Tag: Zápas chyť ako chyť

Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, ktorý bol 12 years older, posed the last real threat to Frank Gotch’s World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Wladek Zbyszko was a skilled wrestler in his own right. Bohužiaľ, he didn’t arrive in the United States until 1914, when most wrestling matches were prearranged. Wladek had proved his bona

I’ve frequently found the biggest challenge in researching early professional wrestling is separating fact from fiction. Even when the wrestlers competed in legitimate matches, they often inflated outcomes, built up apocryphal folklore around their victories and made up fanciful tales to explain away their losses. Professional wrestling sprang from the carnivals and retained the promotional instincts of this art. St.

Decembra 16, 1917, Frank Alvin Gotch lost a three week battle with uremic poisoning. Doctors attempted to keep his kidneys going through an operation in Chicago but it provided only temporary relief. Gotch intended to travel to Hot Springs, Arkansas to try and restore his health. The operation ended this hope. Gotch spent the last couple weeks only able

V pondelok, Február 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Malý Demon” Joe Acton met at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. It would be the first of several exhibition bouts between the men. They performed these exhibitions in the larger Midwestern cities in early 1887. Like the St. Paul match I covered in an earlier post, Lewis and Acton agreed to

This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. V tejto epizóde, I discuss what Evan “Strangler” Lewis’ hold would be called today. Hlavný obsah – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. Však, several sources I checked described it as a rear naked choke. Lewis

Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (nie predstavený,,en,profesionálny wrestling zápasy v Spojených štátoch,,en,Jednalo sa o natáčaní alebo legitímne zápas, pretože Zbyszko double prekročil,,en,propagácie wrestling a poraziť Munn,,en,Hľadal som informácie o mojej prastrýko Francis,,en,sobáš s mojím prateta Rosemary Kalt,,en,To, čo som zistil, bol neočakávaný genealógia poklad,,en,obraz v júli,,en,Louis Star-Times z mojich skvelých starých rodičov a,,en,Mosblech deti,,en,Nikdy som nevidel obraz,,en,Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company vydala prvý z filmov Inšpektor Hornleigh,,en,Inšpektor Hornleigh je Scotland Yard inšpektor pri plnení jej vyšetrovaniach seržantom Bingham,,en,Gordon Harker hral Hornleigh,,en,zatiaľ čo Alastair Sim poskytuje komickú scénu ako seržant Bingham,,en,Inšpektor Hornleigh začína objavom zavraždených,,en,Jenks slúžil St,,en) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” propagácia wrestlingu a porazte Munna

V ten istý deň Joe Stecher zápasil so Stanislausom Zbyszkom o uznávanú verziu majstrovstiev sveta v zápasení ťažkej váhy v St.. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and

Evan “Strangler” Lewis bol desivý konkurent. Hoci on nebol veľký muž na 5’09” a zváži 170 libier, Lewis’ zvládnutie podanie robil jemu rovnocenné alebo lepšie z väčšiny zápasníkov jeho éry. Jack Carkeek bol skvelý zápasník, ale jeden zápas s Lewisom takmer spôsobila, že do dôchodku. Lewis’ povesť silne súvisela s jeho obávaným

Dňa 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” matches. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling