Joe Stecher Beats Ad Santel

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Joe Stecher started out 1915, a fateful year for his career, with a victory over Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled under the name Otto Carpenter for this match but was known to professional wrestling fans as Ad Santel. Santel had a deserved reputation for being a vicious “Hooker”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made

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Lewis Wrestles Mouths f’Kansas City

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Champion tad-Dinja tal-Lotta Heavyweight Ed “Strangler” Lewis ġġieled mijiet ta’ logħbiet leġittimi ta’ lotta ma’ Joseph “Toots” Mondt matul is-snin. Waqt konversazzjonijiet mal-protejat żagħżugħ tiegħu, Lou Thesz, Lewis qal li fil-karriera twila tiegħu kellu biss jinkwieta li jitlef kontra żewġ wrestlers. Mondt u Stanislaus Zbyszko biss kellhom iċ-ċans li jegħlbuh f'kompetizzjoni leġittima. Wieħed

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Nipprepara lil Munn għal Lewis

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On Sunday, Diċembru 14, 1924, “Big” Wayne Munn wrestled Joseph “Toots” Mondt fl-avveniment ewlieni tal-karta tal-lotta fil-Kansas City, Missouri, Sala tal-Konvenzjoni. 10,000 il-partitarji dehru jferrħu lil Munn, eks plejer tal-futbol tal-kulleġġ għall-Università ta’ Nebraska. Munn ġie fatturat għal 6’06”, li setgħet kienet esaġerazzjoni imma kien b’mod sinifikanti

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Bidwi Burns Battalji Evan Lewis

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L-akbar logħba tal-lotta professjonali Amerikana tas-Seklu 19 seħħet f’April 21, 1895 f'Chicago, Illinois. Evan “Strangler” Lewis iddefenda l-Kampjonat Amerikan tal-Lotta Heavyweight tiegħu kontra Martin “Farmer” Burns. Iż-żgħażagħ ta’ 34 sena kienu t-tnejn tas-sengħa “ganċijiet” jew istivi sottomissjoni jagħmluhom il-quċċata tal-katina alimentari fil-lotta professjonali leġittimu. Lewis kien ilu champion bla dubju minn dakinhar 1893

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Gotch Bests Bulgarian

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Dwar April 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, f'Chicago, Illinois for his title. Il-partitarji qiesu lil Mahmout bħala sfidant iebes primarjament għax ma kinux raw lilu jissieltu. Emil Klank, Il-maniġer ta’ Gotch, kkonvinċa lottaturi barranin b'reputazzjoni tajba bħal Mahmout u Stanislaus Zbyszko biex jivvjaġġaw lejn l-Amerika biex jisfidaw lil Gotch. Fannijiet

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Aberg Tesponi lil Curley

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Aleksander “Alex” Aberg għamel aħbarijiet fi 1917 waqt kawża dwar ir-rifjut tiegħu li jwettaq impenn ta’ lotta f’Boston matul Marzu 1917. Aberg qabel li jiġġieled Wladek Zbyszko, avversarju prinċipali tiegħu matul il- 1915 Tournaments Internazzjonali tal-Lotta ta’ New York, għall-promotur ta’ Boston George Touhey. Madankollu, Aberg ħareġ mill-ġlieda ftit wara li ffirma ftehim biex jiġġieled tiegħu

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Gotch Breaks Leg

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Wara li żżewweġ lil martu Gladys u għeleb it-tieni darba lil Georg Hackenschmidt, it-tnejn fil 1911, Iċ-Champion Dinji tal-Lotta tal-Piż Tqil Frank Gotch beda jissieltu skeda aktar limitata. Martu Gladys ma kinitx dilettanta kbira tal-lotta u riedet li r-raġel il-ġdid tagħha jqatta’ aktar ħin id-dar f’Humboldt, Iowa. Fid-dinja tal-lotta dak iż-żmien,

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Clarence Whistler Dies in Australia

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Clarence Whistler was born in Indiana during 1856. While standing only 5’09” or so and weighing 165 liri, Whistler was considered one of the most powerful wrestlers of his era. Whistler was the only wrestler able to give William Muldoon a hard time during Muldoon’s 9-year run as World Champion. Whistler primarily competed in Greco-Roman wrestling, the dominant style in

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Zbyszko Injures Dr. Roller

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Fuq Mejju 17, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko’s year-long tour of America continued as he met Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Buffalo, New York. Zbyszko, a Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion from Poland, wanted to generate interest in a potential match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. While Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American

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Ed “Strangler” Lewis’ Deadly Headlock

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Leading into his January 24, 1921 title match with former world champion Earl Caddock, Champion tad-Dinja tal-Lotta Heavyweight Ed “Strangler” Lewis was reputed to have injured his previous two opponents, Wladek Zbyszko and Joe Stecher, with his headlock. Lewis would use the headlock to hip toss his opponent to the floor. Zbyszko was knocked senseless, when his head hit the

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