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Martin “Kmet” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Kmet” Burns je bil velik borec v svoji desni. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 funtov. V 1891, Opekline so Iowa prvak v težki kategoriji je na JC. Comstock, Michigan prvak v težki kategoriji. J.C. Comstock was

Januarja 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, nekaj ameriških rokoborcev je pred tem celo trdilo, da so Nogert

In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times novinar Billy Murphy je intervjuval St. Louisov rokoborski promotor John Contos. Murphy je Contosu predlagal, da je obdobja dominantnih rokoborcev, kot je William Muldoon, konec. Murphy je spregovoril o nedavni tekmi med “Svetovni prvak” Hardneck Phillips in tekmec v igri Webster O'Malley. Phillips je uspešno ubranil svoje prvenstvo, tako da je za njim vrgel O'Malleyja 1 hour, 50

In “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”

Stanislaus Zbyszko je bil na turneji po Združenih državah Amerike 1910 v pripravah na dvoboj za naslov s svetovnim prvakom v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Frankom Gotchom kasneje v tem letu. Njegova turneja ga je pripeljala v St. Louis maja 29, 1910. Zbyszko se je moral srečati z zelo cenjenim grapplerjem v lahki težki kategoriji Charleyjem Olsonom. Olson je bil spreten rokoborec, ki je treniral pri sv. Louis rokoborec George

Aprila 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 let. Gotch je bil leto starejši, a veljal za vzpona. Navijači in novinarji, ki pokrivajo šport, so menili, da je Gotch

V torek, Marec 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 in 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, ki je bil 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. Na žalost, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona