جنوری 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins defended his American Wrestling Championship against an up-and-coming wrestler from Iowa. After the first fall, the fans realized it was the toughest match of the c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins had defeated Gotch’s
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, نومبر 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
جنوری میں 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler کے” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
پیر کے روز, دسمبر 13, 1920, اور “Strangler کے” Lewis won the first of six World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships from Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. A year before this match, Stecher and Lewis met in a match lasting over three hours. Lewis made a mental error in