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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. لكن, 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, يناير 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, مايو 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
يوم الخميس, يوليو 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
من النادر أن يموت المصارعون المحترفون في الحلبة ولكنه يحدث أحيانًا. <تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1936, 5,000 عشاق المصارعة في واشنطن, D.C. أطلق صيحات الاستهجان عن غير قصد على رجل ميت في نهاية مباراة مايك رومانو ضد. مباراة “الإيرلندي” جاك دونوفان على ملعب جريفيث يوم الخميس, يونيو 25, 1936. كان رومانو البالغ من العمر 40 عامًا يضع دونوفان في مباراة عمل. ذكرت الصحف بشكل غير دقيق أن رومانو
بدأ جون "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek المصارعة بشكل احترافي 1915, لكن Pesek كان أكثر ملاءمة لـ 1885 حلقة مصارعة محترفة. من قبل 1915, عمل المصارعون مبارياتهم. قام المصارع الماهر في الوزن الخفيف، كلارنس إكلوند، بتدريب بيسيك على المصارعة التي يمكن اصطيادها.. تطورت Pesek إلى عاهرة ماهرة أو مصارع تقديم. لم يحب Pesek أبدًا مسابقات العمل والمصارعة في بداية حياته المهنية. أخيرا, فعل الصلصال
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. كانون الثاني 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During March 1910, المدعي العام للولايات المتحدة في كاونسيل بلافز, اتهمت ولاية أيوا جون سي. مابراي (نسخة من اسمه الحقيقي, مابري) وعشرات المدعى عليهم باستخدام البريد لارتكاب جرائم احتيال القمار في الملاكمة الاحترافية, مصارعة محترفة, وسباقات الخيل الاحترافية. مابري, تاجر ماشية يعيش في مدينة كانساس, ميسوري, توظيف المطلعين في الملاكمة, مصارعة, والحصان