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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.
En 1899, Martin “Agricultores” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in
Quen é o maior loitador profesional lexítimo para loitar nos Estados Unidos? How do you determine it when wrestlers “Traballou” or cooperated with each other in matches since the sports emergence in the 1860s? . I examined the records and stories around the American, British, Polish, and Turkish wrestlers, who wrestled in the United States between 1870 e 1915
William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
En 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was
Xa escribín no pasado que Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce de Marcus Griffin é unha fonte problemática. Aínda que Griffin ten coñecementos privilexiados debido ao seu tempo na oficina de promoción de Buffalo na década de 1930, escribiu o libro co propósito de vingarse contra os promotores que o despediron. O libro contén información factual mesturada con interesante
In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou comezou a loitar como Jim Londos despois de varios anos como gimmicky “Xeseiro de loita libre”. Londos probablemente non se decatou de que o cambio de nome sería o primeiro paso para que se convertese na maior atracción de taquilla da loita libre profesional dos anos 30.. O segundo paso foi a súa aparición como loitador principal en St. Louis. Nacido en
En xullo de 4, 1922, Alan Eustace recibiu o seu tiro no World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis. Eustaquio, o campión de Kansas, gañou un partido de clasificación con “Agricultores” Bailey en marzo 1922 para clasificarse para o partido con Lewis. 31-Eustace de anos tiña a mesma idade que “Estrangulador” Lewis pero Lewis era moito máis experimentado. Debutando ás 14 anos de idade,
Since its emergence as a spectator sport in the second half of the 19th Century, promoters and wrestlers were under a cloud of suspicion that they were working their matches. While professional wrestling would eventually consist almost exclusively of staged exhibitions, moitas, if not most, of the matches were legitimate contest prior to 1915. Promoters and wrestlers went to great
A principios de 1915, Sam Rachmann promoveu o Torneo Internacional de Loita de Nova York coa intención de substituír o retirado campión mundial de loita libre Frank Gotch.. Rachmann cría que ninguén podía derrotar a Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, O sucesor de Gotch escollido por Rachmann, na loita grecorromana. O desafío de Rachmann era catch-as-catch-can era o estilo de loita dominante en América. Para sortear este reto, Rachmann recrutou internacional
En 1922, o futuro campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado Jim Browning comezou a súa carreira en Kansas. Browning mudouse da súa cidade natal de Verona, Missouri en 1921 para adestrar para unha carreira profesional de loita libre. Tom Law, a Wichita, promotor de Kansas, supervisou o adestramento de Browning. By May 1923, Browning xa estaba no evento principal en concertos máis pequenos. Nunha Augusta, Tarxeta de Kansas, Browning loitou