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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
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. كانون الثاني 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.
<تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1919, جون “نبراسكا تايجرمان” 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” – إيرل كادوك, جو ستيتشر, و “خانق” رافعة الحجارة, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,
On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, نوفمبر 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mahmout recently to the United States to wrestle Frank Gotch for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. If Mahmout defeated Jenkins, Mahmout would prove to be a bona fide challenger to Gotch. Jenkins was the
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 صباحا إلى. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, ميسوري, on March 8, 1910. <تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. في البداية, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, ميسوري. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, ميسوري
يعتبر مؤرخو المصارعة إما إد "سترانجلر" لويس أو فرانك جوتش أعظم مصارع أمريكي محترف. بينما نعرف الكثير عن بداية مسيرة فرانك جوتش المهنية, نحن نعرف أقل بكثير عن الحياة المهنية المبكرة لإد "سترانجلر" لويس. تزعم مصادر مختلفة أن لويس تعلم المصارعة في الكرنفالات عندما كان عمره أربعة عشر عامًا فقط. رافعة الحجارة
خلال أوائل الثلاثينيات, أقوى المروجين في مصارعة المحترفين, جاك كيرلي, جوزيف "توتس" موندت, بول باوزر, ونفذ Tom Packs عرضيات مزدوجة على بعضهم البعض مما أضر بقوة السحب الإجمالية لمصارعيهم. خلال الحرب الترويجية, انضم جاك فايفر إلى جاك كيرلي و"توتس" موندت, الذي نفد من مدينة نيويورك. In late 1933, كيرلي و
لقد ألقيت نظرة ثانية على هذه المباراة بعد الاستماع إلى مقابلة برنامج Shut Up and Wrestle مع مايك تشابمان, أحد أبرز الخبراء في فرانك جوتش. طرح مايك تشابمان حجة مقنعة لاعتقاده بأن كلا من إيرل كادوك مقابل. كانت مباريات اللقب العالمي لـ Joe Stecher عبارة عن "جلسات تصوير" أو مسابقات مشروعة. وبعد مراجعة حسابات