Depending on which source you turn to, the Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt rivalry is overflowing with anecdotes that often contradict each other with alleged eyewitnesses and firsthand accounts that are hard to prove.
When Gotch and Hackenschmidt first met on the night of April 3rd, 1908, at the Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago in front of 10,000 fans, it was the clash of the deceivingly powerful American farmboy versus the astonishing physical specimen forged in the old continent.