Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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. Emellertid, 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, Januari 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, Maj 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
På torsdag, Juli 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
Professionella brottare som dör i ringen är sällsynt men händer ibland. I 1936, 5,000 brottningsfans i Washington, D.C. buade oavsiktligt en död man i slutet av Mike Romano vs. "Irländska" Jack Donovan match på Griffith Stadium på torsdag, Juni 25, 1936. Den 40-årige Romano satte över Donovan i en fungerade match. Tidningar rapporterade felaktigt Romano som
John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek började brottas professionellt i 1915, men Pesek var mer lämpad för 1885 professionell brottningsring. Genom 1915, brottare arbetade sina matcher. Den skickliga lättviktsbrottaren Clarence Ecklund tränade Pesek i catch-as-catch-can-brottning. Pesek utvecklades till en skicklig hora eller submission wrestler. Pesek tyckte aldrig om att arbeta och brottades med tävlingar i sin tidiga karriär. Så småningom, Mops gjorde det
Om han hade varit större, Fred Beell skulle ha varit en dominerande tungviktare under 1900-talets första decennium. Instead, större motståndare besegrade ofta Beell bara för att motståndaren vägde upp Beell med trettio till femtio pund. Vid de sällsynta tillfällena som Beell brottades en mellanvikt, Beell krossade sin motståndare. På Januari 13, 1905, Beell brottades H.P. Hansen in
During March 1910, USA:s justitieminister i Council Bluffs, Iowa anklagade John C. Mabray (en version av hans verkliga namn, Mabry) och ett dussin åtalade med att använda posten för att begå spelbedrägerier i professionell boxning, professionell brottning, och professionell hästkapplöpning. Mabry, en boskapshandlare som bor i Kansas City, Missouri, anställda insiders inom boxning, brottning, och häst