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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
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
Profesionāli cīkstoņi mirst ringā reti, bet reizēm notiek. Uz 1936, 5,000 cīkstēšanās fani Vašingtonā, D.C. netīšām izsauca mirušu vīrieti Mike Romano vs. “Īru” Džeka Donovana spēle ceturtdien Grifitas stadionā, Jūnijs 25, 1936. 40 gadus vecais Romano nospēlēja Donovanu. 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. Līdz 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. Beidzot, Pesek did
During March 1910, Amerikas Savienoto Valstu ģenerālprokurors Padomes Bluffā, Aiova apsūdzēja Džonu C. Mabrajs (viņa īstā vārda versija, Mabry) un ducis apsūdzēto par pasta izmantošanu, lai profesionālajā boksā veiktu krāpšanos ar azartspēlēm, profesionālā cīkstēšanās, un profesionālas zirgu skriešanās sacīkstes. Mabry, mājlopu tirgotājs, kas dzīvo Kanzassitijā, Missouri, nodarbināja insaiderus boksā, cīkstēšanās, 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. Uz 2024 dollars, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Savas karjeras sākumā, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 and 1905. Laikā 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 mārciņas. Beell usually faced a
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. Janvārī 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Novembrī 1921, Džons “Nebraskas tīģeris” Peseks cīnījās likumīgā cīņā ar Marinu Plestīnu, lai atrisinātu reklāmas karu starp Džeku Kērliju un boksa popularizētāju Teksu Rikardu.. Peseks pārkāpa savainoto Plestina pārkāpumu, kurš nespēja sevi aizstāvēt. After the match, Rikards atgriezās boksā, kamēr Ņujorkas štata vieglatlētikas komisija aizliedza Pesekam cīkstēties Ņujorkā.
Uz 1919, John “Nebraskas tīģeris” Peseks atradās tādā pašā stāvoklī kā Marins Plestina. Dominējošais cīkstēšanās trests nedotu Pesekam maču ar kādu no “Lielais četrinieks” – Ērls Kaddoks, Džo Stečers, Un “Strangler” Vilka ķetna, un Vladeks Zbiško. Nevar nodrošināt maču ar Steheru, Smilšu cīkstēšanās ar Džimu Londosu Omahā, oktobrī Nebraskā 10,