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Þegar Wladek Zbyszko ferðaðist frá Bandaríkjunum til Brasilíu í ábatasama ferð
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Apríl 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” 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
Þó frægur fyrir að berjast við John L. Sullivan í síðasta heimsmeistarakeppni verðlaunabardaga sem keppt var undir berum hnúareglum, Jake Kilrain tók einnig þátt í mörgum hanskabardögum. Verðlaunabaráttan var að breytast úr reglum um beina hnúa yfir í hanskabardaga samkvæmt reglum Marquess of Queensberry (snemma áhugamanna- og atvinnuhnefaleikar) seint á 19. öld. Eins og Sullivan, Kilrain myndi berjast í dúr
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