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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 a 1930.
Giovedi ', Ottobre 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. Gennaio 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.
In 1919, John “L'Uomo Tigre del Nebraska” 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, Ed “Strangler” 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, Novembre 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
Il Martedì, Gennaio 29, 1884, Circa duemila fan si sono accalcati nella Detroit Opera House per assistere al primo di una serie di due partite tra il colonnello James H. McLaughlin e Henry Moses Dufur. La folla ha dovuto deliziare gli organizzatori e i lottatori. Le partite che attiravano migliaia di spettatori erano rare durante il 19° secolo. Gli organizzatori hanno affermato che McLaughlin stava difendendo l'americano
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. In 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Inizialmente, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, 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
Oltre ad essere il luogo preferito dai pugili e dai lottatori professionisti per allenarsi a St. Louis, St. La Louis Business Men's Gymnasium ha ospitato piccoli eventi di boxe e wrestling. In 1898, L'ex campione americano di wrestling dei pesi massimi Martin "Farmer" Burns ha lottato con Oscar Wasem davanti a una piccola folla al Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns stava passando all'allenamento di lottatori a tempo pieno e
Durante i primi anni '30, i promotori più potenti del wrestling professionistico, Jack Curley, Joseph “Toots” Mond, Paolo Bowser, e Tom Packs hanno eseguito doppi giochi a vicenda, danneggiando il potere di attrazione complessivo dei loro lottatori. Durante la guerra promozionale, Jack Pfefer si allineò con Jack Curley e "Toots" Mondt, che è scappato da New York City. In late 1933, Curley e