Tag: Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling

Sisse 1922, New Yorgi promootor Jack Curley sattus Gold Dust Trio vastu, juht Billy Sandow, Maailma raskekaalu maadluse meister Ed “Strangler” Lewis ja maadleja/reklaamigeenius Joseph “Toots” Mondt. Trio kontrollis maailmameistrivõistlusi ja külmutas Curley tšempioni broneerimise. Et Trioga tasa saada, Curley hakkas agressiivselt propageerima maadluse olümpiahõbedat ja kolledžit

aastal reisis Stanislaus Zbyszko USA-sse 1909 otsib matši tunnustatud raskekaalu maadluse maailmameistri Frank Gotchiga. Selleks, et saada selle väljakutse jaoks vormi ja luua tiitlimatši ootusi, Zbyskzo tuuritas enamikus USA suuremates linnades. During May 1910, Zbyszko saabus St. Louis'i matši eest võimeka maadleja Charlesiga

On detsember 14, 1922, rahvahulk 10,000 fännid täitsid St. Louis Coliseum, et vaadata kordusmatši praeguse raskekaalu maadluse maailmameistri Ed “Strangler” Lewis ja endine meister Stanislaus Zbyszko. Lewis “defeated” Zbyszko tiitli eest Wichitas, Kansas märtsis 1922. Nendele fännidele tundmatu, plaan oli, et Zbyszko kaotab matši Lewisele aga

Aasta jaanuaris 1905, well-regarded wrestler Gus Schoenlein, also known as Americus, agreed to meet Fred Beell in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein expected to beat Beell easily. At 5’10” ja 210 naela, “Americus” towered over the 5’04”, 170 pound Beell. While Beell was powerfully built, Schoenlein’s 40 pounds was a mountainous advantage. Both men were skilled wrestlers though. Teine,

Kui Billy Sandow ja Ed Lewis otsustasid, et Stanislaus Zbyszko tiitlivõitlus on reklaamiaur otsa saanud, nad otsustasid “win” back the title in March 1922. St. Louis promoter John Contos was able to secure the big rematch, which would occur at the St. Louis Coliseum on Thursday, Detsember 14, 1922. By this time, American professional wrestling outside of

Neljapäeval, November 22, 1923, St. Louis promoter John Contos hosted a controversial card topped by a match between Joe Stecher and Dan Kolov, an up-and-coming Bulgarian wrestler. The card was covered by John E. Wray, the Sports Editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The card was controversial because two of the biggest stars in wrestling were advertised but didn’t

Yusuf Ismail only wrestled in the United States for six months in the first half of 1898. In his first significant match, he was disqualified for a vicious foul. In his only other significant match, he gave Evan “Strangler” Lewis the beating of his life. Yet his short tour of the United States made him a legend. Ismail entered the

On neljapäeva õhtul, November 25, 1909, World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch kohtus Poola Maadlus Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko jaoks puude mängu Buffalo, New York. Gotch nõus loobuma hooaeg, kui ta ei viska Zbyszko kaks korda tunnis. Zbyszko suurus ja tugevus probleeme tekitanud Gotch, kes kaalus 190 naela Zbyszko on 260 naela. Siiski, Zbyszko

In a blog post last month, I wrote about the difficulty promoters had in staging the Joe Stecher vs Jess Westergaard match. Originally scheduled for Omaha, Nebraska, the Omaha Chief of Police and Police Commissioner were concerned about the match being prearranged or a “work”. They didn’t want gamblers being taken in by the exhibition. To prevent this occurrence, they

Frank Gotch, the farm boy from Humboldt, Iowa, would defeat George Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1908. This victory and his subsequent defeat of “Hack” in the 1911 rematch cemented Gotch’s place as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Gotch was a very talented wrestler but he was not the undefeated wunderkind of legend. Gotch