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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 1930.
On Thursday, Listopad 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. Umjesto, 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. Siječnja 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Tijekom studenog 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek borio se u legitimnom natjecanju s Marinom Pleštinom kako bi riješio promotivni rat između Jacka Curleya i boksačkog promotora Texa Rickarda. Pesek je faulirao ozlijeđenog Pleštinu, koji se bespomoćno branio. After the match, Rickard se vratio boksu dok je Atletska komisija države New York zabranila Peseku hrvanje u New Yorku.
U 1919, Jovan “Tigerman iz Nebraske” 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, I “Davitelj” Klin dizač, 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, Studeni 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
U utorak, Siječanj 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, jedan od najranijih Afroamerikanaca, profesionalni hrvači, rođen je Elmer Claybourn u Meksiku, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. U 1910, Meksiko je bio dom otprilike 5,939 residents. Claybourne je započeo svoju profesionalnu hrvačku karijeru u Missouriju godine 1931. Initially, Claybourne se hrvao u obližnjem Moberlyju, Missouri. Moberly je imao stanovnika 13,722 stanovnika u usporedbi s 8,290 stanovnika u Meksiku, Missouri
Povjesničari hrvanja smatraju ili Eda "Davitelja" Lewisa ili Franka Gotcha najvećim američkim profesionalnim hrvačem. Iako znamo dosta o ranoj karijeri Franka Gotcha, znamo mnogo manje o ranoj karijeri Eda "Davitelja" Lewisa. Različiti izvori tvrde da je Lewis naučio hrvanje uhvati-kao-uhvati na karnevalima kada je imao samo četrnaest godina. Klin dizač
Osim što je omiljeno mjesto za treniranje profesionalnih boksača i hrvača u St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium bila je domaćin manjih događaja u boksu i hrvanju. U 1898, bivši američki hrvački prvak u teškoj kategoriji Martin "Farmer" Burns borio se s Oscarom Wasemom pred malom publikom u dvorani Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns je počeo stalno trenirati hrvače i
Tijekom ranih 1930-ih, najmoćniji promotori u profesionalnom hrvanju, Jack Curley, Joseph “Toots” Mondt, Paul Bowser, i Tom Packs izvodili su dvostruke napade jedan na drugoga što je naštetilo ukupnoj moći privlačenja njihovih hrvača. Tijekom promidžbenog rata, Jack Pfefer pridružio se Jacku Curleyju i "Tootsu" Mondtu, koji je pobjegao iz New Yorka. In late 1933, Curley i