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Aprila 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Oktobra 20, 1916, Ad Santel, top-deset-legitimni-boroborec-platnica knjige, met Taro
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Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Policija Louis. 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. Jo 1904 ali 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,
Ponedeljek, Lahko 30, 1892, the great Peter Jackson boxed a gloved bout with former protégé Frank Slavin. Both men lived and fought in Australia, although fan interest led Jackson to tour the world to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the United States and England. As in Australia, Jackson often found white boxers unwilling to fight him. Few
St. Louis, at the beginning of the 20th Century, had a prominent professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, although born in San Francisco, was based in St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell defended his World Featherweight Boxing Championship against frequent rival Harry Forbes. Forbes was also a regular on the St. Louis boxing scene. Forbes defeated Danny Dougherty for the
Jim Londos se je povzpel po lestvici profesionalne rokoborbe in postal največja blagajniška zvezda ne le tridesetih let prejšnjega stoletja, ampak vseh časov. Vendar, če Londos ne bi prišel v St. Louisu v zgodnjih dvajsetih letih prejšnjega stoletja, zgodba bi lahko bila čisto drugačna. Londos se je naučil rokoborbe ujemi, ko jih ulovi, medtem ko je Londos nastopal kot močan mož v karnevalskem krogu med
Sam Langford velja za eno od največjih funt za funt borcev vseh časov. Rojen marca 4, 1883 v Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, on velja za največjega kanadskega boksar vseh časov. Njegov boj kariera je segala od 1900 za 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. He
Oktobra 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, a ostal zunaj soja žarometov do
Novembra 7, 1908, Charles Olson srečal “Americus” Gus Schonlein za svetovno prvenstvo v rokoborbi v poltežki kategoriji. Tekma se je izkazala za tako razburljivo, kot so opazovalci slutili, da bo, vendar se je končala polemično. Olson je bil 6’01” stehtali pa le 170 funtov. Rojen kot Max Flaskamp v Krefeldu, Severno Porenje-Vestfalija v 1879, prevzel je ime Charles ali Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 funtov. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Vendar, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, ki je odpotoval v Ameriko, da bi se pomeril s Frankom Gotchom po njegovem porazu
Na božični večer 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko se je srečal z Giovannijem Raicievichem v težko pričakovanem dvoboju v težki kategoriji.. Zbyszko, ki se je zavzemal za povratni dvoboj s svetovnim prvakom v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Frankom Gotchom, strinjal, da vrže Raiceviča 3 krat v 90 minut ali pa bo razglašen za poraženca. Ko so moški vstopili v slavni Madison Square Garden v New Yorku, Zbyszko je bil očitno tisti