Sejarawan Olahraga Tempur dan Artis Bela Diri
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 untuk 1930.
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. Di 1936, 5,000 wrestling fans in Washington, D.C. inadvertently booed a dead man at the end of the Mike Romano vs. “Irish” Jack Donovan match at Griffith Stadium on Thursday, Juni 25, 1936. The 40-year-old Romano was putting Donovan over in a worked match. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
During March 1910, Jaksa Agung Amerika Serikat di Council Bluffs, Iowa mendakwa John C. Mabray (versi nama aslinya, Mabry) dan selusin terdakwa menggunakan surat untuk melakukan penipuan perjudian di tinju profesional, gulat profesional, dan balap kuda profesional. Mabry, seorang pedagang ternak yang tinggal di Kansas City, Missouri, mempekerjakan orang dalam di tinju, gulat, dan kuda
Di pagi hari bulan Agustus 5, 1933, empat pencuri yang aman memecahkan jendela di Marshfield Brewing Company di Marshfield, Wisconsin. Para pencuri menekan tombol brankas dan mengeluarkannya $1,550.00 dalam perangko federal. Di 2024 dolar, para perampok mencuri $37,000.00. Pencuri yang sama berhasil merampas yang lain $1,000 dalam perangko federal dari Wausau Brewing Company
Di awal karirnya, Fred Beell bergulat dengan Gus “Americus” Schoenlein 1904 dan 1905. During the 1904 match, Beell memenangkan satu-satunya musim gugur dan pertandingan. Schoenlein ingin membalas kekalahan ini. Pada bulan Mei 1905, Manajer Schoenlein mengamankan pertandingan ulang di kampung halaman Schoenlein di Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein berdiri lima kaki, sepuluh inci tinggi dan beratnya 210 pon. Beell biasanya menghadapi a
D. A. McMillan menjabat sebagai pegulat harian yang kompeten selama dua dekade terakhir abad ke-19. McMillan bergulat dengan Juara Gulat Kelas Berat Amerika Martin “Farmer” Burns dalam skema perjudian yang berhasil diungkap oleh seorang reporter surat kabar. Sedangkan McMillan tidak pernah meraih gelar Amerika, McMillan mengalahkan kompetisi yang lebih rendah sebelum pegulat yang lebih baik seperti Burns mengalahkannya. Pada tanggal 22, 1888,
In the fall of 1921, Jack Curley and Tex Rickard engaged in a promotional feud that started in professional boxing but spread to professional wrestling. Curley and Rickard settled their feud in a legitimate contest in November 1921. Curley selected John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek to act for him against Rickard’s wrestler Marin Plestina. Before Curley and Rickard could arrange
Pada hari Kamis, Oktober 7, 1884, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin wrestled Henry Moses Dufur for what both men claimed would be the last time. The 40-year-olds specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling. The men wrestled in Detroit, Michigan, the home territory of McLaughlin. The match took place at the Detroit Opera House in front of a small crowd. Professional wrestling had not developed
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. Pada Januari 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek bergulat dalam kontes yang sah dengan Marin Plestina untuk menyelesaikan perang promosi antara Jack Curley dan promotor tinju Tex Rickard. Pesek mengotori Plestina yang terluka, yang tidak berdaya untuk membela diri. After the match, Rickard kembali bertinju sementara Komisi Atletik Negara Bagian New York melarang Pesek bergulat di New York.
Di 1919, John “Manusia Harimau Nebraska” Pesek found himself in the same position as Marin Plestina. The dominant wrestling trust would not give Pesek a match with one of the “Big Four” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Dan “Pencekik” Lewis, dan Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,