McLaughlin Wrestles Bauer

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James Hiram McLaughlin holds the distinction of being the first American professional wrestler. While people wrestled professionally before McLaughlin, he was the first to earn a professional living from wrestling. McLaughlin began wrestling professionally in 1860 në 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. Nga 1877,

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Jim Londos Makes His Mark

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In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou began wrestling as Jim Londos after several years as the gimmickyWrestling 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

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Eustace Wrestles The Champ

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Në korrik 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 “Fermer” 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 vjeç,

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Pro Wrestling’s Bad Reputation

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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

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Renato Gardini Arrives in 1915

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In early 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

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Fushatat Browning në Kansas

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Në 1922, Kampioni i ardhshëm botëror i mundjes në peshën e rëndë Jim Browning e filloi karrierën e tij në Kansas. Browning u shpërngul nga vendlindja e tij, Verona, Missouri in 1921 për t'u stërvitur për një karrierë profesionale në mundje. Tom Law, Wichita, Promotor i Kansasit, mbikëqyri stërvitjen e Browning. By May 1923, Browning ishte tashmë në eventin kryesor në shfaqjet më të vogla. Në një Augusta, Karta e Kansasit, Browning luftoi

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