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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. Tačiau, 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, Sausis 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. Po
On Memorial Day, Gegužės 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
On Thursday, Liepa 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
Profesionalūs imtynininkai, mirę ringe. Į 1936, 5,000 Imtynių gerbėjai Vašingtone, D.C. Mike'o Romano pabaigoje netyčia užklupo negyvą vyrą. „Irish“ Jacko Donovano rungtynės „Griffith“ stadione ketvirtadienį, Birželis 25, 1936. 40-metis Romanas donovaną perdavė dirbančiose rungtynėse. Laikraščiai netiksliai pranešė „Romano“ kaip
Jonas „Nebraska Tigerman“ Pesekas pradėjo profesionaliai imtis 1915, Bet Pesekas labiau tiko 1885 Profesionalus imtynių žiedas. Pagal 1915, Imtynininkai dirbo savo rungtynes. Kvalifikuotas lengvasis imtynininkas Clarence'as Ecklundas treniravo Peseką į „Catch-as-Catch“ imtynes. „Pesek“ išsivystė į kvalifikuotą prostituciją ar pateikimo imtynininką. Pesekas niekada nepatiko dirbant ir kovojant varžybose per savo ankstyvą karjerą. Ilgainiui, Smėlis
Jei jis būtų buvęs didesnis, Pirmajame dvidešimtojo amžiaus dešimtmetyje Fredas Beellas būtų buvęs dominuojantis sunkiasvoris. Užuot, didesni oponentai dažnai nugalėdavo Beellą tik todėl, kad oponentas trisdešimt penkiasdešimt svarų sveria Beellą. Tais retais atvejais, kai Beell imtyniavosi su vidutinio sunkumo svoriu, Bellas sutriuškino savo priešininką. On January 13, 1905, Beell imtyniavosi su H.P. Hansenas įeina
During March 1910, Jungtinių Valstijų generalinis prokuroras Council Bluffs, Ajova apkaltino Johną C. Mabray (tikrojo vardo versija, Mabry) ir keliolika kaltinamųjų, pasinaudojusių paštu sukčiavimui lošimo srityje profesionaliame bokse, profesionalios imtynės, ir profesionalias žirgų lenktynes. Mabry, gyvulių prekeivis, gyvenantis Kanzas Sityje, Misūris, įdarbino bokso savininkus, imtynės, ir arklys