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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
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 میں 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. کی طرف سے 1877,
On July 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” اگرچہ جارج کارپینٹیئر
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,
I was recently honored to be a guest on The Martial Culture Podcast. Coach Rene Driefuss and Matt Peters were excellent hosts. I truly enjoyed my time on their podcast. We spoke about one of my books, Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt: The Matches That Made and Destroyed Legitimate American Professional Wrestling in particular. تاہم, we spoke in general about the history
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
مئی 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett
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