Tag: Catch-as-Catch-Can glíma

Í 1922, New York promoter Jack Curley ran afoul of the Gold Dust Trio, manager Billy Sandow, Heimsmeistari í þungavigt í glímu Ed “Strangler” Lewis and wrestler/promotional genius Joseph “Toots” Mondt. The Trio controlled the world championship and froze Curley out of booking the champion. To get even with the Trio, Curley began aggressively promoting Olympic wrestling silver medalist and collegiate

Stanislaus Zbyszko traveled to the United States in 1909 seeking a match with recognized World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. To get in shape for this challenge and build anticipation for the title match, Zbyskzo toured most of the major cities in the United States. During May 1910, Zbyszko arrived in St. Louis for his match with capable wrestler Charles

Á Desember 14, 1922, a crowd of 10,000 fans filled the St. Louis Coliseum til að horfa á endurleik núverandi heimsmeistara í þungavigt, Ed “Strangler” Lewis og fyrrum meistari Stanislaus Zbyszko. Lewis “ósigur” Zbyszko fyrir titilinn í Wichita, Kansas í mars 1922. Óþekkt hjá þessum aðdáendum, planið var að Zbyszko myndi tapa leiknum fyrir Lewis en

Í janúar 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” og 210 £, “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. Annað,

Þegar Billy Sandow og Ed Lewis ákváðu að titilveldi Stanislaus Zbyszko væri að verða uppiskroppa með kynningar., þeir ákváðu það “vinna” baka titilinn í mars 1922. St. John Contos, framherji Louis, gat tryggt sér stóra umspilið, sem átti sér stað á St. Louis Coliseum á fimmtudaginn, Desember 14, 1922. By this time, Bandarísk atvinnuglíma fyrir utan

Á fimmtudaginn, Nóvember 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-Sending. 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

Á fimmtudagskvöld, Nóvember 25, 1909, Heimurinn Glíma Champion Frank Gotch hitti Polish glímukappi Stanislaus Zbyszko fyrir fötlun leik í Buffalo, New York. Gotch samþykkt að sleppa bardagann ef hann gæti ekki kasta Zbyszko tvisvar í klukkutíma. Stærð Zbyszko og styrkur búið vandamál fyrir Gotch, sem vó 190 pund til Zbyszko er 260 £. Þó, 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 “Hakk” í því 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