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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 li 1930.
Nhar il-Ħamis, Ottubru 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. Fuq Jannar 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 1921, John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ġġieled kompetizzjoni leġittima ma' Marin Plestina biex isolvi gwerra promozzjonali bejn Jack Curley u l-promotur tal-boxing Tex Rickard. Pesek fawl fuq Plestina mweġġa’, li kien bla sahha biex jiddefendi lilu nnifsu. After the match, Rickard irritorna għall-boxing filwaqt li l-Kummissjoni tal-Atletika tal-Istat ta’ New York ipprojbixxa lil Pesek milli jiġġieled fi New York.
Fil 1919, John “It-Tigerman ta' Nebraska” Pesek sab ruħu fl-istess pożizzjoni ta’ Marin Plestina. It-trust dominanti tal-lotta ma kienx jagħti lil Pesek taqbila ma’ wieħed mill- “Erbgħa Kbar” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, u Wladek Zbyszko. Ma tistax tassigura partita ma' Stecher, Sand wrestled Jim Londos f'Omaha, Nebraska f'Ottubru 10,
Fuq Thanksgiving fl-Amerika, Thursday, Novembru 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout ġġieled lill-eks Champion Amerikan tal-Lotta Heavyweight Tom Jenkins f'Madison Square Garden fi New York City. Mahmout reċentement lejn l-Istati Uniti biex jiġġieled Frank Gotch għall-Kampjonat Dinji tal-Lotta Heavyweight. Jekk Mahmout għeleb lil Jenkins, Mahmout ikun sfidant bona fide għal Gotch. Jenkins kien il-
Nhar it-Tlieta, Jannar 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, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, dwar Marzu 8, 1910. Fil 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Initially, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
L-istoriċi tal-lotta jqisu jew lil Ed "Strangler" Lewis jew lil Frank Gotch bħala l-akbar wrestler professjonali Amerikan.. Filwaqt li nafu pjuttost ftit dwar il-karriera bikrija ta’ Frank Gotch, nafu ħafna inqas dwar il-karriera bikrija ta 'Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Diversi sorsi jsostnu li Lewis tgħallem il-lotta catch-as-catch-can fil-karnivals meta kellu biss erbatax-il sena.. Lewis
Minbarra li huwa l-post preferut għal boxers u wrestlers professjonali biex jitħarrġu meta jkunu f’St. Louis, San. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium ospita avvenimenti iżgħar tal-boxing u tal-lotta. Fil 1898, l-eks Champion Amerikan tal-Lotta tal-Piż Tqil Martin "Farmer" Burns ġġieled lil Oscar Wasem quddiem folla żgħira fil-Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns kien qed isir transizzjoni għal wrestlers taħriġ full-time u
Matul il-bidu tas-snin tletin, l-aktar promoturi qawwija fil-lotta professjonali, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, u Tom Packs esegwiti double-crosses fuq xulxin li jweġġgħu l-qawwa ġenerali tal-ġbid tal-wrestlers tagħhom. Matul il-gwerra promozzjonali, Jack Pfefer allinja ruħu ma 'Jack Curley u "Toots" Mondt, li spiċċaw minn New York City. Fl-aħħar 1933, Curley u