Ken Zimmerman Jr.

Yusuf Ismail v prvej polovici roka zápasil v Spojených štátoch iba šesť mesiacov 1898. Vo svojom prvom významnom zápase, bol vylúčený za hrubý faul. Vo svojom jedinom ďalšom významnom zápase, dal Evanovi “Strangler” Lewis výprask svojho života. No jeho krátke turné po Spojených štátoch z neho urobilo legendu. Ismail vstúpil do

On a Thursday night, November 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Polish Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko for a handicap match in Buffalo, New York. Gotch agreed to forfeit the bout if he could not throw Zbyszko twice in an hour. Zbyszko’s size and strength created problems for Gotch, who weighed 190 pounds to Zbyszko’s 260 libier. Však, Zbyszko

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 Gotcha, 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 “Kopnutie” in the 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 bol šikovný

Šéf polície v Omahe H.W. Dunn vytvoril titulky v marci 28, 1915, keď vydal príkaz zakazujúci propagovaný profesionálny wrestlingový zápas medzi Joe Stecherom a Jessom Westergaardom. The April 6, 1915 zápas bol naplánovaný na Omaha Auditorium. Náčelník skutočne vydal príkaz na príkaz policajného dozorcu A.C. Kugel. Kugel vydal vyhlásenie

Decembra 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis porazil Joea Stechera na jeho majstrovstvách sveta v ťažkej váhe. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Však, 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, tiež volal Evan Lewis “škrtič”, bol profesionálny zápasník z 1882 na 1899. Lewis bol prvý Američan Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Zápas Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” alebo “hang hold”, ktorú novodobí fanúšikovia MMA poznajú pod názvom gilotínová tlmivka. Lewis robil jeho profesionálny debut víťazstvom 64 mužský turnaj