Mahmout Beats Jenkins in Straight Falls

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On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, November 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 skulle vise seg å være en i god tro utfordrer til Gotch. Jenkins var

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Jack Claybournes Missouri-røtter

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Jack Claybourne, en av de tidligste afroamerikanere, profesjonelle brytere, ble født Elmer Claybourn i Mexico, Missouri, på Mars 8, 1910. I 1910, Mexico var hjemsted for ca 5,939 residents. Claybourne startet sin profesjonelle brytekarriere i Missouri i 1931. Initially, Claybourne kjempet i Moberly i nærheten, Missouri. Moberly hadde en befolkning på 13,722 innbyggere sammenlignet med 8,290 innbyggere i Mexico, Missouri

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Before He Was Ed “Strangler” Lewis

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Wrestling historians consider either Ed “Strangler” Lewis or Frank Gotch to be the greatest American professional wrestler. While we know quite a bit about the early career of Frank Gotch, we know much less about the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Various sources claim Lewis learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling in the carnivals when he was only fourteen years old. Lewis

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Jack Pfefer avslører Pro Wrestling

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På begynnelsen av 1930-tallet, de mektigste promotørene innen profesjonell bryting, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, og Tom Packs utførte dobbeltkryss på hverandre og skadet den generelle trekkraften til bryterne deres. Under reklamekrigen, Jack Pfefer stilte seg på linje med Jack Curley og "Toots" Mondt, som løp ut av New York City. In late 1933, Curley og

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Første Caddock-Stecher-kamp

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Jeg tok en ny titt på denne kampen etter å ha hørt på Shut Up and Wrestle-podcast-intervjuet med Mike Chapman, en av de fremste ekspertene på Frank Gotch. Mike Chapman la frem et overbevisende argument for sin tro på at både Earl Caddock vs. Joe Stechers verdenstittelkamper var "shoots" eller legitime konkurranser. Etter å ha gjennomgått regnskapet til

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Browning Shoots med Miyake?

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On Tuesday, June 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

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London vs. Shikat inn 1930

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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

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Great Gama Wrestles Stanislaus Zbyszko

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På lørdag, 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, England. 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

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Lewis slipper tittelen til Sonnenberg

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Og “Strangler” Lewis er en av de to beste amerikanske profesjonelle bryterne gjennom tidene. Mens Lewis var en legitim innleveringsbryter, som kunne slå hvem som helst i en brytekonkurranse, han jobbet nesten utelukkende i forhåndsbestemte utstillingskamper. I 1929, han deltok i en kamp med profesjonell fotballspiller som ble bryter, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg var på Providence Steam Roller,

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Lewis and Zbyszko Argue Over Referee

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Verdensmester i tungvektbryting Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Colosseum torsdag, Desember 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. Louis

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