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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.
میں 1899, مارٹن “کسان” 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
جو امریکہ میں کشتی لڑنے والا سب سے بڑا جائز پیشہ ور پہلوان ہے۔? How do you determine it when wrestlers “worked” 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 اور 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. یوسف “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with
میں 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, کرسٹوس تھیوفیلو نے کئی سالوں کے بعد جم لونڈوس کے طور پر کشتی شروع کی۔ “ریسلنگ پلاسٹر”. لنڈوس کو شاید یہ احساس نہیں تھا کہ نام کی تبدیلی ان کے لیے 1930 کی پیشہ ورانہ ریسلنگ میں باکس آفس کی سب سے بڑی کشش بننے کا پہلا قدم ہو گی۔. دوسرا مرحلہ سینٹ لوئس میں ایک اہم ریسلر کے طور پر ابھرنا تھا۔. لوئس. میں پیدا ہوا۔
On July 4, 1922, ایلن یوسٹیس نے ورلڈ ہیوی ویٹ ریسلنگ چیمپئن ایڈ میں اپنا شاٹ وصول کیا۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس. یوسٹیس, کینساس چیمپئن, کے ساتھ کوالیفائنگ میچ جیتا۔ “کسان” مارچ میں بیلی 1922 لیوس کے ساتھ میچ کے لیے کوالیفائی کرنے کے لیے. 31-سالہ یوسٹیس کی عمر اتنی ہی تھی۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس لیکن لیوس کہیں زیادہ تجربہ کار تھا۔. پر ڈیبیو کر رہا ہے۔ 14 عمر کے سال,
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
جلد میں 1915, Sam Rachmann promoted the New York International Wrestling Tournament with the intention of replacing retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Rachmann believed no one could defeat Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Rachmann’s handpicked successor to Gotch, in Greco-Roman wrestling. Rachmann’s challenge was catch-as-catch-can was the dominant wrestling style in America. To get around this challenge, Rachmann recruited international
میں 1922, future World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Jim Browning began his career in Kansas. Browning moved from his hometown of Verona, Missouri in 1921 to train for a professional wrestling career. Tom Law, the Wichita, Kansas promoter, oversaw Browning’s training. By May 1923, Browning was already in the main event at smaller shows. On an Augusta, Kansas card, Browning wrestled