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Da Wladek Zbyszko rejste fra USA til Brasilien for en lukrativ tur videre
William Muldoon var verdensmester i sværvægt baseret på hans nederlag af Thiebaud Bauer i? Hvordan
On April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
On April 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fans betragtede Mahmout som en hård udfordrer, primært fordi de ikke havde set ham kæmpe. Emil Klank, Gotchs manager, overbeviste udenlandske wrestlere med godt ry som Mahmout og Stanislaus Zbyszko til at rejse til Amerika for at udfordre Gotch. Fans
Aleksander “Alex” Aberg trak overskrifter ind 1917 under en retssag over hans afvisning af at opfylde en wrestling-forpligtelse i Boston i marts 1917. Aberg gik med til at kæmpe Wladek Zbyszko, hans hovedmodstander under 1915 New Yorks internationale brydningsturneringer, for Boston-promotoren George Touhey. Men, Aberg trak sig ud af kampen kort efter at have underskrevet en aftale om at bryde hans
After marrying his wife Gladys and beating Georg Hackenschmidt a second time, both in 1911, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch began to wrestle a more limited schedule. His wife Gladys was not a big fan of wrestling and wanted her new husband to spend more time at home in Humboldt, Iowa. In the world of wrestling at the time,
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For the October 5, 1861 edition of the Cincinnati Daily Press, editors pulled a story off the wire service from the Spirit of the Times. The wire story reported on a fight between former English prizefighting champion Tom Sayers and current English champion Jem Mace. Both Sayers and Mace were touring with English circuses, when they stopped in at a
Den maj 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
Fører ind i hans januar 24, 1921 titelkamp med den tidligere verdensmester Earl Caddock, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis var ry for at have skadet sine tidligere to modstandere, Wladek Zbyszko og Joe Stecher, med sin hovedlås. Lewis ville bruge hovedlåsen til at hoftekaste sin modstander i gulvet. Zbyszko blev slået meningsløs, da hans hoved ramte
On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Farmer” Burns mødte den lille, men magtfulde Fred Beell. Mens begge brydere vejede 165 pounds, “Farmer” Burns stod 5'11” til Beells 5’04”. Den 32-årige Beell havde dog en stor aldersfordel i forhold til den 47-årige Burns. Burns debuterede i 1879, da Beell var 3 år gammel. Mændene var planlagt til en kamp i Omaha, Nebraska, en
On April 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross mødte Sorakichi Matsuda, også kendt som Matsada, den første japanske professionelle wrestler i USA. Matsuda immigrerede til USA for at forfølge sin drøm om at blive professionel wrestler, fordi den ikke rigtig eksisterede i Japan på det tidspunkt. 28-årige Duncan Ross blev født i Tyrkiet af skotsk afstamning i marts
On St. Patrick’s Day, Marts 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning