The Original Trust Buster

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During the early 1920s, Tex Rickard declared war on his former boxing promotional partner, Džeks Kērlijs. Curley promoted professional wrestling in New York City. He also organized promoters in large cities such as Boston and St. Louis into a wrestling trust. The trust controlled the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. The trust froze out any wrestler, who refused to go along

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Farmer Burns Discovers Frank Gotch

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Uz 1897, Dan McLeod beat Martin “Farmer” Burns for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. After the defeat, Burns wrestled part-time as he transitioned into his primary role of wrestling trainer. Over the next 30 gadiem, Burns trained most of the legitimate catch wrestlers in the United States. Burns began touring in 1899, where he would both wrestle an opponent in

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Stanislaus Zbyszko Loses Match

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This week’s post is a confession of sorts. Jau gadiem, I have written that Frank Gotch was the only wrestler to defeat Stanislaus Zbyszko during his initial tour of America between 1909 and 1914. I recently read Wrestling in the Garden, Tilpums 1: 1875 līdz 1939; The Battle for New York – Works, Shootes and Double Crosses (filiāli saite) līdz

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Vecākā pastāvošā cīņas filma

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Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Traģiski, reklamētāji filmēja 1910. un 20. gadu lielākās spēles, tostarp otro Frenka Goča un Georga Hakenšmita spēli, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Veins “Lielais” Munns, Stehers vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match

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Džo Stehers nokārto eksāmenu

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One of the legendary tales about Joe Stecher concerns a legitimate contest he had with one of Martin “Lauksaimnieks” Burns wrestlers, when Stecher was barely out of high school. Burns heard about Stecher’s growing reputation and decided to test him with one of his wrestlers. Jau gadiem, I thought Stecher defeated Yusif Mahmout but he actually wrestled Yussif Hussane. The

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Bibija Beats Ross

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Edwin Bibby and Duncan C. Ross established the first recognized professional wrestling championship in the United States on January 19, 1881. The men wrestled catch-as-catch-can style for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon was the World Heavyweight Champion based on his defeat of Thiebaud Bauer in 1880. Andre Christol brought the World Title to the United States in the

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Lūiss un Stehers strādā neizšķirti

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In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Vilka ķetna. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests

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Dusek dubultkrusti Mondt

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Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought

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“Lauksaimnieks” Burns Puts in a Full Night

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Uz 1899, Čurkste “Lauksaimnieks” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in

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Desmit uzticamākie profesionāli cīkstoņi

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Kurš ir lielākais likumīgais profesionālais cīkstonis, kurš cīnījies Amerikas Savienotajās Valstīs? How do you determine it when wrestlers “worked” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 and 1915

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