삽화 5: 와일드한 주장

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이 에피소드에서, 나는 일부 거친 주장 팬들에 대해 이야기 할 것입니다, 레슬링 선수와 레슬링 역사가들이 프로레슬링 경기에 대해 이야기합니다..

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I recently discovered that before Mildred Burke was even born, 레슬링 팬과 기자들은 코라 리빙스턴을 최초의 여성 레슬링 챔피언으로 인정했습니다.. 코라는 카니발에서 레슬링을 배웠습니다.. A pro from 1906 에 1925, she married Paul Bowser in 1913, when both were professional wrestlers. After Paul Bowser established himself as the promoter for the city of Boston, 매사추세츠 주, Cora retired to assist him with the promotion.

I will be writing about Cora in the future. I am sure she will be the focus of a future podcast.

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초기에 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko realized that Frank Gotch would not wrestle him again. Before he left for Poland and joined the Polish Army as a lieutenant, Zbyszko wrestled fellow Greco-Roman wrestler Alex Aberg for the World Heavyweight Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship.

The match drew 5,000 fans to the Boston, Massachusettes Mechanical Building. 5,000 fans was a great crowd in this era.

I recount the match, which Zbyszko won two-out-of-three falls. I originally wrote about his match in 1915.

When I wrote about this match on my blog around 2015, a reader left a comment stating that promoters paid Aberg $10,000 to drop the match to Zbyszko. I discuss why this claim does not make sense from a business or financial perspective.

Financially, if we use the high-ticket price of $2.00 용 5,000 fans, Touhey paid his entire gate of $10,000 to Aberg to lose the match. Touhey did not draw a $10,000 gate for this match.

Gambling is the other significant source of income during this era. A specialty wrestling match with an unknown wrestler does not draw big bets.

From a business perspective, you would pay the established wrestler, who is leaving America to return to Poland, to lose to the newcomer with ambitions to replace Frank Gotch as the recognized World Heavyweight Champion. Aberg would not drop his first big match in the country, if he wanted fans to recognize him as Frank Gotch’s replacement.

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