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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tkrvui/Episode_1b3iy0.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | Prenos It Was Almost Real: Podcast o zgodovini profesionalne rokoborbe,
Ko je Wladek Zbyszko odpotoval iz ZDA v Brazilijo na donosno turnejo
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Aprila 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Profesionalna rokoborba se je iz zakonitih tekmovanj razvila v atletsko razstavo iz dveh razlogov. I have written extensively about the first reason. Legitimate contests between equally skilled wrestlers were often long, boring affairs with little action. These contests turned off fans and prevented professional wrestling exploding as a spectator sport. I have not written as much about the second reason. The
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7s9rgj/Episode_6b9zva.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | DownloadIn this episode, I will be talking about a pair of worked title matches for the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Main Content Fred Beell was a strong, nadarjen profesionalni rokoborec na prelomu 20. stoletja. Čeprav močno grajen, Beell stood no more than 5’05” and weighed 168 funtov. Še, he improbably defeated
Ponedeljek, Marec 26, 1888, Joe Acton, who specialized in catch wrestling, wrestled Professor William Miller, an Australian wrestler, and bare-knuckle prizefighter, in a two-out-of-three-falls Greco-Roman wrestling match. Both men’s camps believed wrestling the match in this style ensured the fairest contest between them. The men wrestled for $500.00 a side. 1,500 fans, a large crowd for the era, turned
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/q2pnhj/Episode_58uqay.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | DownloadIn this episode, I will be talking about some of the wild claims fans, wrestlers and wrestling historians make about professional wrestling matches. Update I recently discovered that before Mildred Burke was even born, wrestling fans and reporters recognized Cora Livingston as the first women’s wrestling champion. Cora learned to wrestle in the carnivals.
Prior to wrestling in Kentucky in the early 1910s, wrestling fans knew Ed “Strangler” Lewis as Bob Fredrichs. Born Robert Friedrich in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Lewis made his professional wrestling debut in 1905, while still only 14 stara leta. Kentucky promoters thought Bob Fredrichs too plain, so Lewis chose his new name as an homage to fellow Wisconsin native and original
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3jeixi/Episode_48a46i.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | DownloadEpisode Preview In this episode, I will be talking about the biggest double-cross in pro wrestling history. Introduction or Update After two weeks of COVID, my breathing finally returned to normal, so it is back to researching the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. This project has proven to be as frustrating as I expected it
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/79nsr9/Episode_36u5sw.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | DownloadIn this episode, I will be talking about one of the most vicious hookers in the history of professional wrestling. I will focus on three incidents which illustrate why other wrestlers feared Evan “The Strangler” Lewis. Update The update will be on the light side because I contracted COVID for the second time this
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/sfejv3/Episode_275lyj.mp3Podcast: Predvajaj v novem oknu | DownloadIn this episode, Govoril bom o največji blagajniški atrakciji v zgodovini rokoborbe. Ko se je vrnil na delovni dopust v domovino Grčijo, je napolnil 100,000 stadioni. Bil je prvi rokoborec, ki je risal 30,000 navijačev od druge tekme Frank Gotch-George Hackenschmidt v 1911. Posodobi Zakaj I
At nearly 70 let, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking
Maja 7, 1901, Tom Jenkins se je v New Yorku boril z velikanko Nouralah Hassan. Born in Bulgaria during 1870, Hassan stood six feet, eight inches tall and weighed 331 funtov. While Jenkins possessed superior wrestling skill, fans and reporters expected Hassan’s immense size to present problems for Jenkins. Promoters booked the men to wrestle at Madison Square Garden in