Autor: Ken Zimmerman Jr.

Em dezembro de 17, 1923, Jim Browning lutou uma luta rara em sua cidade natal, Verona, Missouri. Quatrocentos torcedores dos arredores lotaram o local para assistir à partida entre Browning e Clarence Jenkins, um lutador de Emporia, Kansas. Tanto Browning quanto Jenkins lutaram a maioria de suas lutas no Kansas durante 1923. Browning estava começando uma carreira que

Em Maio 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, Ohio. Ismail only toured the United States for six months in the early part of 1898. Ismail wrestled less than ten matches but left a path of destruction remembered to this day. Ismail made a powerful impression by easily defeating both Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Ismail also made a strong

John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled two of the most famous legitimate contests of the 1920s. Pesek ended two promotional wars by agreeing to “shoot” contests with Marin Plestina and Nat Pendelton. Em 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. Na quinta-feira, Setembro 14, 1916, Pesek wrestled another Nebraska wrestler, Chris Jordan. Fans and

Stanislaus Zbyszko toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis on May 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George