Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about professional wrestling from 1870 to 1930.
Am Dienstag, Dezember 12, 1916, local favorite, John “Der Nebraska-Tigermann” Pesek wrestled fellow shooter, Al “Dutch” Mantell, in a worked match. Pesek recently trained with fellow Nebraska wrestler and recognized World Champion Joe Stecher prior to this match. Pesek developed a notorious reputation for shooting with other wrestlers. Jedoch, Pesek was a 22-year-old up-and-comer still learning to wrestle, when
In the early 1880s, Sorakichi Matsuda, or Matsada in most American newspapers, traveled to the United States to wrestle professionally. Japan did not have a developed professional wrestling circuit, so Matsuda thought he would bring the sport back to Japan after an apprenticeship in the United States. After training for a while, Matsuda signed an agreement to wrestle the first
Oscar Wasem started his career in St. Louis, Missouri under the tutelage of George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, die St. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, darunter zwei von Jim Londos’ Streichhölzer aus den 1930er Jahren. Im ersten Spiel, Londos ringt mit Abe Coleman. Im zweiten Spiel, Londos ringt mit Oki Shikina in einem Mixed-Styles-Match, who was trained by Taro Miyake, der Judo-Schwarzgurt und professioneller Wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
Am Freitag,, November 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, Kalifornien. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 purse. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
On December 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Missouri. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, Kansas. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
On November 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
On May 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail hat in Cleveland mit Tom Jenkins gerungen, Ohio. Ismail tourte Anfang des Jahres nur für sechs Monate durch die Vereinigten Staaten 1898. Ismail rang weniger als zehn Matches, hinterließ aber einen Pfad der Zerstörung, an den man sich bis heute erinnert. Ismail hinterließ einen starken Eindruck, indem er beide Evan „Strangler“ Lewis mühelos besiegte. Auch Ismail machte stark
John „The Nebraska Tigerman“ Pesek hat in den 1920er Jahren an zwei der berühmtesten legitimen Wettkämpfe teilgenommen. Pesek beendete zwei Werbekriege, indem er sich bereit erklärte, Wettbewerbe mit Marin Plestina und Nat Pendelton zu „schießen“.. In 1916, Pesek war ein aufstrebender Wrestler, der in seinem Heimatstaat Nebraska aktiv war. Am Donnerstag,, September 14, 1916, Pesek rang mit einem anderen Wrestler aus Nebraska, Chris Jordan. Fans u
August als Norman Edward Wescoatt auf Hawaii geboren 2, 1911, „Rusty“ Wescoatt spielte Football für die University of Hawaii, bevor er dort sein professionelles Wrestling-Debüt gab 1933. Wescoatt war auch ein Schwimmmeister. Wescoatt machte zunächst mehr Neuigkeiten für sein Schwimmen als für sein Wrestling, als er in die kontinentalen Vereinigten Staaten reiste 1935. Am Ostersonntag, April