Hnub: Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling

Earl Caddock muaj ib tug kuj luv luv tab sis storied kev wrestling hauj lwm hauv lub caij 1910s lig thiab thaum ntxov 1920s thaum ntxov. Ua nws debut debut hauv 1915 Tom qab winning peb AAU lub teb chaws lub npe hauv amateur wrestling, Caddock tsuas wrestled professionally mus txog rau thaum 1922. Txawm li cas los, Nws yuav pom tau hais tias raws li ntiaj teb tau zus ib tom qab defeating Joe Stecher nyob rau lub plaub hlis 1917. Caddock yuav poob lub npe rov qab

Yos Xes “Toots” Mondt wrestled professionally ntawm cov 1910s thaum ntxov los ntawm cov 1930s, tiam sis nws ua nws kos tiag li ib booker, booking tus neeg saib xyuas thiab promoter. Thaum Ed “Strangler” Lewis pom tias Mondt nws sib npaug zos nyob rau hauv ib tseeb wrestling match, Mondt muaj ib tug ntse heev rau tsim angles thiab finishes ua haujlwm wrestling exhibitions. Mondt yuav koom Lewis thiab nws tus thawj tswj Billy Sandow

Thaum tawm tswv yim stanislaus Zbyszko lub npe reign ntawm 1921 mus 1922, Yog vim li cas thiaj muab rau kev noj lub npe ntawm nws yog tias nws lub npe reign yog ib qhov chaw ua hauj lwm tsis ua hauj lwm. Ua cov zauv validate no ntseeg? Ua ntej yuav yeej lub championship, Zbyszko wrestled qub tau zus ib Joe Stecher ntawm lub 71st Regiment Armory pem lub taub hau 7,000 kiv cua. Nyob rau hauv 1915, tus

Joe Stecher pib tawm 1915, Ib fateful xyoo rau nws cov hauj lwm, Muaj ib tug yeej nyob Adolph Ernst. Ernst wrestled nyob rau hauv lub npe Otto Carpenter rau ntais ntawv no tab sis yog paub tias kev wrestling kiv cua li Ad Santel. Santel muaj ib lub koob npe nrov deserved rau ib vicious “hooker”, Ib wrestler skilled hauv submission tuas. Stecher yog ib tug 22 xyoo Nebraskan, leej twg ua

Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled 175,000 tseeb wrestling qhov yuam kev nrog Joseph “Toots” Mondt xyoo. Thaum sib tham nrog nws cov protégé, Lou Thesz, Lewis hais tias nws tsuas yuav tsum txhawj txog poob rau ob wrestlers nyob rau hauv nws cov hauj lwm ntev. Tsuas Mondt thiab Stanislaus Zbyszko muaj sij hawm uas defeating nws nyob hauv ib contest tseeb contest. One

Sunday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 14, 1924, “Loj” Wayne Munn wrestled Joseph “Toots” Mondt hauv lub ntsiab kev tshwm sim ntawm daim card wrestling ntawm lub nroog Kansas City, Missouri, Rooj sib txoos. 10,000 Kiv cua tsom mus cheer rau Munn, Ib tus kawm ntawv qib siab football neeg uas ua ntawv rau lub tsev kawm ntawv ntawm Nebraska. Munn yog billed ntawm 6’06”, Uas tej zaum yuav tau ib exaggeration tab sis nws yog ho

Tus biggest American pro wrestling match ntawm lub xyoo pua 19th tshwm sim rau lub plaub hlis 21, 1895 nyob Chicago, Illinois. Evan “Strangler” Lewis defended nws American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship tiv thaiv Martin “Ua teb” Zaus. Tus 34 xyoo tau ob leeg skilled nrog “nqe lauj” los yog submission tuas ua rau lawv saum cov zaub mov saw hlau nyob tseeb wrestling. Lewis twb tau undisputed tau zus ib txij thaum 1893

Nyob rau hnub tim 14, 1909, Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Frank Gotch ntsib Yussif Mahmout, ib tug koom Bulgarian wrestler, nyob Chicago, Illinois rau nws lub npe. Kiv cua pom mahmout ib tawv challenger feem ntau vim lawv twb tsis pom nws wrestle. Emil Klank, Gotch tus thawj tswj, convinced txawv teb chaws wrestlers nrog lub koob npe nrov zoo li Mahmout thiab Stanislaus Zbyszko mus rau America los sib tw Gotch. kiv cua

Tom qab marrying nws tus poj niam Gladys thiab beating Georg Hackenschmidt ib ob zaug, ob leeg nyob rau hauv ob leeg 1911, Ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Tau zus ib Frank Gotch pib wrestle ib lub sij hawm txwv ntau txwv. Nws tus poj niam Gladys twb tsis muaj kiv cua loj wrestling thiab xav nws tus txiv tshiab los siv sij hawm ntau nyob rau hauv Tsev nyob rau hauv Humboldt, Iowa. Nyob hauv lub ntiaj teb wrestling thaum lub sij hawm,