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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.
Dalam 1899, Martin “Petani” Burns beralih kepada peranan ahli gusti sambilan dan jurulatih sepenuh masa. Salah seorang muridnya yang paling terkenal ialah Frank Gotch, yang Burns kalahkan seminggu selepas perlawanan ini. Burns adalah 38 tahun dan telah kehilangan Kejohanan Gusti Kelas Berat Amerika dua tahun sebelumnya. Burns menggabungkan kedua-dua peranan pada malam Disember yang sangat sibuk
Siapa ahli gusti profesional yang paling sah untuk bergusti di Amerika Syarikat? How do you determine it when wrestlers “bekerja” 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 dan 1915
William Hayes Shaw, yang bergelut sebagai Pat O'Shocker melalui kebanyakan kerjaya gustinya, mendapati dirinya dalam perhatian 1933. O'Shocker tidak mencari kemasyhuran seperti ini. Akhbar menyiarkan cerita tentang cara penganjur gusti cuba menggunakan O'Shocker dalam palang berganda yang dirancang. Joseph “Toots” Mondt menempah ahli gusti keluar dari New York dan sejajar dengannya
Dalam 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
I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. While Griffin has insider knowledge due to his time in the Buffalo promotional office in the 1930s, he wrote the book for the purpose of revenge against the promoters who fired him. The book contains factual information mixed in with interesting
In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou began wrestling as Jim Londos after several years as the gimmicky “Wrestling Plasterer”. Londos probably didn’t realize that the name change would be the first step into him becoming the biggest box office attraction in 1930s professional wrestling. The second step was his emergence as a main event wrestler in St. Louis. Born in
Pada Julai 4, 1922, Alan Eustace received his shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Eustace, the Kansas Champion, won a qualifying match with “Petani” Bailey in March 1922 to qualify for the match with Lewis. 31-year-old Eustace was the same age as “Strangler” Lewis but Lewis was far more experienced. Debuting at 14 tahun,
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, many, if not most, of the matches were legitimate contest prior to 1915. Promoters and wrestlers went to great
In early 1915, Sam Rachmann mempromosikan Kejohanan Gusti Antarabangsa New York dengan niat untuk menggantikan Juara Gusti Heavyweight Dunia yang telah bersara, Frank Gotch. Rachmann percaya tiada siapa yang boleh mengalahkan Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Pengganti pilihan Rachmann kepada Gotch, dalam gusti Greco-Rom. Cabaran Rachmann ialah catch-as-catch-can adalah gaya gusti yang dominan di Amerika. Untuk mengharungi cabaran ini, Rachmann merekrut antarabangsa
Dalam 1922, Bakal Juara Gusti Kelas Berat Dunia Jim Browning memulakan kerjayanya di Kansas. Browning berpindah dari kampung halamannya di Verona, Missouri in 1921 untuk berlatih untuk kerjaya gusti profesional. Tom Law, Wichita, Penganjur Kansas, menyelia latihan Browning. By May 1923, Browning telah pun berada dalam acara utama di pertunjukan yang lebih kecil. Pada Augusta, kad Kansas, Browning bergusti