Category: Hanes Reslo Proffesiynol Cynnar

William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. Joseph “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with

Yn 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was

James Hiram McLaughlin holds the distinction of being the first American professional wrestler. While people wrestled professionally before McLaughlin, he was the first to earn a professional living from wrestling. McLaughlin began wrestling professionally in 1860 yn 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. Erbyn 1877,

In the early 1920s, Christos Theofilou began wrestling as Jim Londos after several years as the gimmicky “Wrestling Plasterer”. Londos probably didn’t realize that the name change would be the first step into him becoming the biggest box office attraction in 1930s professional wrestling. The second step was his emergence as a main event wrestler in St. Louis. Born in

Ar Orffennaf 4, 1922, Alan Eustace received his shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Eustace, the Kansas Champion, won a qualifying match with “Farmer” Bailey in March 1922 to qualify for the match with Lewis. 31-year-old Eustace was the same age as “Strangler” Lewis but Lewis was far more experienced. Debuting at 14 mlwydd oed,

Since its emergence as a spectator sport in the second half of the 19th Century, promoters and wrestlers were under a cloud of suspicion that they were working their matches. While professional wrestling would eventually consist almost exclusively of staged exhibitions, many, if not most, of the matches were legitimate contest prior to 1915. Promoters and wrestlers went to great

In early 1915, Hyrwyddodd Sam Rachmann Twrnamaint Reslo Rhyngwladol Efrog Newydd gyda'r bwriad o ddisodli Pencampwr reslo Pwysau Trwm y Byd, Frank Gotch, sydd wedi ymddeol. Credai Rachmann na allai unrhyw un drechu Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, Olynydd Rachmann i Gotch, yn reslo Greco-Rufeinig. Her Rachmann oedd dal-fel-dal-can oedd yr arddull reslo amlycaf yn America. I fynd o gwmpas yr her hon, Recriwtiodd Rachmann yn rhyngwladol

Yn 1922, Dechreuodd Jim Browning, Pencampwr reslo Pwysau Trwm y Byd yn y dyfodol, ei yrfa yn Kansas. Symudodd Browning o'i dref enedigol, Verona, Missouri in 1921 i hyfforddi ar gyfer gyrfa reslo broffesiynol. Tom Law, y Wichita, Hyrwyddwr Kansas, goruchwylio hyfforddiant Browning. By May 1923, Roedd Browning eisoes yn y prif ddigwyddiad mewn sioeau llai. Ar Augusta, Cerdyn Kansas, Ymladdodd Browning

Ar Fawrth 3, 1922, Ed “Strangler” Adenillodd Lewis Bencampwriaeth reslo pwysau trwm y byd gan Stanislaus Zbyszko. Roedd y digwyddiad hwn yn nodi dechrau un o'r cyfuniadau reslo proffesiynol mwyaf blaenllaw mewn hanes. Rheolwr Billy Sandow, Pencampwr y Byd Ed “Strangler” Lewis a phartner hyfforddi / athrylith hyrwyddo Joseph “Toots” Mondt, known as the “Triawd Llwch Aur”, dominated the sport for the next six

In the early 1920s, Fe argyhoeddodd Billy Sandow hyrwyddwr Georgia, Tom Law, i symud i Wichita, Kansas a datblygu'r ardal ar gyfer sioeau reslo yn y dyfodol. Byddai'r Midwest Americanaidd yn generadur refeniw sylweddol ar gyfer y Triawd Llwch Aur, a arweiniodd Sandow gyda Phencampwr y Byd Ed “Strangler” Lewis a'r athrylith hyrwyddo Joseph “Toots” Mondt, yn y 1920au. Byddai'r gyfraith yn cynhyrchu dau