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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
El lunes, Junio 25, 1934, current World Champion Jim Browning defended his world title against Jim Londos. Browning dropped the title to Londos in a match to end the promotional war which led to the double-crosses of the early 1930s. 20,000 fans crowded into Madison Square Garden to see the match leading to a $40,000 gate. Jack Curley enjoyed a
En enero 30, 1930, Gus Sonnenberg defended his AWA World Title, based in the Boston promotion of Paul Bowser, in Boston Arena against former world champion Joe Stecher. Two minutes of film survived from the hour-long match. Gus Sonnenberg traded on his celebrity as a professional football player to become a wrestling star. Sonnenberg helped the Providence Steam Roller win
On Memorial Day, Mayo 30, 1925, Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko in a worked match to reclaim the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that Stecher had lost in December 1920. Stecher was part of a conspiracy that paid Stanislaus Zbyszko to double-cross Wayne “Big” Munn in April 1925. Zbyszko defeated Munn legitimately in one of professional wrestling’s most famous double-crosses. As
El jueves, Julio 9, 1925, Ed “Strangler” Lewis made one of the early defenses of his version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis wrestled Howard Cantonwine in front of 5,000 fans at McNulty Park. After Stanislaus Zbyszko double-crossed Sandow’s and Lewis’ promotional group by defeating Wayne “Big” Munn legitimately, both Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis
Jim Londos se convirtió en la mayor estrella de taquilla de la lucha libre profesional durante la década de 1930.. Londos luchó en eventos principales contra Ed “Strangler” Lewis y Jim Browning en estadios de béisbol.. Estos partidos atrajeron a multitudes de más de 30,000 fans por primera vez desde el segundo Gotch vs.. Hackenschmidt en 1911. Cuando Londos luchó en Grecia, Londres atrajo a multitudes estimadas en
Que los luchadores profesionales mueran en el ring es raro, pero ocurre ocasionalmente.. In 1936, 5,000 fanáticos de la lucha libre en Washington, D.C.. sin querer abucheó a un hombre muerto al final del Mike Romano vs. Partido “irlandés” de Jack Donovan en el Griffith Stadium el jueves, Junio 25, 1936. Romano, de 40 años, estaba poniendo a Donovan en un partido trabajado. Los periódicos informaron erróneamente que Romano
John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek comenzó a luchar profesionalmente en 1915, pero Pesek era más adecuado para 1885 ring de lucha libre profesional. Por 1915, Los luchadores trabajaron sus combates.. El hábil luchador de peso ligero Clarence Ecklund entrenó a Pesek en la lucha libre.. Pesek se convirtió en una hábil prostituta o luchadora de sumisión.. A Pesek nunca le gustó trabajar y luchar en concursos al principio de su carrera.. Eventualmente, arena lo hizo
During March 1910, el Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos en Council Bluffs, Iowa acusó a John C.. Mabray (una versión de su nombre real, mabry) y una docena de acusados de utilizar el correo para cometer fraude en juegos de azar en el boxeo profesional, lucha libre profesional, y carreras de caballos profesionales. mabry, un comerciante de ganado que vive en Kansas City, Misuri, empleados internos en el boxeo, lucha, and horse
In the early morning hours of August 5, 1933, four safe burglars broke a window at the Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The burglars knocked a dial off the safe and removed $1,550.00 in federal stamps. In 2024 dólares, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Al principio de su carrera, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 y 1905. During the 1904 match, Beell won the only fall and match. Schoenlein wanted to avenge this defeat. In May 1905, Schoenlein’s manager secured a rematch in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein stood five feet, ten inches tall and weighed 210 libras. Beell usually faced a