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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. V 1936, 5,000 wrestling fans in Washington, Enosmerno. inadvertently booed a dead man at the end of the Mike Romano vs. “Irish” Jack Donovan match at Griffith Stadium on Thursday, Junij 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. Jo 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. Sčasoma, Pesek did
During March 1910, generalni državni tožilec Združenih držav v Council Bluffs, Iowa je obtožila Johna C. Mabray (različica njegovega pravega imena, Mabry) in ducat obtožencev z uporabo pošte za goljufije pri igrah na srečo v profesionalnem boksu, profesionalna rokoborba, in profesionalne konjske dirke. Mabry, trgovec z živino, ki živi v Kansas Cityju, Missouri, zaposleni insajderji v boksu, rokoborba, in konj
Avgusta v zgodnjih jutranjih urah 5, 1933, štirje varni vlomilci so razbili okno v pivovarni Marshfield Brewing Company v Marshfieldu, Wisconsin. Vlomilci so s trezorja podrli številčnico in jo odstranili $1,550.00 v zveznih znamkah. V 2024 dollars, vlomilci ukradli $37,000.00. Isti vlomilci so uspešno odnesli še enega $1,000 v zveznih znamkah družbe Wausau Brewing Company
Na začetku svoje kariere, Fred Beell se je boril z Gusom »Americusom« Schoenleinom 1904 in 1905. Med 1904 match, Beell je zmagal v edinem padcu in tekmi. Schoenlein se je želel maščevati za ta poraz. In May 1905, Schoenleinov menedžer si je zagotovil povratno tekmo v Schoenleinovem rojstnem mestu Baltimoru, Maryland. Schoenlein je stal pet metrov, deset centimetrov visok in tehtan 210 funtov. Beell se je običajno soočil z
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. Januarja 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.
V 1919, John “Tigerman iz Nebraske” 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, Joe Stecher, In “Strangler” Lewis, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,