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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.
Wladek Zbyszko’s legacy is often overshadowed by his brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Stanislaus, som var 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. Tyvärr, 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.
På Januari 10, 1910, Nyligen kom polska brottare Stanislaus Zbyszko tog på Charlie “The Kid” Cutler i en bästa två-out-of-tre faller match. Cutler hade varit en boxare i en trupp som drivs av John L. Sullivan innan övergången till brottning. Medan Cutler var extremt tufft, Stanislaus Zbyszko hade brottats sedan sin ungdom. Zbyszko would use these skills to overcome Cutler
På December 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
På måndag, Februari 7, 1887, Evan “Strangler” Lewis och “Little Demon” Joe Acton träffades på Battery D i Chicago, Illinois. Det skulle bli den första av flera utställningsmatcher mellan männen. De utförde dessa utställningar i de större städerna i Mellanvästern tidigt 1887. Som St. Paul match jag behandlade i ett tidigare inlägg, Lewis och Acton gick med på det
This post was formally a podcast broadcast in 2015. I denna episod, I discuss what Evan “Den strangleren” Lewis’ hold would be called today. Main Content – When I first heard of the stranglehold or “hang hold” of Evan “The Strangler” Lewis, it sounded like a guillotine choke. Emellertid, 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 (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Trio” brottning befordran och slog Munn för
Samma dag brottades Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko om den erkända versionen av World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i St.. Louis, Och “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 var en skrämmande konkurrent. Även om han inte var en stor man vid 5’09” och vägs 170 pounds, Lewis’ behärskning av inlagor gjorde honom en lika eller bättre i de flesta brottare av hans era. Jack Carkeek var en fantastiskt brottare men en match med Lewis nästan fick honom att gå i pension. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
På April 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” tändstickor. 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