Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 1930.
Am Donnerstag,, 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. Am January 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Im November 1921, John „The Nebraska Tigerman“ Pesek hat einen legitimen Kampf mit Marin Plestina ausgetragen, um einen Werbekrieg zwischen Jack Curley und dem Boxpromoter Tex Rickard beizulegen. Pesek foulte eine verletzte Plestina, der sich nicht wehren konnte. After the match, Rickard kehrte zum Boxen zurück, während die New York State Athletic Commission Pesek verbot, in New York zu ringen.
In 1919, John “Der Nebraska-Tigermann” 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, Und “Würger” Lewis, 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, November 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
Am Dienstag, Januar 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, einer der ersten Afroamerikaner, professionelle Wrestler, wurde als Elmer Claybourn in Mexiko geboren, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. In 1910, Mexiko war die Heimat von etwa 5,939 residents. Claybourne begann seine professionelle Wrestling-Karriere in Missouri 1931. Anfänglich, Claybourne rang im nahegelegenen Moberly, Missouri. Moberly hatte eine Bevölkerung von 13,722 Einwohner im Vergleich zu 8,290 Einwohner in Mexiko, Missouri
Wrestling-Historiker halten entweder Ed „Strangler“ Lewis oder Frank Gotch für den größten amerikanischen Profi-Wrestler. Wir wissen zwar einiges über die frühe Karriere von Frank Gotch, Wir wissen viel weniger über die frühe Karriere von Ed „Strangler“ Lewis. Verschiedene Quellen behaupten, Lewis habe das Catch-as-Catch-Can-Wrestling auf dem Karneval gelernt, als er erst vierzehn Jahre alt war. Lewis
Besides being the preferred venue for professional boxers and wrestlers to train when in St. Louis, die St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium hosted smaller boxing and wrestling events. In 1898, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem in front of a small crowd at the Business Men’s Gymnasium. Burns was transitioning into training wrestlers full-time and
During the early 1930s, the most powerful promoters in professional wrestling, Jack Curley, Joseph „Toots“ Mondt, Paul Bowser, and Tom Packs executed double-crosses on each other hurting the overall drawing power of their wrestlers. During the promotional war, Jack Pfefer aligned himself with Jack Curley and “Toots” Mondt, who ran out of New York City. Im Spät 1933, Curley and