Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
W czwartek, Styczeń 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins obronił tytuł American Wrestling Championship przeciwko wschodzącemu zapaśnikowi z Iowa. Po pierwszym upadku, kibice zdali sobie sprawę, że był to najcięższy mecz w karierze Franka Alvina Gotcha, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins pokonał Gotcha
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Listopad 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
In January 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Dusiciel” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
In late 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Rolnik” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Jednak, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Przez 1902, George
Na sierpień 26, 1886, Evan “Dusiciel” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Przynajmniej tak początkowo myślałem i większość historyków cytowała. Nowoczesny
W sobotę, Listopad 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 protokół. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem był opętany
Na sierpień 2, 1947, Maks M. King Productions wypuściło Killer Dill (1947), film kryminalny, w którym zawodowy zapaśnik Mike Mazurki gra „Little Joe”, pomocnik grający po obu stronach waśni gangów. Stuart Erwin wciela się w Johnny’ego „Killera” Dilla, projektantka bielizny i sprzedawczyni, którego ludzie biorą za gangstera. Po przypadkowym zaangażowaniu się w wojnę gangów, jego
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the
Willard “Dziki Bill” Longson urodził się w Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 8, 1906 ale większość swojego dorosłego życia spędził w St.. Louis, Missouri. Po rozpoczęciu kariery jako zawodowy zapaśnik w 1931, Longson znalazł pracę dla Tom Packs w St. Louis. Tak naprawdę nigdy nie wyjechał, ponieważ do końca był to jego główna baza wypadowa