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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
Nan 1919, John “Tigerman nan Nebraska” Pesek te twouve li nan menm pozisyon ak Marin Plestina. Konfyans nan lit dominan pa ta bay Pesek yon match ak youn nan yo “Gwo Kat” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, ak Wladek Zbyszko. Pa kapab asire yon match ak Stecher, Sand te lite Jim Londos nan Omaha, Nebraska nan mwa Oktòb 10,
Sou Jou Aksyon de Gras nan Amerik la, Thursday, Novanm 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout te lite ak ansyen chanpyon lit pwa lou Ameriken Tom Jenkins nan Madison Square Garden nan vil Nouyòk.. Mahmout dènyèman te ale Ozetazini pou lite Frank Gotch pou chanpyona mondyal lit pwa lou.. Si Mahmout te bat Jenkins, Mahmout ta pwouve ke li se yon defi bon konfyans nan Gotch. Jenkins te la
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. Nan 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Initially, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Istoryen lit konsidere swa Ed "Strangler" Lewis oswa Frank Gotch kòm pi gwo littè pwofesyonèl Ameriken an.. Pandan ke nou konnen byen yon ti jan sou karyè a byen bonè nan Frank Gotch, nou konnen anpil mwens sou karyè Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Divès sous reklame Lewis te aprann trape-tan-trape-ka lit nan kanaval yo lè li te sèlman katòz ane.. Lewis
Pandan kòmansman ane 1930 yo, pwomotè ki pi pwisan nan lit pwofesyonèl, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Pòl Bowser, ak Tom Packs egzekite doub-kwa youn sou lòt blese pouvwa a desen an jeneral nan wrèstle yo. Pandan lagè pwomosyonèl la, Jack Pfefer aliman tèt li ak Jack Curley ak "Toots" Mondt, ki te kouri soti nan vil Nouyòk. Nan fen 1933, Curley ak
Mwen te fè yon dezyèm gade nan match sa a apre mwen fin koute entèvyou podcast Shut Up and Wrestle ak Mike Chapman., youn nan pi gwo ekspè sou Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman te pwopoze yon agiman konvenkan pou kwayans li ke tou de Earl Caddock vs. Match tit mondyal Joe Stecher yo te "lans" oswa konpetisyon lejitim. Apre revize kont yo nan
Nan Madi, Jen 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
Nan samdi, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, Angletè. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Ed “Strangler” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. Nan 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,