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Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 mus 1930.
Lub caij nplooj zeeg 1921, Jack Curley thiab Tex Rickard nrog ib promotional feud uas pib nyob rau hauv kev boxing tab sis kis mus rau kev wrestling. Curley thiab Rickard tswm lawv feud hauv ib contest tseeb contest rau lub kaum ib hlis 1921. Curley xaiv John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ua rau nws tiv thaiv Rickard wrestler Marin Plestina. Ua ntej Curley thiab Rickard yuav npaj
Txog hnub plaub, Lub kaum hli ntuj 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. Xwb, 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. Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Thaum lub kaum ib hlis 1921, John "Tus Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek wrestled ib contest tseeb contest nrog Marin Plestina khom ib promotional tsov rog ntawm Jack Curley thiab boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled ib raug mob Plestina, leej twg yog pab cug nws tus kheej. Tom qab ntais ntawv, Rickard rov qab mus boxing thaum lub xeev New York ncaws Commission banned Pesek ntawm wrestling nyob New York.
Nyob rau hauv 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, Ed “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, Hnub plaub, Kaum ib hlis 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
Tuesday, Lub ib hlis ntuj 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, nyob tim 8, 1910. Nyob rau hauv 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 cov neeg. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Chiv, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Wrestling historians xav txog xws li Ed "Strangler" Lewis los yog Frank Gotch yuav tus loj tshaj American kev wrestler. Thaum peb paub heev txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Frank Gotch, Peb paub ntau tsawg txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Ntau qhov chaw thov Lewis kawm catch-as-catch-can wrestling hauv lub carnivals thaum nws tsuas plaub xyoos. Lewis
Besides yog tus najnpawb venue rau kev boxers thiab wrestlers los qhia thaum nyob st. Louis, cov me nyuam. Louis lag luam txiv neej Gymnasium hosted me boxing thiab wrestling txheej xwm. Nyob rau hauv 1898, Qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin "Farmer" Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem pem lub taub hau ib pawg neeg me me ntawm cov txiv neej ua hauj lwm gymnasium. Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv txoj kev kawm wrestlers full-time thiab