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Cando Wladek Zbyszko viaxou dos Estados Unidos a Brasil para unha lucrativa xira
Quen é o maior loitador profesional lexítimo para loitar nos Estados Unidos? Como
En abril 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Edwin Bibby e Duncan C. Ross estableceu o primeiro campionato de loita profesional recoñecido nos Estados Unidos en xaneiro 19, 1881. Os homes loitaron ao estilo catch-as-catch-can para o American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. William Muldoon foi o campión mundial de peso pesado baseado na súa derrota ante Thiebaud Bauer en 1880. Andre Christol levou o título mundial aos Estados Unidos no
In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis. 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
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
En novembro 19, 1935, professional wrestler Ray Steele met professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky in a mixed wresting versus boxing bout. The Missouri State Athletic Commission created special rules for the match. The commissioners ruled the bout would consist of three-minute rounds like a boxing match. The commissioners allowed Levinsky to punch even if he was on the mat. Steele could
En 1899, Martin “Agricultores” 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
William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
En 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was
Xa escribín no pasado que Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce de Marcus Griffin é unha fonte problemática. Aínda que Griffin ten coñecementos privilexiados debido ao seu tempo na oficina de promoción de Buffalo na década de 1930, escribiu o libro co propósito de vingarse contra os promotores que o despediron. O libro contén información factual mesturada con interesante
James Hiram McLaughlin ten a distinción de ser o primeiro loitador profesional estadounidense. Mentres a xente loitaba profesionalmente antes de McLaughlin, foi o primeiro en gañarse a vida profesional da loita libre. McLaughlin comezou a loitar profesionalmente 1860 en 16 anos de idade pero a Guerra Civil interrompeu a súa carreira durante uns anos. McLaughlin comezou a loitar de novo 1866. Por 1877,
In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou comezou a loitar como Jim Londos despois de varios anos como gimmicky “Xeseiro de loita libre”. Londos probablemente non se decatou de que o cambio de nome sería o primeiro paso para que se convertese na maior atracción de taquilla da loita libre profesional dos anos 30.. O segundo paso foi a súa aparición como loitador principal en St. Louis. Nacido en