Ken Zimmerman Jr.

William Muldoon, Lumea greco-romane Lupta campion și adept culturii fizice, a venit la Los Angeles, marți, Aprilie 15, 1884 pentru a face față wrestler locale Fred Bauer. Meciul a avut loc la Sala Turnvereine locală în Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he

Sâmbătă, Noiembrie 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minute. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem possessed

Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. He used

Luni, Decembrie 6, 1932, 41-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled one of his last legitimate contests to settle a promotional dispute in New York. After initially being allies in promotion, Jim Londos broke away from Jack Curley’s group in New York. To restore peace, the parties decided on a legitimate contest or “shoot” to settle the dispute. Joseph „Toots” Mondt

Marți, Decembrie 12, 1916, local favorite, Ioan “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. Totuși, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, când