Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 kwa 1930.
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. In 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, 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
In the early morning hours of August 5, 1933, four safe burglars broke a window at the Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The burglars knocked a dial off the safe and removed $1,550.00 in federal stamps. In 2024 dollars, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Mapema katika kazi yake, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 na 1905. During the 1904 match, Beell won the only fall and match. Schoenlein wanted to avenge this defeat. In May 1905, Schoenlein’s manager secured a rematch in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein stood five feet, ten inches tall and weighed 210 paundi. Beell usually faced a
D. A. 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. Desemba 22, 1888,
Katika kuanguka kwa 1921, Jack Curley na Tex Rickard walihusika katika ugomvi wa utangazaji ambao ulianza katika ndondi za kulipwa lakini ukaenea hadi kwenye mieleka ya kitaaluma.. Curley na Rickard walitatua ugomvi wao katika shindano halali mnamo Novemba 1921. Curley alimchagua John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek kuchukua nafasi yake dhidi ya mwanamieleka wa Rickard Marin Plestina.. Kabla ya Curley na Rickard kupanga
Siku ya Alhamisi, Oktoba 7, 1884, Kanali James Hiram McLaughlin alipambana na Henry Moses Dufur kwa kile ambacho wanaume wote walidai kuwa itakuwa mara ya mwisho. Vijana hao wa miaka 40 walibobea katika mieleka ya kola na kiwiko. Wanaume hao walipigana mieleka huko Detroit, Michigan, eneo la nyumbani la McLaughlin. Mechi hiyo ilifanyika kwenye Ukumbi wa Opera wa Detroit mbele ya umati mdogo wa watu. Mieleka ya kitaaluma haikuwa imeendelezwa
Kama angekuwa mkubwa zaidi, Fred Beell angekuwa mchezaji wa uzani mzito katika muongo wa kwanza wa Karne ya Ishirini. Instead, wapinzani wakubwa mara nyingi walimshinda Beell kwa sababu tu mpinzani alimzidi Beell kwa pauni thelathini hadi hamsini.. Katika matukio machache ambayo Beell alipigana mieleka ya middleweight, Bell alimponda mpinzani wake. Januari 13, 1905, Beell alishindana na H.P. Hansen ndani
Wakati wa Novemba 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek alipigana pambano halali na Marin Plestina ili kusuluhisha vita vya uendelezaji kati ya Jack Curley na promota wa ndondi Tex Rickard.. Pesek alimfanyia madhambi Plestina aliyejeruhiwa, ambaye alikuwa hoi kujitetea. After the match, Rickard alirejea kwenye ndondi huku Tume ya riadha ya Jimbo la New York ikimpiga marufuku Pesek kushiriki mieleka huko New York..
In 1919, John “Tiger ya Nebraska” Pesek alijikuta katika nafasi sawa na Marin Plestina. Uaminifu mkubwa wa mieleka haungempa Pesek mechi na mmoja wapo “Kubwa Nne” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Na “Strangler” Lewis, na Wladek Zbyszko. Imeshindwa kupata mechi na Stecher, Sand alipambana na Jim Londos huko Omaha, Nebraska mnamo Oktoba 10,