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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.
Mwen te fè yon dezyèm gade nan match sa a apre mwen fin koute entèvyou podcast Shut Up and Wrestle ak Mike Chapman., youn nan pi gwo ekspè sou Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman te pwopoze yon agiman konvenkan pou kwayans li ke tou de Earl Caddock vs. Match tit mondyal Joe Stecher yo te "lans" oswa konpetisyon lejitim. Apre revize kont yo nan
Sorakichi Matsuda te vwayaje nan peyi Etazini an reta 1883 yo kòmanse karyè pwofesyonèl lit li. Matsuda te gen entansyon aprann lit pwofesyonèl Ameriken epi retounen nan peyi l 'yo kòmanse pwòp pwomosyon lit li. Manadjè Matsuda a te fè reklamasyon sou fòmasyon li nan Japon, which could not be verified. Matsuda te antrene nan lit sumo ak pi popilè Isegahama ki estab men li te fè
Nan Madi, Jen 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
Nan samdi, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Angletè. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
When World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon retired in 1889, he hoped his protege Ernest Roeber would be recognized as the new champion. Sepandan, Muldoon won his title in Greco-Roman wrestling, which was the German-born Roeber’s expertise. Malerezman, the exploits of Martin “Kiltivatè” Burns and Evan “Strangler a” Lewis catapulted catch-as-catch-can wrestling into the dominant style. Roeber did have a
Ed “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. Nan 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Mondyal lour lit chanpyon Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Coliseum nan Jedi, Desanm 14, 1922 men match la te prèske te rele akòz dezakò sou seleksyon an nan yon abit. Li te sèlman apre lapriyè Bondye a St. Louis pwomotè Jan Contos ke tou de moun te dakò ak St. Louis
Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 from hated rival
Nan Madi, Desanm 12, 1916, local favorite, John “Tigerman nan Nebraska” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. Sepandan, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, lè