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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. Januarja 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.
V 1919, John “Tigerman iz Nebraske” 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” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, In “Strangler” Lewis, 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, 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 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 med 1979, “Mornar” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. V 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Najprej, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Rokoborski zgodovinarji menijo, da sta Ed "Strangler" Lewis ali Frank Gotch največja ameriška profesionalna rokoborca. Čeprav vemo kar nekaj o zgodnji karieri Franka Gotcha, veliko manj vemo o zgodnji karieri Eda »Davitelja« Lewisa. Različni viri trdijo, da se je Lewis na karnevalih naučil rokoborbe "ujemi, ko ulovi, ko je bil star komaj štirinajst let".. Lewis
V zgodnjih 1930-ih, najmočnejših promotorjev v profesionalni rokoborbi, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, in Tom Packs sta izvajala dvojne napade drug na drugem, kar je prizadelo skupno moč njunih rokoborcev. Med promocijsko vojno, Jack Pfefer se je povezal z Jackom Curleyjem in "Tootsom" Mondtom, ki je pobegnil iz New Yorka. V pozno 1933, Curley in
To tekmo sem si ponovno ogledal po poslušanju intervjuja podcasta Shut Up and Wrestle z Mikeom Chapmanom, eden najpomembnejših strokovnjakov za Franka Gotcha. Mike Chapman je navedel prepričljiv argument za svoje prepričanje, da sta Earl Caddock vs.. Tekme za naslov svetovnega prvaka Joeja Stecherja so bile »streljanja« ali legitimna tekmovanja. Po pregledu računov v