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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. Mar sin féin, 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, Eanáir 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, Bealtaine 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 Déardaoin, Iúil 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
Is annamh a bhíonn wrestlers gairmiúla ag fáil bháis sa fháinne ach tarlaíonn sé uaireanta. In 1936, 5,000 lucht leanúna wrestling i Washington, D.C. gan chuimhneamh boed fear marbh ag deireadh an Mike Romano vs. Cluiche “Éireannach” Jack Donovan i Staid Uí Ghríofa Déardaoin, Meitheamh 25, 1936. Bhí an Romano 40 bliain d'aois ag cur Donovan os a chionn i gcluiche oibrithe. Thug nuachtáin tuairisc mhíchruinn ar Romano mar
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. De réir 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. Faoi dheireadh, Pesek did
Dá mbeadh sé níos mó, Bheadh Fred Beell ina thrommheáchan ceannasach sa chéad deich mbliana den Fhichiú hAois. Instead, is minic a sháraigh comhraic níos mó Béal ach amháin toisc gur sháraigh an chéile comhraic Beall idir tríocha agus caoga punt. Ar na hócáidí neamhchoitianta a chaith Beell meáchan meánach, Bhris Beell a chéile comhraic. Ar Eanáir 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen isteach
During March 1910, Ard-Aighne na Stát Aontaithe i Bluffs na Comhairle, Ghearr Iowa John C. Mhabrai (leagan dá ainm féin, Mabraigh) agus dosaen cosantóirí ag baint úsáide as an bpost chun calaois chearrbhachais a dhéanamh sa dornálaíocht ghairmiúil, wrestling proifisiúnta, agus rásaíocht capall gairmiúil. Mabraigh, déileálaí beostoic a chónaíonn i Kansas City, Missouri, fostaithe istigh sa dornálaíocht, wrestling, agus capall