Ken Zimmerman Jr.

Martin “Farmer” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Farmer” Roedd Burns yn wrestler mawr yn ei rinwedd ei hun. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 bunnoedd. Yn 1891, Llosgiadau fel y Pencampwr Pwysau Trwm Iowa gymerodd JC. Comstock, Pencampwr Pwysau Trwm Michigan. J.C. Comstock was

Ar Ionawr 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, roedd ychydig o reslwyr Americanaidd hyd yn oed wedi honni eu bod yn Nogert o'r blaen

In November 1923, St. Cyfwelodd gohebydd Louis Star-Times, Billy Murphy, St. Louis hyrwyddwr reslo John Contos. Cynigiodd Murphy i Contos fod oes reslwyr dominyddol fel William Muldoon ar ben. Siaradodd Murphy am y gêm ddiweddar rhwng “Pencampwr y Byd” Hardneck Phillips a'r ymgeisydd gêm Webster O'Malley. Llwyddodd Phillips i amddiffyn ei bencampwriaeth trwy daflu O’Malley ar ei ôl 1 hour, 50

Ed “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”

Bu Stanislaus Zbyszko ar daith o amgylch yr Unol Daleithiau yn 1910 i baratoi ar gyfer gêm deitl gyda Phencampwr Reslo Pwysau Trwm y Byd Frank Gotch yn ddiweddarach yn y flwyddyn. Daeth ei daith ag ef i St. Louis ym mis Mai 29, 1910. Roedd Zbyszko i fod i gwrdd â'r grappler pwysau trwm ysgafn uchel ei barch, Charley Olson. Roedd Olson yn reslwr medrus, a hyfforddodd gyda St. Louis wrestler George

Ar Ebrill 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt for the World Title at Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt was undefeated as a professional but had been World Champion for approximately 7 blynyddoedd. Gotch was a year older but considered an up and comer. Fans and reporters covering the sport considered Gotch

Ar ddydd Mawrth, Mawrth 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 a 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, who was 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. Yn anffodus,, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona