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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.
Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his
In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns
By the end of the 1910s, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, usually as a result of a double cross, fans would see an actual contest or “shoot” match between the wrestlers. One of these matches occurred in late 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, primarily a boxing promoter, and Jack
This week’s post is to finish up the story of the double cross involving Dick Shikat and Danno O’Mahony. The origins for the double cross actually began in a match with Ed “Strangler” Lewis in Madison Square Garden on June 9, 1932. While this match was a prearranged exhibition, the wrestlers had been in discussion about Lewis dropping the belt
April 12, 1887 udgave af St. Paul Daily Globe gennemført en historie om kampen mellem frygtede professionelle wrestlere, Evan “Strangler” Lewis og “Lille Demon” Joe Acton. Andre brydere frygtede Lewis’ evne som indsendelse ekspert især hans evner med kvælertag. Joe Acton, mens undermålere på 150 pounds, var en glubsk wrestler. The bout should have been
På marts 22, 1919, Ed “Strangler” Lewis mødte Wladek Zbyszko om den ledige World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. I en overraskende sejr, Zbyszko besejrede Lewis at gøre krav på titlen. Desværre for Wladek Zbyszko, han ville kun have en kop kaffe med båndet. En måned eller to senere, Zbyszko mistede titlen til Joe Stetcher. This match was most likely
Jeg skriver dette indlæg for at rette op på et tidligere indlæg, jeg skrev om dobbeltkryds i professionel brydning. Jeg troede oprindeligt, at dobbeltkryds sluttede efter Stanislaus Zybszko dobbeltkrydsede Gold Dust Trio. Zbyszko, efter at have accepteret at tabe til Munn, besejrede ham i det, der blev til en legitim konkurrence om World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Ed “Strangler” Lewis, der droppede
Martin “Farmer” Burns var en professionel catch-as-catch kan wrestler samt brydning og fysisk kulturel træner. blev betragtet som en af de, blev betragtet som en af de, he is more famous as a wrestling trainer. Martin “Farmer” Burns blev født februar 15, 1861 i Cedar County, Iowa. Both then and now, wrestling is in an Iowan’s blood.
Jeg skrev dette indlæg på grund af en samtale, jeg var tagget i på Twitter om 1911 omkamp mellem Frank Gotch og Georg Hackenschmidt til World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Jim Cornette, der udover at være en af de bedste ledere inden for professionel wrestling også er en kendt pro wrestling-historiker, talte om dobbeltkrydset i den anden Gotch-Hack-kamp
When “The Russian Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, kendt som “Hack” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the world title in Greco-Roman