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Toen reisde Wladek Zbyszko vanuit de Verenigde Staten naar Brazilië voor een lucratieve tournee
Wie is de grootste legitieme professionele worstelaar die in de Verenigde Staten worstelt?? How do
Op april 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Aberg was the Russian Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion. Rachman believed Aberg could beat any wrestler. Rachman also wanted to lure Frank Gotch, the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, out of retirement to wrestle with Aberg. Gotch wrestled George Lurich in
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
An ad was printed in the January 16, 1921 editie van de St. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising a mail order course on Jujitsu from Capt. Allan Smith. Capt. Smith was originally born in Scotland but was fascinated with demonstrations of Japanese Jujitsu (actually Judo) he saw in England. Smith traveled to Japan with a company and learned Judo reaching 1st degree
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 “Hack” in de 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
On January 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 was een vakman
Omaha hoofdcommissaris H.W. Dunn zorgde in maart voor het nieuws 28, 1915, toen hij een bevel uitvaardigde dat de geadverteerde professionele worstelwedstrijd tussen Joe Stecher en Jess Westergaard verbood. The April 6, 1915 wedstrijd was gepland voor het Omaha Auditorium. De chef vaardigde het bevel feitelijk uit in opdracht van hoofdinspecteur van politie A.C. Kugel. Kugel heeft een verklaring afgegeven
Op december 13, 1920, En “Worger” Lewis versloeg Joe Stecher voor zijn World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Echter, 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 “Worger” Lewis, ook wel Evan Lewis “de Strangler”, was een professionele worstelaar uit 1882 naar 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” of “hang hold”, die moderne MMA-fans kennen als een guillotine-choke. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 mannen toernooi
Martin “Boer” Burns is tegenwoordig beroemd als de trainer van de legendarische worstelaar Frank Gotch. “Boer” Burns was een groot worstelaar in zijn eigen recht. Burns won de Amerikaanse zwaargewicht Wrestling Champion in de legitieme pro wrestling tijdperk ondanks het feit dat alleen 165 pond. In 1891, Brandwonden als de Iowa zwaargewicht kampioen nam JC. Comstock, de Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was
On January 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, een paar Amerikaanse worstelaars hadden zelfs eerder beweerd Nogert te zijn