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Posts about combat sports history from 1870 za 1930.
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. V 1936, 5,000 wrestling fans in Washington, Enosmerno. inadvertently booed a dead man at the end of the Mike Romano vs. “Irish” Jack Donovan match at Griffith Stadium on Thursday, Junij 25, 1936. The 40-year-old Romano was putting Donovan over in a worked match. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
During March 1910, generalni državni tožilec Združenih držav v Council Bluffs, Iowa je obtožila Johna C. Mabray (različica njegovega pravega imena, Mabry) in ducat obtožencev z uporabo pošte za goljufije pri igrah na srečo v profesionalnem boksu, profesionalna rokoborba, in profesionalne konjske dirke. Mabry, trgovec z živino, ki živi v Kansas Cityju, Missouri, zaposleni insajderji v boksu, rokoborba, in konj
Avgusta v zgodnjih jutranjih urah 5, 1933, štirje varni vlomilci so razbili okno v pivovarni Marshfield Brewing Company v Marshfieldu, Wisconsin. Vlomilci so s trezorja podrli številčnico in jo odstranili $1,550.00 v zveznih znamkah. V 2024 dollars, vlomilci ukradli $37,000.00. Isti vlomilci so uspešno odnesli še enega $1,000 v zveznih znamkah družbe Wausau Brewing Company
Na začetku svoje kariere, Fred Beell se je boril z Gusom »Americusom« Schoenleinom 1904 in 1905. Med 1904 match, Beell je zmagal v edinem padcu in tekmi. Schoenlein se je želel maščevati za ta poraz. In May 1905, Schoenleinov menedžer si je zagotovil povratno tekmo v Schoenleinovem rojstnem mestu Baltimoru, Maryland. Schoenlein je stal pet metrov, deset centimetrov visok in tehtan 210 funtov. Beell se je običajno soočil z
D. A. McMillan je v zadnjih dveh desetletjih 19. stoletja služil kot kompetenten rokoborec. McMillan se je boril z ameriškim prvakom v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Martinom "Farmerjem" Burnsom v delujoči shemi iger na srečo, ki jo je razkril časopisni novinar. Medtem ko McMillan nikoli ni osvojil ameriškega naslova, McMillan je premagal manjšo konkurenco, preden so ga premagali boljši rokoborci, kot je Burns. Decembra 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
Četrtek, 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. Januarja 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled a legitimate contest with Marin Plestina to settle a promotional war between Jack Curley and boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled an injured Plestina, who was helpless to defend himself. After the match, Rickard returned to boxing while the New York State Athletic Commission banned Pesek from wrestling in New York.
V 1919, John “Tigerman iz Nebraske” 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, In “Strangler” Lewis, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,