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Posts about combat sports history from 1870 mus 1930.
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. Nyob rau hauv 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, Lub rau hli ntuj 25, 1936. The 40-year-old Romano was putting Donovan over in a worked match. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
Thaum lub peb hlis ntuj 1910, the United States Attorney General in Council Bluffs, Iowa charged John C. Mabray (a version of his actual name, Mabry) and a dozen defendants with using the mail to commit gambling fraud in professional boxing, professional wrestling, and professional horse racing. Mabry, a livestock dealer living in Kansas City, Missouri, employed insiders in boxing, wrestling, and horse
Thaum sawv ntxov ntxov ntawm lub yim hli ntuj 5, 1933, Plaub zoo burglars ua ib qhov rais ntawm lub tuam txhab Marshfield Brewing tuam txhab nyob Marshfield, Wisconsin. Tus burglars knocked ib dial tawm ntawm qhov kev ruaj ntseg thiab tshem tawm $1,550.00 tsoom fwv teb chaws cov stamps. Nyob rau hauv 2024 las, Tus burglars nyiag lawm $37,000.00. Tib burglars ntse muab lwm $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Early in his career, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 thiab 1905. Thaum lub 1904 phim, Beell won the only fall and match. Schoenlein wanted to avenge this defeat. Nyob hauv ntuj 1905, Schoenlein’s manager secured a rematch in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein stood five feet, ten inches tall and weighed 210 phaus. Beell usually faced a
D. IB. McMillan served as a competent journeyman wrestler during the last two decades of the 19th Century. McMillan wrestled American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns in a worked gambling scheme that a newspaper reporter exposed. While McMillan never won the American title, McMillan beat lesser competition before the better wrestlers like Burns defeated him. Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 22, 1888,
Lub caij nplooj zeeg 1921, Jack Curley thiab Tex Rickard nrog ib promotional feud uas pib nyob rau hauv kev boxing tab sis kis mus rau kev wrestling. Curley thiab Rickard tswm lawv feud hauv ib contest tseeb contest rau lub kaum ib hlis 1921. Curley xaiv John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ua rau nws tiv thaiv Rickard wrestler Marin Plestina. Ua ntej Curley thiab Rickard yuav npaj
Txog hnub plaub, Lub kaum hli ntuj 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. Xwb, 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. Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Thaum lub kaum ib hlis 1921, John "Tus Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek wrestled ib contest tseeb contest nrog Marin Plestina khom ib promotional tsov rog ntawm Jack Curley thiab boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled ib raug mob Plestina, leej twg yog pab cug nws tus kheej. Tom qab ntais ntawv, Rickard rov qab mus boxing thaum lub xeev New York ncaws Commission banned Pesek ntawm wrestling nyob New York.
Nyob rau hauv 1919, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” 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, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,