Ken Zimmerman Jr.

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they

Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hakk” í því 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch

Janúar 10, 1912, Stanislaus Zbyszko continued his campaign for another title shot with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To press his claim, he secured a match with Gotch training partner and protegé, Jake Westergard. Westergard claimed a questionable win over his mentor Gotch, who probably dropped the match to Westergard in a prearranged match. Zbyszko var þjálfaður

Lögreglustjórinn í Omaha, H.W. Dunn skapaði fyrirsagnir í mars 28, 1915, þegar hann gaf út skipun um að banna auglýsta atvinnuglímu Joe Stecher og Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 Leikurinn var á dagskrá í Omaha Auditorium. Yfirmaðurinn gaf í raun út skipunina að beiðni lögreglustjóra A.C. Kugel. Kugel gaf út yfirlýsingu til

Á Desember 13, 1920, Og “Strangler” Lewis sigraði Joe Stecher fyrir heimsmeistaramótið í þungavigt. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Þó, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud

Evan “Strangler” Lewis, einnig kallað Evan Lewis “sem Strangler”, var faglegur wrestler frá 1882 til 1899. Lewis var fyrsta American Heavyweight Afli-eins og-afli Glíma Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” eða “hang hold”, sem nútíma MMA aðdáendur þekkja sem guillotine choke. Lewis gerði faglega frumraun sína með því að vinna a 64 manna mót

Martin “Farmer” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Farmer” Burns var mikill wrestler í eigin rétti sínum. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 £. Í 1891, Burns sem Iowa þungavigtar meistari tók á JC. Comstock, að Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was

Janúar 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, nokkrir amerískir glímukappar höfðu jafnvel sagt að þeir væru Nogert áður