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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. Fil 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, Ġunju 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. Billi 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. Eventwalment, Pesek did
During March 1910, l-Avukat Ġenerali tal-Istati Uniti fil-Kunsill Bluffs, Iowa akkuża lil John C. Mabray (verżjoni tal-isem attwali tiegħu, Mabry) u tużżana akkużati bl-użu tal-posta biex iwettqu frodi tal-logħob tal-azzard fil-boxing professjonali, lotta professjonali, u tlielaq taż-żwiemel professjonali. Mabry, negozjant tal-bhejjem li jgħix f’Kansas City, Missouri, impjegati insiders fil-boxing, lotta, u żiemel
Fis-sigħat ta’ filgħodu kmieni ta’ Awwissu 5, 1933, erba’ ħallelin sikuri kissru tieqa fil-Marshfield Brewing Company f’Marshfield, Wisconsin. Il-ħallelin ħallew dial mis-safe u neħħew $1,550.00 f’bolli federali. Fil 2024 dollars, il-burglars serqu fuq $37,000.00. L-istess burglars ħadu ieħor b'suċċess $1,000 f’bolol federali mill-Wausau Brewing Company
Kmieni fil-karriera tiegħu, Fred Beell ġġieled lil Gus "Americus" Schoenlein fi 1904 u 1905. Matul il- 1904 match, Beell rebaħ l-unika waqgħa u logħba. Schoenlein ried jivvendika din it-telfa. F'Mejju 1905, Il-maniġer ta 'Schoenlein assigura rematch fil-belt twelid ta' Schoenlein ta 'Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein kien qiegħed ħames piedi, tul għaxar pulzieri u miżun 210 liri. Beell normalment iffaċċjat a
Fil-ħarifa ta 1921, Jack Curley u Tex Rickard impenjaw ruħhom f'fewd promozzjonali li beda fil-boxing professjonali iżda nfirex għal lotta professjonali. Curley u Rickard solvew il-fewd tagħhom f'kompetizzjoni leġittima f'Novembru 1921. Curley għażel lil John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek biex jaġixxi għalih kontra l-wrestler ta' Rickard Marin Plestina. Qabel ma Curley u Rickard setgħu jirranġaw
Kieku kien akbar, Fred Beell kien ikun piż tqil dominanti fl-ewwel deċennju tas-Seklu Għoxrin. Instead, avversarji akbar spiss għelbu lil Beell biss għax l-avversarju kien jegħleb lil Beell bi tletin sa ħamsin lira.. Fl-okkażjonijiet rari li Beell lilha piż medju, Beell għaffeġ lill-avversarju tiegħu. Fuq Jannar 13, 1905, Beell ġġieled lil H.P. Hansen fil
During November 1921, John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ġġieled kompetizzjoni leġittima ma' Marin Plestina biex isolvi gwerra promozzjonali bejn Jack Curley u l-promotur tal-boxing Tex Rickard. Pesek fawl fuq Plestina mweġġa’, li kien bla sahha biex jiddefendi lilu nnifsu. After the match, Rickard irritorna għall-boxing filwaqt li l-Kummissjoni tal-Atletika tal-Istat ta’ New York ipprojbixxa lil Pesek milli jiġġieled fi New York.
Fil 1919, John “It-Tigerman ta' Nebraska” Pesek sab ruħu fl-istess pożizzjoni ta’ Marin Plestina. It-trust dominanti tal-lotta ma kienx jagħti lil Pesek taqbila ma’ wieħed mill- “Erbgħa Kbar” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, u Wladek Zbyszko. Ma tistax tassigura partita ma' Stecher, Sand wrestled Jim Londos f'Omaha, Nebraska f'Ottubru 10,