Epizoda 3: Evan “Strangler” Lewis

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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

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Epizoda 2: Jim Londos

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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

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Epizoda 1: Gotch vs. Hack

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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, Epizoda 1 – Gotch vs. Predogled epizode Hack V tej epizodi, Govoril bom o dejstvih in mitih okoli dveh tekem med Frankom Gotchom in Georgeom Hackenschmidtom. During May 2016 po raziskavi moških karier v prejšnjih dveh letih, Izpustil sem Gotcha

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Night and the City (1950)

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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

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Big Man Too Much for Jenkins

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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

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1883 Turnir v Buffalu v New Yorku

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V petek, Junij 29, 1883, fourteen wrestlers paid $50 to enter a two-day tournament for a $500 championship belt and $500 prize. Richard K. Fox, owner and publisher of the Police Gazette, put up the prize money and belt. Fox avidly supported the promotion of both professional boxing and professional wrestling. While fourteen men attempted to enter the tournament, Fox

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Wladek Zbyszko vs. Helio Gracie

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When Wladek Zbyszko travelled from the United States to Brazil for a lucrative tour on Brazil’s well-developed professional wrestling circuit, Zbyszko little suspected that he would wrestle his first contest in almost twenty years. Like their American counterparts, Brazilian professional wrestlers worked with each other to put on exciting exhibitions for the fans. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a

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Dan McLeod Wrestles “Kmet” Burns

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Oktobra 26, 1897, Martin “Farmer” Burns defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Scottish catch wrestler Dan McLeod. Burns and McLeod were two of the top three or four catch-as-catch-can wrestlers in the United States at the time. 1,200 fans attended the match held at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Promoters often put a mat or heavy

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