Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 kuni 1930.
Neljapäeval, Oktoober 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. Selle asemel, 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. On jaanuar 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John "Nebraska tiiger" Pesek võitles Marin Plestinaga seadusliku võistluse, et lahendada reklaamisõda Jack Curley ja poksipromootori Tex Rickardi vahel.. Pesek tegi vigastatud Plestinale viga, kes ei suutnud end kaitsta. After the match, Rickard naasis poksi juurde, samal ajal kui New Yorgi osariigi kergejõustikukomisjon keelas Pesekil New Yorgis maadluse.
Sisse 1919, John “Nebraska tiigermees” Pesek leidis end Marin Plestinaga samast positsioonist. Domineeriv maadlususaldus ei annaks Pesekile matši ühega “Suur Nelik” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, ja Wladek Zbyszko. Stecheriga ei õnnestu matši kindlustada, Liiva maadles Omahas Jim Londosega, oktoobril Nebraska 10,
Tänupühal Ameerikas, Thursday, November 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout maadles New Yorgis Madison Square Gardenis endise Ameerika raskekaalu maadlusmeistri Tom Jenkinsiga. Mahmout käis hiljuti USA-s, et maadleda Frank Gotchiga maadluse raskekaalu maailmameistrivõistlusteks. Kui Mahmout alistas Jenkinsi, Mahmout osutub Gotchi heauskseks väljakutsujaks. Jenkins oli
Teisipäeval, Jaanuar 29, 1884, umbes kaks tuhat fänni kogunes Detroidi ooperimajja, et vaadata esimest kahemängulisest seeriast kolonel James H.. McLaughlin ja Henry Moses Dufur. Rahvas pidi korraldajaid ja maadlejaid rõõmustama. 19. sajandil olid matšid, mis kogusid tuhandeid rahvahulki, haruldased. Korraldajad väitsid, et McLaughlin kaitses ameeriklast
Jack Claybourne, üks varasemaid afroameeriklasi, professionaalsed maadlejad, sündis Elmer Claybourn Mehhikos, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. Sisse 1910, Mehhiko oli koduks umbes 5,939 residents. Claybourne alustas oma professionaalset maadluskarjääri Missouris aastal 1931. Esialgu, Claybourne maadles lähedalasuvas Moberlys, Missouri. Moberly rahvaarv oli 13,722 elanikega võrreldes 8,290 elanikud Mehhikos, Missouri
Wrestling historians consider either Ed “Strangler” Lewis or Frank Gotch to be the greatest American professional wrestler. While we know quite a bit about the early career of Frank Gotch, we know much less about the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Various sources claim Lewis learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling in the carnivals when he was only fourteen years old. Lewis
Besides being the preferred venue for professional boxers and wrestlers to train when in St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium hosted smaller boxing and wrestling events. Sisse 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. Aasta lõpus 1933, Curley and