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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.
Fl-1910s, Il-lotta professjonali Amerikana mċaqalqa b'mod permanenti minn kompetizzjonijiet ta' lotta leġittimi għal wirjiet rranġati minn qabel. Interess tal-partitarji, kontroll tal-promotur u inqas xedd u kedd fuq il-wrestlers kollha kellhom rwol f'din it-tranżizzjoni. Oħra li tkellem anqas dwar pressjoni kienet barra mill-isport innifsu. Qabel is-Seklu 20, il-boxing professjonali kien illegali fl-Istati Uniti. Knuckle vojta
RKO Pictures ressqet il Dick Tracy komiks għall-big screen fuq Diċembru 1, 1945. Filwaqt li l-film huwa definittivament “B” film maħsub li jkun l-ewwel fuq il-kont doppju, xorta kien ikun 'interess għall-ħafna fannijiet tal-comic popolari. Chester Gould created the strip in October 1931 for the Detroit
Earl Caddock had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock lilha biss professjonalment sakemm 1922. Madankollu, kien ikun rikonoxxut bħala champion tad-dinja wara li f’April għeleb lil Joe Stecher 1917. Caddock jitlef it-titlu lura
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Farmer” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 liri. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg ġġieled fih
“Don’t break my leg!” As the two muscular men struggled in the center of the ring, the man on top continued to work on the downed man’s legs. Again, the man on bottom yelled, “Please don’t break my leg!” Frank Gotch ħares lejn ir-rivali tiegħu George Hackenschmidt, who was writhing in obvious pain. Despite a severe knee injury, Hackenschmidt
At the beginning of 1911, the wrestling public considered three men to be the greatest challenge to reigning World Champion Frank Gotch. Former champion George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko and “The Terrible Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, decided to take some of the starch out of his challengers by matching them up
An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, hu għalhekk li ż-żewġ promoturi
Fuq Diċembru 23, 1903, Frank Gotch traveled to Bellingham, Washington to take on a 6’05”, 215 pound Native American wrestler from Montana. Wrestling fans in the area considered Chief Two Feathers to be unbeatable. Frank Gotch was not impressed with his reputation but he gave Gotch the most uncomfortable 15 minutes of his young career. Kap Żewġ Rix daħlu fil-
Nhar it-Tlieta, Jannar 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
I recently finished Evan “The Strangler” Lewis: Il Wrestler aktar biża 'ta' l-Seklu 19. Evan Lewis kien espert tas-sengħa sottomissjoni matul l-era leġittimu lotta professjonali għalkemm huwa ma jieħu sehem fil koppja prestabbiliti logħbiet. In January 1886, Evan Lewis used his dreaded stranglehold on Sorakichi Matsada. According to several newspapers, Lewis attempted to “strangle Sorakichi biex