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Quando Wladek Zbyszko viaggiò dagli Stati Uniti al Brasile per un tour redditizio
Chi è il più grande wrestler professionista legittimo a lottare negli Stati Uniti? How do
Aprile 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
Autore e artista marziale, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Autore e artista marziale, Nebraska, Autore e artista marziale “work”. Autore e artista marziale. Autore e artista marziale, they
An ad was printed in the January 16, 1921 edizione del 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 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
Sebbene sia famoso per aver combattuto contro John L. Sullivan nell'ultimo incontro a premi del campionato mondiale disputato a mani nude, Anche Jake Kilrain ha preso parte a molti incontri con i guanti. Il combattimento a premi stava passando dalle regole a mani nude agli incontri con i guanti secondo le regole del Marchese di Queensberry (prima boxe amatoriale e professionistica) alla fine del XIX secolo. Come Sullivan, Kilrain avrebbe combattuto in maggiore
Gennaio 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 era un abile
Il capo della polizia di Omaha, H.W. Dunn ha fatto notizia a marzo 28, 1915, quando ha emesso un'ordinanza che vietava l'incontro di wrestling professionistico pubblicizzato tra Joe Stecher e Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 La partita era prevista per l'Auditorium di Omaha. Il capo in realtà ha emesso l'ordine per volere del sovrintendente di polizia A.C. Kugel. Kugel ha rilasciato una dichiarazione a
Dicembre 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis ha sconfitto Joe Stecher per il suo campionato mondiale di wrestling dei pesi massimi. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Tuttavia, 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, chiamato anche Evan Lewis “la Strangler”, era un wrestler professionista di 1882 a 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” o “hang hold”, che i moderni fan delle MMA conoscono come strozzatore a ghigliottina. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 torneo maschile
Balestruccio “Agricoltore” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Agricoltore” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 sterline. In 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was