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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
During June 1927, the Illinois state legislature rocked the professional boxing and professional wrestling worlds when a subcommittee started investigating the state athletic commission. The legislature believed that promoters were putting on “fake” contests in both sports. Before the committee concluded its work, it suspended the boxing and wrestling licenses of 130 athletes. These revelations further disillusioned wrestling fans aggravated
Jim Londos developed a national reputation as one of the top professional wrestlers during the 1910s. Fodd bynnag,, Londos’ career took a major step forward when Londos started wrestling for the fledgling St. Louis promotion in the early 1920s. Londos headlined the first card in late 1921. Londos wrestled on the second card on Thursday, Ionawr 26, 1922, as well. Current
When the great Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, the boxing establishment started searching for a “white hope” to defeat Johnson. In desperation to find someone to defeat Johnson, promoters and sports writers started lobbying former World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries to end his retirement to fight Johnson. Jeffries retired undefeated in 1905. After
On Memorial Day, Mai 30, 1925, Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko in a worked match to reclaim the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that Stecher had lost in December 1920. Stecher was part of a conspiracy that paid Stanislaus Zbyszko to double-cross Wayne “Big” Munn in April 1925. Zbyszko defeated Munn legitimately in one of professional wrestling’s most famous double-crosses. As
Ar ddydd Iau, Gorffennaf 9, 1925, Ed “Strangler” Lewis made one of the early defenses of his version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis wrestled Howard Cantonwine in front of 5,000 fans at McNulty Park. After Stanislaus Zbyszko double-crossed Sandow’s and Lewis’ promotional group by defeating Wayne “Big” Munn legitimately, both Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis
Jim Londos developed into professional wrestling’s biggest box office star during the 1930s. Londos wrestled main events against Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Jim Browning at baseball stadiums. These matches drew crowds of more than 30,000 fans for the first time since the second Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt in 1911. When Londos wrestled in Greece, Londos drew crowds estimated to be at
Mae reslwyr proffesiynol yn marw yn y cylch yn brin ond yn digwydd weithiau. Yn 1936, 5,000 cefnogwyr reslo yn Washington, D.C. beiddio dyn marw yn anfwriadol ar ddiwedd gêm Mike Romano vs. Gêm “Wyddelig” Jack Donovan yn Stadiwm Griffith ddydd Iau, Mehefin 25, 1936. Roedd y Romano 40 oed yn rhoi Donovan drosodd mewn gêm weithiedig. Adroddodd papurau newydd fod Romano yn anghywir
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. Erbyn 1915, wrestlers worked their matches. Skilled lightweight wrestler Clarence Ecklund trained Pesek in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Pesek developed into a skilled hooker or submission wrestler. Pesek never liked working and wrestled contests in his early career. Yn y pen draw, Pesek did
Pe buasai yn fwy, Byddai Fred Beell wedi bod yn brif bwysau trwm yn negawd cyntaf yr Ugeinfed Ganrif. Instead, roedd gwrthwynebwyr mwy yn aml yn trechu Beell yn unig oherwydd bod y gwrthwynebydd yn gorbwyso Beell o dri deg i hanner cant o bunnoedd. Ar yr achlysuron prin y bu Beell yn ymaflyd mewn pwysau canol, Maluodd Beell ei wrthwynebydd. Ar Ionawr 13, 1905, Beell reslo H.P. Hansen i mewn
During March 1910, Twrnai Cyffredinol yr Unol Daleithiau yn Council Bluffs, Cyhuddodd Iowa John C. Mabray (fersiwn o'i enw gwirioneddol, Mabry) a dwsin o ddiffynyddion yn defnyddio'r post i gyflawni twyll gamblo mewn bocsio proffesiynol, reslo proffesiynol, a rasio ceffylau proffesiynol. Mabry, deliwr da byw yn byw yn Kansas City, Missouri, gweithwyr mewnol mewn bocsio, reslo, a march