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Posts about professional wrestling history from 1870 līdz 1930.
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. Līdz 1915, wrestlers worked their matches. Skilled lightweight wrestler Clarence Ecklund trained Pesek in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Pesek developed into a skilled hooker or submission wrestler. Pesek never liked working and wrestled contests in his early career. Beidzot, Pesek did
Profesionāli cīkstoņi mirst ringā reti, bet reizēm notiek. Uz 1936, 5,000 cīkstēšanās fani Vašingtonā, D.C. netīšām izsauca mirušu vīrieti Mike Romano vs. “Īru” Džeka Donovana spēle ceturtdien Grifitas stadionā, Jūnijs 25, 1936. 40 gadus vecais Romano nospēlēja Donovanu. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
During March 1910, Amerikas Savienoto Valstu ģenerālprokurors Padomes Bluffā, Aiova apsūdzēja Džonu C. Mabrajs (viņa īstā vārda versija, Mabry) un ducis apsūdzēto par pasta izmantošanu, lai profesionālajā boksā veiktu krāpšanos ar azartspēlēm, profesionālā cīkstēšanās, un profesionālas zirgu skriešanās sacīkstes. Mabry, mājlopu tirgotājs, kas dzīvo Kanzassitijā, Missouri, nodarbināja insaiderus boksā, cīkstēšanās, and horse
In the early morning hours of August 5, 1933, four safe burglars broke a window at the Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The burglars knocked a dial off the safe and removed $1,550.00 in federal stamps. Uz 2024 dollars, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Savas karjeras sākumā, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 and 1905. Laikā 1904 match, Beell won the only fall and match. Schoenlein wanted to avenge this defeat. In May 1905, Schoenlein’s manager secured a rematch in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein stood five feet, ten inches tall and weighed 210 mārciņas. Beell usually faced a
D. A. McMillan served as a competent journeyman wrestler during the last two decades of the 19th Century. McMillan wrestled American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns in a worked gambling scheme that a newspaper reporter exposed. While McMillan never won the American title, McMillan beat lesser competition before the better wrestlers like Burns defeated him. Decembrī 22, 1888,
In the fall of 1921, Jack Curley and Tex Rickard engaged in a promotional feud that started in professional boxing but spread to professional wrestling. Curley and Rickard settled their feud in a legitimate contest in November 1921. Curley selected John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek to act for him against Rickard’s wrestler Marin Plestina. Before Curley and Rickard could arrange
Ceturtdien, Oktobris 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. Janvārī 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Novembrī 1921, Džons “Nebraskas tīģeris” Peseks cīnījās likumīgā cīņā ar Marinu Plestīnu, lai atrisinātu reklāmas karu starp Džeku Kērliju un boksa popularizētāju Teksu Rikardu.. Peseks pārkāpa savainoto Plestina pārkāpumu, kurš nespēja sevi aizstāvēt. After the match, Rikards atgriezās boksā, kamēr Ņujorkas štata vieglatlētikas komisija aizliedza Pesekam cīkstēties Ņujorkā.