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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.
Eta “Strangler” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, which Lewis started using as promoters and wrestlers transitioned professional wrestling to a prearranged or “worked” exhibition. Lewis originally used the front face lock or guillotine choke. Lewis’ namesake Evan “Strangler” Lewis made the front face lock or
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Azkenean ziurtatu zuen
Benetan, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. Rachmanen txapelketa asteazkenean hasiko zen
Martin “Baserritarrak” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Hala ere, Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. Urtean 1893, Burns was still
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. He began wrestling when the pro game was still an actual competition. He continued to be successful after the game changed to worked (prearranged) matches. Izan ere, he participated in a shoot contest, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
Eta “Strangler” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. Urtean 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Fred Beell-ek profesionalki borrokatu zuen 1900 arte 1919. Martinen aurka izandako garaipen batzuengatik ospe mitikoa garatu ondoren “Baserritarrak” Erredurak, Dan McLeod eta Frank Gotch, Beell hurbildu ahala erretiratu zen 43 urte. Borroka osteko bere ibilbideak ustekabeko heriotza ekarriko zion at 57. Fred Beell-ek borrokalari profesional konpetente bat izateko aukera luzeak gainditu zituen
Frank Gotch was famous for defeating George Hackenschmidt, munduko txapelduna Wrestler eta weightlifter in 1908 and the 1911 rematch. Gotch ospatu izenburua bost urtez eta comers guztiak garaitu. Urtetik nahiko gazte at 35, Gotch erretiroa erabaki. Bere azken partidurako, he would take on another famous European wrestler and weightlifter, George Lurich. George Lurich
Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel did take part in several legitimate contests with Japanese jujitsu practitioners. Erabili zuen
Urtearen bukaeran 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko Estatu Batuetara bidaiatu World Heavyweight Borroka txapelduna Frank Gotch desafio. Bilera Gotch Aurretik, Zbyszko lehen zatian zehar bira bat egin zuen Estatu Batuetan eta battled tokiko borrokalari asko 1910. Zbyszko bidaiatzeko 37,000 mila. Bere bira Early, Zbyszko ezagutu Frank Gotch urritasuna partidu batean. Zbyszko garaitu Gotch, nor zen