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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.
No início de 1911, o público de wrestling considerou três homens a ser o maior desafio para o Campeão do Mundo Frank Gotch. O ex-campeão George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko e “O Terrível Turk” Yussif Mahmout queria a chance de bater Gotch. Gotch, que era bobo, 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, é por isso que ambos os promotores
Em dezembro de 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. Chefe Duas Penas entrou no
Na terça-feira, Janeiro 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: The Wrestler mais temido do século 19. Evan Lewis era um perito qualificado apresentação durante a era de wrestling profissional legítimo, embora ele tenha participado em algumas partidas premeditado. Em Janeiro de 1886, Evan Lewis used his dreaded stranglehold on Sorakichi Matsada. According to several newspapers, Lewis attempted to “estrangular Sorakichi para
Na segunda-feira, Dezembro 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis won the first of six World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships from Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. Um ano antes de este jogo, Stecher and Lewis met in a match lasting over three hours. Lewis made a mental error in
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” em St. Louis during the 1904 Feira Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
O destino de grande parte de São. Louis’ edifícios históricos provar o velho ditado imobiliário. É tudo sobre a localização, localização, localização. Se o edifício está no South St. Louis, ele tem uma melhor chance de ser salvo de um prédio na Zona Norte. The same could be said for buildings located in the center of the city except
Stanislaus Zbyszko nasceu Stanislaw Jan Cygankiewicz em abril 1, 1879 em Jodlow, Polônia, que fazia parte do Império Austro-Húngaro. Segundo a Wikipedia, ele escolheu o nome do anel Stanislaus Zbyszko porque era o nome de um cavaleiro polonês de ficção. Um artigo no Walla Walla, Jornal Washington, Do The Evening Statesman terça-feira, Fevereiro 8, 1910 edition, publicized Zbyszko’s university and