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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.
O xefe de policía de Omaha H.W. Dunn creou titulares en marzo 28, 1915, cando emitiu unha orde prohibindo o anunciado combate de loita libre profesional entre Joe Stecher e Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 partido estaba programado para o Auditorio de Omaha. O xefe ditou efectivamente a orde a instancias do superintendente de Policía A.C. Kugel. Kugel emitiu unha declaración a
En decembro de 13, 1920, E “Estrangulador” Lewis derrotou a Joe Stecher polo seu World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Porén, such was the strong feelings between the men that the match may have been a “shoot” or legitimate match in which Lewis took the belt. Whether the outcome of the match was real, the feud
Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis, tamén chamado Evan Lewis “o Estrangulador”, foi un loitador profesional de 1882 para 1899. Lewis foi o primeiro americano campión Heavyweight Catch-as-catch pode Wrestling. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” ou “hang hold”, que os fans modernos de MMA coñecen como un estrangulador de guillotina. Lewis fixo súa estrea profesional, gañando un 64 torneo masculino
Martin “Agricultores” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Agricultores” Queimaduras foi un gran loitador no seu propio dereito. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 libras. En 1891, Queimaduras como o Heavyweight Champion Iowa asumiu JC. Comstock, o Heavyweight Champion Michigan. J.C. Comstock was
En xaneiro de 11, 1911, world heavyweight wrestling championship contender Stanislaus Zbysko faced the challenge of the powerful but less talented Peter “Giant” Nogert. Nogert was a South African wrestler, who came to the United States for a few years in the early 1910s. Due to a strong international reputation, uns cantos loitadores estadounidenses incluso afirmaran ser Nogert antes
In November 1923, St. O xornalista do Louis Star-Times, Billy Murphy, entrevistou a St. O promotor de loita libre Louis John Contos. Murphy propuxo a Contos que a era dos loitadores dominantes como William Muldoon rematara. Murphy falou do recente partido entre “Campión do Mundo” Hardneck Phillips e o competidor Webster O'Malley. Phillips defendeu con éxito o seu campionato lanzando a O'Malley despois 1 hour, 50
E “Estrangulador” Lewis and Joe Stecher conducted one of the greatest rivalries of the early arranged professional wrestling exhibition era. Lewis and Stecher wrestled many times including a five and a half hour draw in 1916. Several of their early matches appeared to be legitimate. Legend also has it that Lewis actually had to beat Stecher in a “shoot match”
Stanislaus Zbyszko toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis on May 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George
En abril 3, 1908, Wrestling Campión Americano Frank Gotch coñeceu World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt ao título mundial en Dexter Parque Pavilion en Chicago, California. Hackenschmidt estaba invicto como profesional, pero fora campión do mundo por uns 7 anos. Gotch era un ano maior, pero considerábao un novo. Os fans e xornalistas que cobren o deporte consideran Gotch
O martes, Marzo 22, 1910, Dr. Benjamin Roller met Stanislaus Zbyszko in a legitimate wrestling match. Professional wrestling would transition from legitimate contest to staged exhibition between 1910 e 1920. Dr. Benjamin Roller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania by playing professional football. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Dr.