Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
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. Kuitenkin, 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, Tammikuu 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. Jälkeen
On Memorial Day, Toukokuu 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
Torstaina, Heinäkuu 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
Ammattipainijoiden kuolema kehässä on harvinaista, mutta joskus sitä tapahtuu. Sisään 1936, 5,000 painifanit Washingtonissa, D.C.. huusi vahingossa kuolleelle miehelle Mike Romano vs. "Irlantilainen" Jack Donovan -ottelu Griffith Stadiumilla torstaina, Kesäkuu 25, 1936. 40-vuotias Romano kaatoi Donovanin toimivassa ottelussa. Sanomalehdet raportoivat epätarkasti Romano nimellä
John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek aloitti paininsa ammattimaisesti 1915, mutta Pesek sopi paremmin 1885 ammattimainen painirengas. Mennessä 1915, painijat pelasivat ottelunsa. Taitava kevytpainija Clarence Ecklund koulutti Pesekkiä saalis-saapa-painissa. Pesek kehittyi taitavaksi huoraksi tai alistuvaksi painijaksi. Pesek ei koskaan pitänyt työstä ja paini kilpailuista alkuuransa aikana. Lopulta, Mopsi teki
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. Tammikuu 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During March 1910, Yhdysvaltain oikeusministeri Council Bluffsissa, Iowa syytti John C. Mabray (versio hänen oikeasta nimestään, Mabry) ja kymmenkunta syytettyä, jotka käyttivät postia rahapelipetokseen ammattinyrkkeilyssä, ammattipaini, ja ammattimaiset hevoskilpailut. Mabry, Kansas Cityssä asuva karjakauppias, Missouri, työllisti nyrkkeilyssä sisäpiiriläisiä, paini, ja hevonen