مؤرخ الرياضة القتالية وفنان القتال
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 إلى 1930.
يوم الخميس, أكتوبر 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. كانون الثاني 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.
<تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1919, جون “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” – إيرل كادوك, جو ستيتشر, و “خانق” رافعة الحجارة, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,
On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, نوفمبر 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mahmout recently to the United States to wrestle Frank Gotch for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. If Mahmout defeated Jenkins, Mahmout would prove to be a bona fide challenger to Gotch. Jenkins was the
يوم الثلاثاء, يناير 29, 1884, approximately two thousand fans crowded into the Detroit Opera House to watch the first of a two-match series between Colonel James H. McLaughlin and Henry Moses Dufur. The crowd had to delight the organizers and wrestlers. Matches drawing crowds in the thousands were rare during the 19th Century. Organizers claimed McLaughlin was defending the American
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, ميسوري, on March 8, 1910. <تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. في البداية, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, ميسوري. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, ميسوري
يعتبر مؤرخو المصارعة إما إد "سترانجلر" لويس أو فرانك جوتش أعظم مصارع أمريكي محترف. بينما نعرف الكثير عن بداية مسيرة فرانك جوتش المهنية, نحن نعرف أقل بكثير عن الحياة المهنية المبكرة لإد "سترانجلر" لويس. تزعم مصادر مختلفة أن لويس تعلم المصارعة في الكرنفالات عندما كان عمره أربعة عشر عامًا فقط. رافعة الحجارة
إلى جانب كونه المكان المفضل للملاكمين والمصارعين المحترفين للتدريب في سانت لويس. لويس, سانت. استضافت صالة Louis Business Men's Gymnasium أحداثًا أصغر للملاكمة والمصارعة. <تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 1898, بطل المصارعة الأمريكي للوزن الثقيل السابق مارتن "فارمر" بيرنز تصارع أوسكار وسيم أمام حشد صغير في صالة الألعاب الرياضية لرجال الأعمال. كان بيرنز ينتقل إلى تدريب المصارعين بدوام كامل و
خلال أوائل الثلاثينيات, أقوى المروجين في مصارعة المحترفين, جاك كيرلي, جوزيف "توتس" موندت, بول باوزر, ونفذ Tom Packs عرضيات مزدوجة على بعضهم البعض مما أضر بقوة السحب الإجمالية لمصارعيهم. خلال الحرب الترويجية, انضم جاك فايفر إلى جاك كيرلي و"توتس" موندت, الذي نفد من مدينة نيويورك. In late 1933, كيرلي و