Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 till 1930.
På torsdag, Oktober 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. På Januari 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.
I 1919, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” 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, Och “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, November 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
På tisdag, Januari 29, 1884, cirka två tusen fans trängdes in i Detroit Opera House för att titta på den första i en serie på två matcher mellan överste James H. McLaughlin och Henry Moses Dufur. Publiken fick glädja arrangörerna och brottarna. Tändstickor som drog till sig tusentals publik var sällsynta under 1800-talet. Arrangörerna hävdade att McLaughlin försvarade amerikanen
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. I 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Initialt, 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
Förutom att vara den föredragna platsen för professionella boxare och brottare att träna när de är i St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium var värd för mindre boxnings- och brottningsevenemang. I 1898, tidigare amerikanska mästaren i tungviktsbrottning Martin "Farmer" Burns brottades Oscar Wasem inför en liten publik på Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns övergick till att träna brottare på heltid och
Under tidigt 1930-tal, de mäktigaste promotorerna inom professionell brottning, en noterad "fnask" eller skicklig submission wrestler, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, och Tom Packs körde dubbelkors på varandra och skadade deras brottares totala dragkraft. Under kampanjkriget, Jack Pfefer anpassade sig till Jack Curley och "Toots" Mondt, som sprang från New York City. In late 1933, Curley och