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Posts about Greco-Roman wrestling matches and other wrestling styles such as collar-and-elbow wrestling, side hold wrestling, Cornish wrestling, o.fl..
On February 26. 1914, Stanislaus Zbyszko beat Alex Aberg for the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Boston, Massachusetts. Zbyszko came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for Frank Gotch’s World Catch-as-Catch Can Championship. Wrestling insiders considered Gotch’s title the World Championship. Zbyszko could not beat Gotch in 1910. Before they had a rematch, Frank Gotch retired in
Í bardagaíþróttum, góður stór maður slær venjulega góðan lítinn mann. Ef þú ert frábær, þú getur oft bætt upp fyrir mikið stærðarmisræmi. Edwin Bibby varð aðeins 5’04” og vó 160 punda en sigraði marga stærri glímukappa á atvinnuglímuferli sínum. Bibby sigraði marga glímumenn þar á meðal risastóra þýska glímukappann William Heygster. Edwin Bibby var fær
The powerful William Muldoon was considered invincible as Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion. Aðeins einn maður alvarlega áskorun Muldoon á markaðsráðandi valdatíma hans. The 165-pund Clarence Whistler stöðugt gaf Muldoon ströngustu viðfangsefni hans. Muldoon and Whistler met on Thursday, Nóvember 1, 1883 in San Francisco, California í einn af nokkrum leikjum sínum. William Muldoon var næstum höfði hærri og vó
Joe Acton var einn besti glímumaður Englands á 19. öld. 151-pound Acton went through England’s middleweight ranks before plowing through the heavyweights. After beating the best England had to offer including Tom Cannon, Acton decided to test his abilities in the United States. Joe Acton settled in Philadelphia at Arthur Chamber’s Champions Rest during the summer months of
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Hann tryggði sér að lokum
Raunverulega, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. Rachman's mótið átti að hefjast á miðvikudaginn
Alex Aberg sigraði marga athyglisverða óvini á besta ári á ferli sínum í atvinnuglímu. Í 1915, Aberg keppti bæði í vor- og haustútgáfum New York International Wrestling Tournament. Keppti eingöngu í hans uppáhalds stíl grísk-rómverskrar glímu, Aberg sigraði Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko og Ed “Strangler” Lewis ásamt nokkrum sveinsglímumönnum.
Á föstudaginn, Maí 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, St. Louis, Missouri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 mínútur. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Nóvember 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
Paul Pons var Greco-Roman Glíma Champion Frakklands í 1890s. Hann vann mótið á Folies-Bergeres áður vann mót í Rússlandi í 1898. Þessir sigrar gerðu honum kleift að gera tilkall til heimsmeistaramótsins í grísk-rómverskri glímu. Pons eignfærð á þessari frægð með því að opna ræktina til að þjálfa wrestlers og sterkra manna. Pons’ sigurinn var sérstaklega merkilegur vegna