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Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
Joseph “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 “Strangler” 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
From late 1921 til 1923, John Contos promoted professional wrestling in St. Louis, Missouri. Men, Contos decided to leave promotion to focus on managing the career of budding star Dan Kolov. Prior to leaving St. Louis, Contos sold the promotion to Tom Packs, his nephew and assistant in the promotion. Packs’ first card was scheduled for Friday, Januar 4, 1924.
When discussing Stanislaus Zbyszko’s title reign from 1921 til 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. I 1915, den
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 “luder”, a wrestler skilled in submission holds. Stecher was a 22-year-old Nebraskan, who made
World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” 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. Én
On Sunday, December 14, 1924, “Big” Wayne Munn kæmpede med Joseph “Toots” Mondt i hovedbegivenheden på wrestling-kortet i Kansas City, Missouri, Kongressalen. 10,000 fans mødte op for at heppe på Munn, en tidligere college fodboldspiller for University of Nebraska. Munn blev faktureret kl. 6’06”, hvilket kan have været en overdrivelse, men han var betydeligt
rejste til USA i slutningen af 1880'erne for at bryde de bedste amerikanske wrestlere 21, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. Evan “Strangler” Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin “Farmer” Burns. Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin “Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin” Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin. Lewis forsvarede sit amerikanske Heavyweight Wrestling Championship mod Martin 1893
On April 14, 1909, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met Yussif Mahmout, a skilled Bulgarian wrestler, in Chicago, Illinois for his title. Fans betragtede Mahmout som en hård udfordrer, primært fordi de ikke havde set ham kæmpe. Emil Klank, Gotchs manager, overbeviste udenlandske wrestlere med godt ry som Mahmout og Stanislaus Zbyszko til at rejse til Amerika for at udfordre 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, Iowa. In the world of wrestling at the time,
Den maj 17, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko’s year-long tour of America continued as he met Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Buffalo, New York. Zbyszko, a Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion from Poland, wanted to generate interest in a potential match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. While Dr. Roller was never able to beat Gotch, he was considered one of the top American