Category: 20th Century Pro Wrestling History

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William Hayes Shaw, ki se je večino svoje rokoborske kariere boril kot Pat O'Shocker, v središču pozornosti znašel v 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with

V 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was

I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. Medtem ko ima Griffin insajdersko znanje zaradi svojega časa v promocijski pisarni Buffalo v tridesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja, knjigo je napisal z namenom maščevanja promotorjem, ki so ga odpustili. Knjiga vsebuje dejanske podatke, pomešane z zanimivimi

In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilu se je začel boriti kot Jim Londos po nekaj letih, ko je bil trik “Borbeni mavčar”. Londos se verjetno ni zavedal, da bo sprememba imena prvi korak k temu, da postane največja blagajniška atrakcija v profesionalni rokoborbi iz 1930-ih.. Drugi korak je bil njegov nastop kot glavni rokoborec v St. Louis. Rojen v

Julija 4, 1922, Alan Eustace je dobil strel proti svetovnemu prvaku v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Edu “Strangler” Lewis. Eustace, prvak Kansasa, zmagal kvalifikacijski tekmi z “Kmet” Bailey marca 1922 da bi se uvrstil na tekmo z Lewisom. 31-letni Eustace je bil iste starosti kot “Strangler” Lewis, vendar je bil Lewis veliko bolj izkušen. Debitiral pri 14 let,

In early 1915, Sam Rachmann promoted the New York International Wrestling Tournament with the intention of replacing retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. Rachmann believed no one could defeat Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Rachmann’s handpicked successor to Gotch, in Greco-Roman wrestling. Rachmann’s challenge was catch-as-catch-can was the dominant wrestling style in America. To get around this challenge, Rachmann recruited international

V 1922, future World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Jim Browning began his career in Kansas. Browning moved from his hometown of Verona, Missouri in 1921 to train for a professional wrestling career. Tom Law, the Wichita, Kansas promoter, oversaw Browning’s training. By May 1923, Browning was already in the main event at smaller shows. On an Augusta, Kansas card, Browning wrestled

Marca 3, 1922, In “Strangler” Lewis regained the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Stanislaus Zbyszko. This event marked the beginning of one of the most dominant professional wrestling combines in history. Manager Billy Sandow, World Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis and training partner/promotional genius Joseph “Toots” Mondt, known as the “Gold Dust Trio”, dominated the sport for the next six