Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Apríl 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Á október 20, 1916, Ad Santel, þekktur „krókari“ eða hæfur uppgjafarglímumaður, met Taro
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Thiebaud eða Theobald Bauer var franskur glímukappi, sem sérhæfði sig í grísk-rómverskri glímu. Bauer kom til Ameríku á meðan 1875 með vafasama tilkall til heimsmeistaramótsins í grísk-rómversku þungavigt. Hann myndi verja titil sinn fyrir 5 ár þar til William Muldoon sigraði í 1880. Ef glímuaðdáendur kannast yfirhöfuð við Bauer, það er venjulega sem andstæðingurinn
Á fimmtudaginn, Nóvember 22, 1923, St. Louis kynningarstjóri John Contos stóð fyrir umdeildu spjaldi sem var toppað af leik milli Joe Stecher og Dan Kolov, komandi búlgarskur glímumaður. Kortið var fjallað um John E. Wray, the Sports Editor for the St. Louis Post-Sending. The card was controversial because two of the biggest stars in wrestling were advertised but didn’t
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) gaf út Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) í nóvember 1941. Ein af síðari Thin Man myndunum (tengja hlekkur), myndin inniheldur áhugaverðar vinjettur fyrir glímuaðdáendur. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, er dreginn inn í ríkisrannsókn á staðbundnum spilahring. Tveir staðbundnir glímuforstjórar reka spilahringinn, sem er list að líkja eftir lífinu ef
Yusuf Ismail only wrestled in the United States for six months in the first half of 1898. In his first significant match, he was disqualified for a vicious foul. In his only other significant match, he gave Evan “Strangler” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the
Á fimmtudagskvöld, Nóvember 25, 1909, Heimurinn Glíma Champion Frank Gotch hitti Polish glímukappi Stanislaus Zbyszko fyrir fötlun leik í Buffalo, New York. Gotch samþykkt að sleppa bardagann ef hann gæti ekki kasta Zbyszko tvisvar í klukkutíma. Stærð Zbyszko og styrkur búið vandamál fyrir Gotch, sem vó 190 pund til Zbyszko er 260 £. Þó, Zbyszko
Wrestling promoter Samuel Rachman created the International Wrestling Tournament in Spring 1915 to highlight the abilities of Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. 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
Auglýsing var prentuð í janúar 16, 1921 útgáfa af St. Louis Post-Dispatch auglýsir póstpöntunarnámskeið um Jujitsu frá Capt. Allan Smith. Capt. Smith fæddist upphaflega í Skotlandi en var heillaður af sýnikennslu á japönsku jujitsu (reyndar Júdó) sá hann á Englandi. Smith ferðaðist til Japans með fyrirtæki og lærði júdó í fyrstu gráðu
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