Epizoda 6 – Zpracované shody názvů
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V této epizodě, Budu mluvit o dvojici odpracovaných titulových zápasů pro American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.
Hlavní obsah
Fred Beell byl silný, talented professional wrestler na přelomu 20. století. I když mohutně stavěný, Beell nestál víc než 5’05” and weighed 168 liber. Ještě, he improbably defeated Frank Gotch for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship on December 1, 1906.
Fred Beell posing for the camera in the early Twentieth Century from the Public Domain
Gotch won the first fall without a problem but the second fall proved controversial. Aby začal druhý pád, Beell zaútočil a několikrát Gotche praštil. Zdálo se, že Gotch je unavený, pro dobře kondičního šampiona nezvyklá situace. Beell znovu zvedl Gotche, ale klopýtl. Oba muži spadli z podložky na tvrdou podlahu.
Gotch těžce udeřil hlavou o podlahu. Beell was not seriously affected. Rychle obrátil Gotche ke druhému pádu. Zápasník lehké těžké váhy Charley Olsen, který sloužil jako rozhodčí tohoto zápasu, poklepal Beellovi na záda, čímž naznačil, že Beell spadl podruhé.
Beell stood to his feet, but Gotch remained prone on the mat. Two police officers, zajištění zabezpečení akce, helped carry the half-conscious champion back to his dressing room for the second intermission.
V Gotchově autobiografii, he said he struck his head on a post. Však, this match does not appear to have taken place in a ring. It is more likely he hit his head on the floor although if there were stanchions around the mat, mohl jednoho z nich udeřit.
The police officers carried Gotch back to the ring, where Beell pinned him in 50 seconds for the third fall and championship. I suspected Gotch and Beell worked this match because of the fanciful finish and a rematch had already been scheduled for Kansas City, Missouri on December 18, 1906.
8,000 fans crowded into the Kansas City Convention Hall to see Gotch take the title back in two straight falls. Gotch and Beell liked worked the matches for the large payday in Kansas City and to make Gotch look beatable. Fans started to see Gotch as invincible, which made it harder to convince fans to pay to see Gotch crush his opponents.
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