Tag: ಕ್ಯಾಚ್-ಆಸ್-ಕ್ಯಾಚ್-ಕ್ಯಾನ್ ವ್ರೆಸ್ಲಿಂಗ್

On Joe Acton’s 33rd birthday, ಸರಹದ್ದು 8, 1885, he wrestled fellow countryman Tom Cannon in a 2-out-of-3-falls match at Sportsman Park in New Orleans, Louisiana. Acton and Cannon had a long history together. Both men were born in England in early 1952. Cannon was born a month later than Acton on April 19, 1852. Both men started wrestling in the

ಜೋಸೆಫ್ “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally from the early 1910s through the 1930s but he made his real mark as a booker, booking agent and promoter. While Ed “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis considered Mondt his equal in a legitimate wrestling match, Mondt has a genius for creating angles and finishes in worked wrestling exhibitions. Mondt would join Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow

When discussing Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign from 1921 <ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "423" bbox_y = "775" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = " 1922, the main reason given for taking the title from him was that his title reign was a box office failure. Do the numbers validate this belief? Prior to wining the championship, Zbyszko wrestled former champion Joe Stecher at the 71st Regiment Armory in front of 7,000 fans. <ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1563" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = " 1915, ದಿ

Joe Stecher started out 1915, a fateful year for his career, with a victory over Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled under the name Otto Carpenter for this match but was known to professional wrestling fans as Ad Santel. Santel had a deserved reputation for being a vicious “hooker”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made

ವಿಶ್ವ ಹೆವಿವೇಟ್ ವ್ರೆಸ್ಲಿಂಗ್ ಚಾಂಪಿಯನ್ ಎಡ್ “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis wrestled hundreds of legitimate wrestling matches with Joseph “Toots” Mondt over the years. During conversations with his young protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis said he only had to worry about losing to two wrestlers in his long career. Only Mondt and Stanislaus Zbyszko had a chance of defeating him in a legitimate contest. ಒಂದು

ಭಾನುವಾರ, ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ ತಿಂಗಳು 14, 1924, “Big” Wayne Munn wrestled Joseph “Toots” Mondt in the main event of the wrestling card at the Kansas City, ಮಿಸೌರಿ, Convention Hall. 10,000 fans showed up to cheer on Munn, a former college football player for the University of Nebraska. Munn was billed at 6’06”, which may have been an exaggeration but he was significantly

The biggest American pro wrestling match of the 19th Century occurred on April 21, 1895 in Chicago, ಇಲಿನಾಯ್ಸ್. ಇವಾನ್ “<ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನ್ bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "2121" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" ಕೆಂಪು = "255" ಹಸಿರು = "255" ನೀಲಿ = "255" ಆಲ್ಫಾ = "” Lewis defended his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Martin “ರೈತ” ಸುಟ್ಟಗಾಯ. The 34-year-olds were both skilled with “hooks” or submission holds making them the top of the food chain in legitimate professional wrestling. Lewis had been undisputed champion since 1893

ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ ರಂದು 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fans considered Mahmout a tough challenger primarily because they had not seen him wrestle. Emil Klank, Gotch’s manager, convinced foreign wrestlers with good reputations like Mahmout and Stanislaus Zbyszko to travel to America to challenge Gotch. Fans

After marrying his wife Gladys and beating Georg Hackenschmidt a second time, both in 1911, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch began to wrestle a more limited schedule. His wife Gladys was not a big fan of wrestling and wanted her new husband to spend more time at home in Humboldt, ಅಯೋವಾ. In the world of wrestling at the time,