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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
Ég ákvað að byrja 2020 með því að nota tvö dæmi úr atvinnuglímunni til að ræða hvers vegna þú myndir breyta sögulegum frásögn sem þú skrifaðir í fortíðinni. Í söguritun, þú takmarkast af tiltækum heimildum um efnið. Aðalheimildir eins og dagbækur, opinberar skrár og ævisögur eru mjög verðmætar. Aðrar heimildir eins og dagblöð eru líka góðar en
Evan “Strangler” Lewis var skelfilegur keppandi. Þótt hann væri ekki stór maður á 5’09” og vó 170 £, Lewis’ leikni uppgjöf gert hann jafnan eða betri flestra wrestlers af tímum hans. Jack Carkeek var frábær wrestler en einn leik með Lewis nánast lét hann af störfum. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
Sama dag glímdi Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko um hina viðurkenndu útgáfu af heimsmeistaramótinu í þungavigt í St.. Louis, Og “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Stór” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Mars 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
Júlí 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Jafnvel þó Georges Carpentier
Apríl 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” eldspýtur. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J. Quinn, staðbundinn St. Louis lögmaður, starfaði sem framkvæmdastjóri atvinnuglímukappanna George Baptise, Charley Olson og Fred Beell. Upphaflega aðdáandi George Baptiste, sem var goðsögn í St. Louis hverfinu í kringum Cook og Vandeventer Avenue. Baptiste myndi ráða Quinn sem jötu sinn og síðar lögfræðing fyrir tjald- og skyggjufyrirtækið sitt. During his
Janúar 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Áætlun Rachmanns um að stofna Aberg gekk eins og áætlað var eftir að mótið hófst