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När Wladek Zbyszko reste från USA till Brasilien för en lukrativ turné vidare
Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
På April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
På April 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fansen ansåg att Mahmout var en tuff utmanare främst för att de inte hade sett honom brottas. Emil Klank, Gotchs chef, övertygade utländska brottare med gott rykte som Mahmout och Stanislaus Zbyszko att resa till Amerika för att utmana Gotch. Fans
Aleksander “Alex” Aberg made headlines in 1917 during a lawsuit over his refusal to fulfill a wrestling committment in Boston during March 1917. Aberg agreed to wrestle Wladek Zbyszko, his main opponent during the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournaments, for Boston promoter George Touhey. Emellertid, Aberg pulled out of the bout shortly after signing an agreement to wrestle his
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,
Clarence Whistler föddes i Indiana under 1856. Medan man bara står 5’09” eller så och vägning 165 pounds, Whistler ansågs vara en av de mest kraftfulla brottarna på sin tid. Whistler var den enda brottaren som kunde ge William Muldoon svårt under Muldoons 9-åriga körning som världsmästare. Whistler tävlade främst i grekisk-romersk brottning, den dominerande stilen i
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, när de stannade till vid en
På 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. Medan Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American
Leder in i hans januari 24, 1921 titelmatch med tidigare världsmästaren Earl Caddock, Världsmästare i tungviktsbrottning Ed “Strangler” Lewis var känd för att ha skadat sina tidigare två motståndare, Wladek Zbyszko och Joe Stecher, med sitt huvudlås. Lewis skulle använda huvudlåset för att höftkasta sin motståndare i golvet. Zbyszko slogs meningslös, när hans huvud träffade
On St. Patrick’s Day 1908, Martin “Farmer” Burns träffade den lilla men kraftfulla Fred Beell. Medan båda brottarna vägde 165 pounds, “Farmer” Burns stod 5'11” till Beells 5’04”. Den 32-årige Beell hade dock en stor åldersfördel gentemot den 47-årige Burns. Burns debuterade in 1879, när Beell var 3 år gammal. Herrarna var planerade till en match i Omaha, Nebraska, en
På April 21, 1884, Duncan C. Ross met Sorakichi Matsuda, also known as Matsada, the first Japanese professional wrestler in the United States. Matsuda immigrated to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler because it didn’t really exist in Japan at the time. 28-year-old Duncan Ross was born in Turkey of Scottish descent on March
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mars 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 från att drunkna