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Posts about early Twentieth Century professional wrestling.
Over the past twenty years, preservationists have found several wrestling films from the 1920s through the 1950s that were assumed lost. Fans can watch most of the newly discovered films on YouTube. One of the surviving films is eighteen minutes of an hour, twenty minutes match from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1930. Jim Londos wrestled Dick Shikat (video link) for a
På lørdag, September 10, 1910, Stanislaus Zbyszko, fresh off his first tour of the United States, wrestled the Great Gama at Shepherd’s Bush Stadium in London, England. 7,000 spectators crowded into the stadium to watch the match. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Benjamin brought a group of Pehlwani wrestlers from India to wrestle in England. Fans consider the Great Gama
Når tungvekts Wrestling Champion William Muldoon pensjonerte seg i 1889, han håpet hans protesjé Ernest Roeber vil bli anerkjent som den nye mesteren. However, Muldoon vant sin tittel i gresk-romersk bryting, som var den tyskfødte Roeber kompetanse. Dessverre, utnyttelser av Martin “Farmer” Burns og Evan “The Strangler” Lewis slynget catch-as-catch-kan bryting i den dominerende stil. Roeber hadde en
Verdensmester i tungvektbryting Ed “Strangler” Lewis was scheduled to meet former champion Stanislaus Zbyszko at the St. Louis Colosseum torsdag, Desember 14, 1922 but the match was almost called off due to disagreements over the selection of a referee. It was only after the intercession of St. Louis promoter John Contos that both men agreed to St. Louis
On Tuesday, Desember 12, 1916, lokal favoritt, John “Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek kjempet med skytter, Al “nederlandsk” mantel, i en jobbet kamp. Pesek trente nylig med en annen Nebraska-bryter og anerkjent verdensmester Joe Stecher før denne kampen. Pesek utviklet et beryktet rykte for å skyte med andre brytere. However, Pesek var en 22 år gammel oppegående som fortsatt lærte å bryte, når
Oscar Wasem startet sin karriere i St. Louis, Missouri under veiledning av George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, St. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
Desember 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Missouri. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, Kansas. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
November 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek kjempet to av de mest kjente legitime konkurransene på 1920-tallet. Pesek avsluttet to reklamekriger ved å gå med på å "skyte" konkurranser med Marin Plestina og Nat Pendelton. I 1916, Pesek var en fremadstormende bryter aktiv i hjemstaten Nebraska. On Thursday, September 14, 1916, Pesek kjempet med en annen Nebraska-bryter, Chris Jordan. Fans and