Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 ut 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
Die Jovis, Aliquam 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. On January 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 “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” – Comes Caddock, Iosephus Stecher, Et “Strangulatam” 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
Die martis, January 29, 1884, circiter duo milia nisl in Opera Domus Detroit frequentes spectare ad primam seriem duplicem compositus inter Colonellum James H. McLaughlin et Henricus Moses Dufur. turba delectetur auctorum et luctatorum. Matches turbas in mille ducens rarae per 19th Century. Organiatores affirmaverunt McLaughlin defendebat Americanos
Jack Claybourne, unus ex primis African-American, professional athletae, natus est Elmer Claybourn in Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. In 1910, Mexico in domum suam ut de 5,939 residents. Claybourne in Missouri in Missouri professionem suam incepit luctando 1931. Initio, Claybourne luctatus est in prope Moberly, Missouri. Moberly erat multitudo 13,722 habitant comparari 8,290 habitant in Mexico, Missouri
Luctandum historici putant aut Ed "Strangler" Ludovicum aut Franciscum Gotch summum esse luctatorem Americanae professio. Dum satis scimus paulum de curriculo veterum Francorum Gotch ., multo minus scimus de curriculo veterum Ed "Strangler" Lewis .. Varii fontes affirmant Ludovicum doctissimum capere-ut-capere luctari in carnivalibus cum tantum quattuordecim annos natus esset.. Lewis
Praeterquam visne maluit pugiles et luctatores ad professos instituendi cum in St. Ludovicus, in S.. Ludovici Negotia Men's Gymnasium hosted minores pugilatu et luctando eventa. In 1898, pristinus American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin "Farmer" Burns luctatus est Oscar Wasem ante parvam turbam in Gymnasium Men Negotii. Ardet transitus ad palaestras palaestrae plena tempus et