Ahli Sejarah Sukan Pertempuran dan Seniman Mempertahankan Diri
Sebelum penciptaan sistem wilayah di 1948, penganjur gusti pro berjuang sesama sendiri untuk mengawal kejohanan dunia. Mempromosikan juara dunia membawa kepada pintu yang lebih besar, jadi kebanyakan penganjur mahu mengawal kejuaraan. Pada tahun 1930-an, penganjur akan membuat perjanjian antara satu sama lain tetapi mereka selalunya sekejap. Apabila seorang promoter tersinggung, terfikir
Pada November 19, 1935, ahli gusti profesional Ray Steele bertemu peninju profesional Kingfish Levinsky dalam gusti campuran lawan tinju. Suruhanjaya Olahraga Negeri Missouri mencipta peraturan khas untuk perlawanan itu. Pesuruhjaya memutuskan pertarungan itu akan terdiri daripada pusingan tiga minit seperti perlawanan tinju. Pesuruhjaya membenarkan Levinsky untuk menumbuk walaupun dia berada di atas tikar. Steele boleh
Dalam 1899, Martin “Petani” Burns beralih kepada peranan ahli gusti sambilan dan jurulatih sepenuh masa. Salah seorang muridnya yang paling terkenal ialah Frank Gotch, yang Burns kalahkan seminggu selepas perlawanan ini. Burns adalah 38 tahun dan telah kehilangan Kejohanan Gusti Kelas Berat Amerika dua tahun sebelumnya. Burns menggabungkan kedua-dua peranan pada malam Disember yang sangat sibuk
Siapa ahli gusti profesional yang paling sah untuk bergusti di Amerika Syarikat? How do you determine it when wrestlers “bekerja” 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 dan 1915
William Hayes Shaw, yang bergelut sebagai Pat O'Shocker melalui kebanyakan kerjaya gustinya, mendapati dirinya dalam perhatian 1933. O'Shocker tidak mencari kemasyhuran seperti ini. Akhbar menyiarkan cerita tentang cara penganjur gusti cuba menggunakan O'Shocker dalam palang berganda yang dirancang. Joseph “Toots” Mondt menempah ahli gusti keluar dari New York dan sejajar dengannya
Dalam 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
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 pada 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. Oleh 1877,
Pada Julai 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.” Walaupun Georges Carpentier
In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou began wrestling as Jim Londos after several years as the gimmicky “Wrestling 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