Ken Zimmerman Jr.

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times novinar Billy Murphy je intervjuval St. Louisov rokoborski promotor John Contos. Murphy je Contosu predlagal, da je obdobja dominantnih rokoborcev, kot je William Muldoon, konec. Murphy je spregovoril o nedavni tekmi med “Svetovni prvak” Hardneck Phillips in tekmec v igri Webster O'Malley. Phillips je uspešno ubranil svoje prvenstvo, tako da je za njim vrgel O'Malleyja 1 hour, 50

In “Strangler” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”

V torek, Marec 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 in 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, ki je bil 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Na žalost, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

Pogosto sem ugotovil, da je največji izziv pri raziskovanju zgodnje profesionalne rokoborbe ločiti dejstva od fikcije. Tudi ko so rokoborci tekmovali v legitimnih dvobojih, pogosto so napihnili rezultate, zgradili apokrifno folkloro okoli svojih zmag in si izmislili domišljijske zgodbe, da bi razložili svoje izgube. Profesionalna rokoborba je izšla iz karnevalov in ohranila promocijske nagone te umetnosti. St.