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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.
Cảnh sát trưởng Omaha H.W. Dunn đã tạo ra các tiêu đề vào tháng 3 28, 1915, khi anh ta ra lệnh cấm trận đấu vật chuyên nghiệp được quảng cáo giữa Joe Stecher và Jess Westergaard. The April 6, 1915 trận đấu đã được lên lịch tại Thính phòng Omaha. Cảnh sát trưởng thực sự đã ra lệnh theo lệnh của Giám đốc Cảnh sát A.C. Kugel. Kugel đã đưa ra một tuyên bố
Ngày 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis đã đánh bại Joe Stecher để giành chức vô địch đấu vật hạng nặng thế giới. Professional wrestling was a staged exhibition by 1920. Tuy nhiên, 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 “Strangler” Đồ dùng móc đá lên cao, cũng gọi là Evan Lewis “các Strangler”, là một đô vật chuyên nghiệp từ 1882 để 1899. Lewis was the first American Heavyweight Catch-as-Catch Can Wrestling Champion. He was also the first wrestler to perfect the “stranglehold” hoặc “hang hold”, thứ mà người hâm mộ MMA hiện đại gọi là máy chém. Lewis made his professional debut by winning a 64 giải đấu nam
Một giống én “Nông dân” Burns is famous today as the trainer of legendary wrestler Frank Gotch. “Nông dân” Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in the legitimate pro wrestling era despite being only 165 bảng. Trong 1891, Burns as the Iowa Heavyweight Champion took on J.C. Comstock, the Michigan Heavyweight Champion. J.C. Comstock was
On January 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, trước đây một vài đô vật người Mỹ thậm chí còn tự nhận mình là Nogert
In November 1923, St. Louis Star-Times reporter Billy Murphy interviewed St. Louis wrestling promoter John Contos. Murphy proposed to Contos that the era of dominant wrestlers like William Muldoon was over. Murphy spoke about the recent match between “World Champion” Hardneck Phillips and the game contender Webster O’Malley. Phillips successfully defended his championship by throwing O’Malley after 1 hour, 50
Ed “Strangler” 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
Vào ngày 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt for the World Title at Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Hackenschmidt was undefeated as a professional but had been World Champion for approximately 7 năm. Gotch was a year older but considered an up and comer. Fans and reporters covering the sport considered Gotch
Vào thứ ba, Diễu hành 22, 1910, Tiến sĩ. Benjamin lăn gặp Stanislaus Zbyszko trong một trận đấu vật hợp pháp. Đấu vật chuyên nghiệp sẽ chuyển từ cuộc thi hợp pháp để triển lãm tổ chức giữa 1910 và 1920. Tiến sĩ. Benjamin lăn tốt nghiệp từ Đại học Pennsylvania bằng cách chơi bóng đá chuyên nghiệp. Roller accepted an academic appointment in physiology where he assisted in the writing of a textbook. Tiến sĩ.