Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 te 1930.
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
On Thursday, 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. In plaas daarvan, 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. Januarie 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 “Die 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, En “Worger” 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
Op Dinsdag, Januarie 29, 1884, ongeveer tweeduisend aanhangers het in die Detroit Opera House saamgedrom om die eerste van 'n reeks van twee wedstryde tussen kolonel James H te kyk. McLaughlin en Henry Moses Dufur. Die skare moes die organiseerders en stoeiers verheug. Vuurhoutjies wat skares in die duisende getrek het, was skaars gedurende die 19de eeu. Organiseerders het beweer McLaughlin verdedig die Amerikaner
Jack Claybourne, een van die vroegste Afro-Amerikaanse, professionele stoeiers, is gebore Elmer Claybourn in Mexiko, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. In 1910, Mexiko was die tuiste van ongeveer 5,939 residents. Claybourne het sy professionele stoeiloopbaan in Missouri in 1931. Aanvanklik, Claybourne het in die nabygeleë Moberly gestoei, Missouri. Moberly het 'n bevolking van 13,722 inwoners in vergelyking met 8,290 inwoners in Mexiko, Missouri
Stoeigeskiedkundiges beskou óf Ed “Strangler” Lewis óf Frank Gotch as die grootste Amerikaanse professionele stoeier. Terwyl ons nogal 'n bietjie weet van die vroeë loopbaan van Frank Gotch, ons weet baie minder van die vroeë loopbaan van Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Verskeie bronne beweer Lewis het vang-as-vang-blik leer stoei in die karnavalle toe hy net veertien jaar oud was. Lewis
Behalwe dat dit die voorkeurplek is vir professionele boksers en stoeiers om te oefen wanneer hulle in St. Louis, die St. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium het kleiner boks- en stoeibyeenkomste aangebied. In 1898, voormalige Amerikaanse swaargewigstoeikampioen Martin "Farmer" Burns het Oscar Wasem voor 'n klein skare by die Business Men's Gymnasium gestoei. Burns was besig om oor te skakel na die opleiding van stoeiers voltyds en