Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
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Þegar Wladek Zbyszko ferðaðist frá Bandaríkjunum til Brasilíu í ábatasama ferð
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Apríl 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Charles Green, a skilled English catch-as-catch-can wrestler, traveled to the United States in the late 1880s to wrestle the best American wrestlers. Green got his opportunity on July 21, 1889, when he wrestled American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch-Can Champion Evan Lewis. To prepare for this match, Green took a handicap bout with journeyman wrestler Bert Scheller in late June. Scheller was born
Mike “Twin” Sullivan krafa welterweight Veröld Boxing Championship, þegar hann decisioned Honey Mellody í apríl 1907. Sem hlotið bæði þungur hendur og betri en venjulega box færni, Sullivan krafa sigra yfir miklu Joe Gans og framtíð welterweight Veröld Boxing Champion Harry Lewis á ferlinum. Lewis vann welterweight titilinn, þegar Sullivan gat ekki lengur gert 147 pound
Whether it was a double-cross or an attempt to setup a legitimate contest, Paul Bowser’s attempt to secure a match between Joe Stecher and Joe Malcewicz nearly resulted in a riot on March 11, 1926. Events of the previous year actually set this debacle into motion. From the end of 1922, the Gold Dust Trio of Ed “Strangler” Lewis, hans
Tom Jenkins had the distinction of being the only wrestler to defeat Frank Gotch multiple times. Jenkins and Gotch traded the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship between 1902 og 1906. At the time of this match, Jenkins was the champion again. Fred Beell had been campaigning for a match with Jenkins for the past several months. Beell finally convinced Jenkins to
On Joe Acton’s 33rd birthday, Mars 8, 1885, he wrestled fellow countryman Tom Cannon in a 2-out-of-3-falls match at Sportsman Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. Acton and Cannon had a long history together. Both men were born in England in early 1952. Cannon was born a month later than Acton on April 19, 1852. Both men started wrestling in the
1909 sá Stanley Ketchel halda áfram hröðum hraða sínum í gegnum alla efstu bardagamennina í kringum millivigtarmörkin. Í mars 1909, Ketchel stóð frammi fyrir sjaldgæfa áskorun, þegar hann barðist við ríkjandi heimsmeistara í léttþungavigt Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. O'Brien var klókur boxari, sem notaði hraða sinn og fáránleika til að kýla Ketchel í fyrstu lotunum. Þrátt fyrir stærðarforskot O'Brien, Ketchel hvað
Joseph “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally from the early 1910s through the 1930s but he made his real mark as a booker, booking agent and promoter. While Ed “Strangler” Lewis considered Mondt his equal in a legitimate wrestling match, Mondt has a genius for creating angles and finishes in worked wrestling exhibitions. Mondt would join Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow
Frá því seint 1921 til 1923, John Contos kynnti atvinnuglímu í St. Louis, Missouri. Þó, Contos ákvað að yfirgefa stöðuhækkunina til að einbeita sér að því að stjórna ferli verðandi stjörnu Dan Kolov. Áður en farið er frá St. Louis, Contos seldi Tom Packs kynninguna, frænda hans og aðstoðarmaður í stöðuhækkuninni. Pakkar’ fyrsta kortið átti að vera á föstudaginn, Janúar 4, 1924.
Þegar rætt er um titil Stanislaus Zbyszko ríkir frá 1921 til 1922, Aðalástæðan sem gefin var upp fyrir að taka titilinn af honum var sú að titilveldi hans var misheppnuð í miðasölu. Staðfesta tölurnar þessa trú? Áður en hann vann meistaratitilinn, Zbyszko glímdi fyrrum meistarann Joe Stecher á 71. herdeild Armory fyrir framan 7,000 fans. Í 1915, á
When William Muldoon retired as the World Heavyweight Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion in 1889, there was no ready successor to the championship. Evan “Strangler” Lewis was the best wrestler in the United States not named William Muldoon but his specialty was catch-as-catch-can wrestling. The best American Greco-Roman wrestler, Clarence Whistler, had died in Australia during 1885. Muldoon’s handpicked successor was German-born