Povjesničar borilačkih sportova i borilački umjetnik
Travanj 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Prvog listopada 20, 1916, Ad Santel, poznata "kurva" ili vješti hrvač submissionom, met Taro
Tko je najveći legitimni profesionalni hrvač koji se hrva u Sjedinjenim Državama? Kako
Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Odjel Louis policije. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “worked” matches thrown in the mix. Po 1904 ili 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
U ponedjeljak, Svibanj 30, 1892, veliki Peter Jackson boksao se u rukavicama s bivšim štićenikom Frankom Slavinom. Obojica su živjela i borila se u Australiji, iako je interes obožavatelja naveo Jacksona na turneju po svijetu kako bi iskoristio financijske prilike u Sjedinjenim Državama i Engleskoj. Kao u Australiji, Jackson je često pronalazio bijele boksače koji nisu voljni boriti se s njim. Nekoliko
St. Louis, na početku 20. stoljeća, imao istaknutu profesionalnu boksačku scenu. Abe Attell, iako rođen u San Franciscu, sa sjedištem u St. Louis. U veljači 1, 1904, Attell je branio titulu Svjetskog boksačkog prvaka u pero kategoriji protiv čestog rivala Harryja Forbesa. Forbes je također bio redoviti gost na St. Louis boksačka scena. Forbes je pobijedio Dannyja Doughertyja za
Jim Londos popeo se u profesionalnom hrvanju da bi postao najveća zvijezda blagajni ne samo 1930-ih nego i svih vremena. Međutim, da Londos nije došao u St. Louisu ranih 1920-ih, priča je mogla biti sasvim drugačija. Londos je naučio hrvanje uhvati-kao-uhvati, dok je Londos nastupao kao jak čovjek u karnevalskom krugu tijekom
Sam Langford se smatra jednim od najvećih funta za funta boraca svih vremena. Rođen u ožujku 4, 1883 u Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, smatra se najvećim kanadskim boksačem svih vremena. Njegova borilačka karijera protezala se od 1900 to 1926. Langford je samo stajao 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. On
Prvog listopada 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Prvenstvo, ali je ostao izvan svjetla pozornosti do
Studeni 7, 1908, Charles Olson upoznao “Americus” Gus Schonlein za Svjetsko prvenstvo u hrvanju u poluteškoj kategoriji. Utakmica se pokazala uzbudljivom koliko su promatrači i očekivali da će biti, ali završila je kontroverzama. Olson je bio 6’01” ali vagao samo 170 funti. Rođen kao Max Flaskamp u Krefeldu, Sjeverna Rajna-Vestfalija u 1879, uzeo je ime Charles ili Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 funti. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Međutim, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, who traveled to America to take on Frank Gotch after he defeated
U Božićnoj noći 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko met Giovanni Raicievich in a much-anticipated heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, who was campaigning for a rematch with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, agreed to throw Raicevich 3 times in 90 minutes or be declared the loser. As the men entered the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, Zbyszko was clearly the