Charley Olson Beats Russian

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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

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Burns Denies Association with Stecher

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In early 1916, Một giống én “Nông dân” Bỏng, 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

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Pesek Palm Strikes Rickard from Wrestling

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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

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Ed Lewis Bests Dick Shikat

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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 EdStranglerLewis 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

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Đồ dùng móc đá lên cao “Triumphs” in Fake Match

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The April 12, 1887 phiên bản của St. Paul Daily Globe carried a story about the bout between feared professional wrestlers, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Little Demon” Joe Acton. Other wrestlers feared Lewis’ ability as a submission expert particularly his abilities with the stranglehold. Joe Acton, while undersized at 150 bảng, was a ferocious wrestler. The bout should have been

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Wladek Zbyszko Beats Strangler for Title

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Vào ngày 22, 1919, EdStrangler” Lewis gặp Wladek Zbyszko cho World Heavyweight Championship Wrestling trống. Trong một chiến thắng bất ngờ, Zbyszko đánh bại Lewis tuyên bố danh hiệu. Thật không may cho Wladek Zbyszko, anh ta cũng chỉ có một tách cà phê với các vành đai. Một hoặc hai tháng sau, Zbyszko mất đai vào tay Joe Stetcher. This match was most likely

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Shikat Surprises O’Mahony and Promoters

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I’m writing this post to correct an earlier post I wrote about double crosses in professional wrestling. I originally thought double crosses ended after Stanislaus Zybszko double crossed the Gold Dust Trio. Zbyszko, after agreeing to lose to Munn, defeated him in what turned into a legitimate contest for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. EdStrangler” Đồ dùng móc đá lên cao, who dropped the

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Một giống én “Nông dân” Bỏng

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Một giống én “Nông dân” Bỏng là một nắm bắt như-bắt chuyên nghiệp có thể đô vật cũng như đấu vật và huấn luyện viên văn hóa vật thể. Despite great success as a professional wrestler, even winning the American Heavyweight Championship, he is more famous as a wrestling trainer. Một giống én “Nông dân” Burns was born February 15, 1861 ở Cedar County, Iowa. Cả hai sau đó và bây giờ, đấu vật là trong máu của một Iowan.

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Thứ hai Gotch-Hack trận đấu

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I wrote this post due to a conversation I was tagged in on Twitter about the 1911 rematch between Frank Gotch and Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Jim Cornette, who besides being one of the best managers in professional wrestling is also a noted pro wrestling historian, talked about the double cross in the second Gotch-Hack match

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Hack Accuses Americans of Faking

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Khi “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, được gọi là “Thuê” 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

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