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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 mus 1930.
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
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 “Tus Nebraska Tsovman” Pesek nrhiav tau nws tus kheej nyob rau hauv tib txoj hauj lwm tib yam li Marin Plestina. Tus dominant wrestling ntseeg yuav tsis muab Pesek ib match nrog ib lub “Plaub tug loj plaub” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, thiab Wladek Zbyszko. Tsis tau ruaj ntseg ib match nrog Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos hauv Omaha, Nebraska rau lub kaum hli ntuj 10,
Nyob thanksgiving nyob America, Hnub plaub, Kaum ib hlis 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins ntawm Madison Square vaj nyob New York City. Mahmout nyuam qhuav rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas wrestle Frank Gotch rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Yog Mahmout tua yeej Jenkins, Mahmout yuav pom los ua ib bona fide challenger rau Gotch. Jenkins yog tus
Tuesday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 29, 1884, Kwv yees li ntawm ob txhiab kiv cua crowded rau hauv lub tsev Detroit Opera tsev saib tus thawj ob-match koob ntawm Colonel James H. McLaughlin thiab Henry Moses Dufur. Pawg neeg yuav tsum delight lub koom haum thiab wrestlers. Qhov yuam kev yog nqus crowds nyob rau txhiab tau tsawg tsawg thaum lub xyoo pua 19th. Organizers tau thov McLaughlin yog defending cov American
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, nyob tim 8, 1910. Nyob rau hauv 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 cov neeg. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Chiv, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Wrestling historians xav txog xws li Ed "Strangler" Lewis los yog Frank Gotch yuav tus loj tshaj American kev wrestler. Thaum peb paub heev txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Frank Gotch, Peb paub ntau tsawg txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Ntau qhov chaw thov Lewis kawm catch-as-catch-can wrestling hauv lub carnivals thaum nws tsuas plaub xyoos. Lewis