Ken Zimmerman Jr.

I’ve frequently found the biggest challenge in researching early professional wrestling is separating fact from fiction. Even when the wrestlers competed in legitimate matches, they often inflated outcomes, built up apocryphal folklore around their victories and made up fanciful tales to explain away their losses. Professional wrestling sprang from the carnivals and retained the promotional instincts of this art. St.

Τον Δεκέμβριο 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

Την Δευτέρα, Φεβρουάριος 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Μικρή Demon” Joe Acton met at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. It would be the first of several exhibition bouts between the men. They performed these exhibitions in the larger Midwestern cities in early 1887. Like the St. Paul match I covered in an earlier post, Lewis and Acton agreed to

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. Σε αυτό το επεισόδιο, Θα συζητήσουμε τι Evan “Ο Στραγγαλιστής” Λουδοβίκος’ αναμονή θα ονομάζεται σήμερα. Main Content – Όταν άκουσα για πρώτη φορά από τον ασφυκτικό κλοιό "κολλάει στα χέρια» του Evan "The Στραγγαλιστής" Lewis, ακουγόταν σαν γκιλοτίνα τσοκ. Ωστόσο, διάφορες πηγές Έλεγξα το περιέγραψε ως μια οπίσθια γυμνή έμφραξη. Λουδοβίκος