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Posts about 20th Century wrestlers, wrestling matches, and wrestling films.
In the early 1920s, Billy Sandow đã thuyết phục người quảng bá Georgia Tom Law chuyển đến Wichita, Kansas và phát triển khu vực cho các buổi biểu diễn đấu vật trong tương lai. Vùng Trung Tây nước Mỹ sẽ là nguồn tạo doanh thu đáng kể cho Bộ ba Bụi Vàng, mà Sandow đã dẫn đầu với Nhà vô địch thế giới Ed “Strangler” Lewis và thiên tài quảng cáo Joseph “Toots” Mondt, vào những năm 1920. Luật sẽ tạo ra hai
Verona, Missouri is a small town in southwest Missouri. Never exceeding 900 residents in it’s history, only 438 or so people called Verona home in 1926. Nhưng, a professional wrestling card was held in the town on Monday, Diễu hành 22, 1926. Without the widespread use of automobiles or roads built to handle them, travel would be very difficult in 1926.
Vào thứ Sáu, Tháng Hai 17, 1922, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko wrestled a handicap match against Francois Lemarque and up-and-coming star Jim Londos. Londos vẫn còn vài năm nữa mới trở thành nhân vật có doanh thu phòng vé lớn nhất trong môn đấu vật chuyên nghiệp nhưng anh ấy là đô vật nổi tiếng nhất ở St.. Louis. Trong khi Londos chỉ đứng khoảng 5’06” hoặc 5’07”, anh ấy sở hữu
On Sunday, Tháng mười hai 17, 1906, Kansas City, Missouri once more proved itself to be a hotbed for professional wrestling as 8,000 fans crammed Convention Hall to watch the rematch between Frank Gotch and Fred Beell. Beell won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Gotch three weeks earlier in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gotch claimed the loss to be a fluke, while
On June 11, 1976, Người đàn ông chay tịnh “Toots” Mondt died enroute to Christian Northeast Hospital in North St. Louis County. Mondt had moved to St. Louis trong 1969 to help take care of his wife Alda’s mother. After her mother died in 1971, the Mondts decided to stay in St. Louis, where Alda had been born and raised. Mondt was a legendary
Wayne “Lớn” Munn’s a meteoric rise in professional wrestling. Debuting in 1924, Munn “won” the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Ed “Strangler” Lewis in early 1925. His fall was just as quick. Qua 1926, Munn was retired. A college football lineman from Nebraska, Munn was recruited into professional wrestling by Billy Sandow, defacto leader of the Gold Dust Trio. Các
Fred Beell was a strong, talented professional wrestler at the turn of the 20th Century. Beell gave all the best wrestlers of the day tough contests but his lack of size often hampered his ability with world class wrestlers. Although powerfully built, Beell was generously listed at 5’06”. At his heaviest, Beell never exceeded 170 bảng. While possessing a bodybuilder’s
Willard “hóa đơn hoang dã” Longson sinh ra ở thành phố Salt Lake, Utah, on June 8, 1906 nhưng đã dành phần lớn cuộc đời trưởng thành của mình ở St.. Louis, Missouri. Sau khi bắt đầu sự nghiệp của mình với tư cách là một đô vật chuyên nghiệp ở 1931, Longson thấy mình đang làm việc cho Tom Packs ở St.. Louis. Anh ấy chưa bao giờ thực sự rời đi vì đây sẽ là căn cứ của anh ấy trong thời gian còn lại.
The Gold Dust Trio’s dominance of professional wrestling in the early to mid-1920s bred lots of resentment with other wrestlers and promoters. This professional jealousy led to a famous double-cross in 1925. From this time on, the world title was disputed as Joe Stecher held one version, while Ed “Strangler” Lewis held the other version. Due to the real resentment
The following excerpt is from my new book Double Crossing the Gold Dust Trio, which will be out this summer. During the summer (of 1921), the Zbyszko brothers received word that their mother was gravely ill. Making quick preparation, they let Curley and the other promoters know they would be leaving as soon as they could arrange passage on a