布朗宁击败詹金斯

三月 6, 2023 小肯·齐默尔曼. 职业摔跤

十二月 17, 1923, 吉姆布朗宁在他的家乡维罗纳进行了一场罕见的比赛, 密苏里州. 来自周边地区的四百名球迷涌入场内观看布朗宁与克拉伦斯詹金斯的比赛, 来自恩波里亚的摔跤手, Kansas.

布朗宁和詹金斯在堪萨斯州进行了大部分比赛 1923. Browning was starting a career that would see Browning claim a version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the early 1930s.

Jim Browning in his prime (公共领域)

Jenkins never left Kansas. Jenkins eventually joined the Emporia Kansas Police Department and wrestled only part-time for the remainder of the 1920s. Jenkins eventually rose to the rank of Assistant Chief in charge of the night shift.

In December 1923, Browning was a 20-year-old wrestling prodigy, while Jenkins was a 29-year-old solid journeyman. The men wrestled evenly for the first fifty-five minutes until Browning secured a body scissors for the first pinfall.

After the intermission, Jenkins said he was unable to continue due to broken ribs. Jenkins returned to Emporia for the holidays, while Browning stayed in Verona. Their careers also travelled in different directions.

Jim Browning travelled across the United States and Canada wrestling for every active promoter. Browning claimed his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1933. When Joseph “Toots” Mondt pulled off the double-cross of Jim Londos, Mondt put the title on Browning for safekeeping a year later.

Clarence Jenkins remained in Kansas, where he worked for the Emporia Kansas Police Department until he passed away at only 48-years-old after an illness of one month. Jenkins wrestled Ed “Strangler” Lewis in 1927 but primarily wrestled local Kansas wrestlers during the 1920s. Jenkins retired from the ring permanently in 1932.