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Jim Londos developed into professional wrestling’s biggest box office star during the 1930s. Londos wrestled main events against Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Jim Browning at baseball stadiums. These matches drew crowds of more than 30,000 fans for the first time since the second Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt in 1911. When Londos wrestled in Greece, Londos drew crowds estimated to be at
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. У 1936, 5,000 wrestling fans in Washington, D.C. inadvertently booed a dead man at the end of the Mike Romano vs. “Irish” Jack Donovan match at Griffith Stadium on Thursday, Чэрвень 25, 1936. The 40-year-old Romano was putting Donovan over in a worked match. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. Па 1915, wrestlers worked their matches. Skilled lightweight wrestler Clarence Ecklund trained Pesek in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Pesek developed into a skilled hooker or submission wrestler. Pesek never liked working and wrestled contests in his early career. У рэшце рэшт, Pesek did
During March 1910, генеральны пракурор Злучаных Штатаў у Каунсіл-Блафс, Аёва абвінаваціла Джона К. Мабрэй (версія яго сапраўднага імя, Мабры) і дзясятак абвінавачаных у выкарыстанні пошты для махлярства з азартнымі гульнямі ў прафесійным боксе, прафесійная барацьба, і прафесійныя скачкі. Мабры, гандляр жывёлай, які жыве ў Канзас-Сіці, Місуры, занятых інсайдэраў у боксе, барацьба, і конь
Ранняй раніцай жніўня 5, 1933, чацвёра бяспечных рабаўнікоў разбілі акно ў піваварнай кампаніі Marshfield у Маршфілдзе, Wisconsin. Рабаўнікі збілі цыферблат з сейфа і вынеслі $1,550.00 у федэральных марках. У 2024 dollars, рабаўнікі скралі $37,000.00. Такія ж рабаўнікі ўдала захапілі яшчэ аднаго $1,000 у федэральных марках піваварнай кампаніі Wausau
У пачатку сваёй кар'еры, Фрэд Біл змагаўся з Гасам «Амерыкусам» Шэнлайнам 1904 і 1905. During the 1904 match, Біл выйграў адзінае падзенне і матч. Шенлайн хацеў адпомсціць за гэтую паразу. In May 1905, Менеджэр Шенлайна забяспечыў матч-рэванш у родным горадзе Шенлайна ў Балтыморы, Мэрыленд. Шонлайн стаяў на пяці футах, дзесяць цаляў ростам і вагай 210 фунты. Бэл звычайна сутыкаўся з а
In the fall of 1921, Jack Curley and Tex Rickard engaged in a promotional feud that started in professional boxing but spread to professional wrestling. Curley and Rickard settled their feud in a legitimate contest in November 1921. Curley selected John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek to act for him against Rickard’s wrestler Marin Plestina. Before Curley and Rickard could arrange
If he had been bigger, Fred Beell would have been a dominant heavyweight in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Instead, larger opponents often defeated Beell only because the opponent outweighed Beell by thirty to fifty pounds. On the rare occasions that Beell wrestled a middleweight, Beell crushed his opponent. Студзеня 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled a legitimate contest with Marin Plestina to settle a promotional war between Jack Curley and boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled an injured Plestina, who was helpless to defend himself. After the match, Rickard returned to boxing while the New York State Athletic Commission banned Pesek from wrestling in New York.
У 1919, Джон “Небраскі тыгр” Pesek found himself in the same position as Marin Plestina. The dominant wrestling trust would not give Pesek a match with one of the “Big Four” – Earl Caddock, Джо Стэчэр, І “Душыцель” Люіс, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,