Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Sisse 1919, John “Nebraska tiigermees” Pesek leidis end Marin Plestinaga samast positsioonist. Domineeriv maadlususaldus ei annaks Pesekile matši ühega “Suur Nelik” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, ja Wladek Zbyszko. Stecheriga ei õnnestu matši kindlustada, Liiva maadles Omahas Jim Londosega, oktoobril Nebraska 10,
Tänupühal Ameerikas, Thursday, November 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout maadles New Yorgis Madison Square Gardenis endise Ameerika raskekaalu maadlusmeistri Tom Jenkinsiga. Mahmout käis hiljuti USA-s, et maadleda Frank Gotchiga maadluse raskekaalu maailmameistrivõistlusteks. Kui Mahmout alistas Jenkinsi, Mahmout osutub Gotchi heauskseks väljakutsujaks. Jenkins oli
Teisipäeval, Jaanuar 29, 1884, umbes kaks tuhat fänni kogunes Detroidi ooperimajja, et vaadata esimest kahemängulisest seeriast kolonel James H.. McLaughlin ja Henry Moses Dufur. Rahvas pidi korraldajaid ja maadlejaid rõõmustama. 19. sajandil olid matšid, mis kogusid tuhandeid rahvahulki, haruldased. Korraldajad väitsid, et McLaughlin kaitses ameeriklast
Jim Londos tõusis professionaalse maadluse ridades, et saada mitte ainult 1930. aastate, vaid kõigi aegade suurimaks kassastaariks. Siiski, kui London poleks tulnud St. Louis 1920. aastate alguses, lugu oleks võinud olla hoopis teistsugune. Londos õppis püüda-saagi-saab maadlust, samal ajal kui Londos esines karnevaliringil tugeva mehena.
Jack Claybourne, üks varasemaid afroameeriklasi, professionaalsed maadlejad, sündis Elmer Claybourn Mehhikos, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. Sisse 1910, Mehhiko oli koduks umbes 5,939 residents. Claybourne alustas oma professionaalset maadluskarjääri Missouris aastal 1931. Esialgu, Claybourne maadles lähedalasuvas Moberlys, Missouri. Moberly rahvaarv oli 13,722 elanikega võrreldes 8,290 elanikud Mehhikos, Missouri
Henry Moses Dufur held the World Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion during the 1870s. Poolt 1855, Dufur retired from professional wrestling to pursue his full-time profession of clothing tailor. Even during his wrestling career, Dufur worked as a tailor. Dufur told the correspondent from The Boston Globe that he was born in Richford, Vermont on June 5, 1943. This date of
Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. Juunil 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans
Wrestling historians consider either Ed “Strangler” Lewis or Frank Gotch to be the greatest American professional wrestler. While we know quite a bit about the early career of Frank Gotch, we know much less about the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Various sources claim Lewis learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling in the carnivals when he was only fourteen years old. Lewis
Besides being the preferred venue for professional boxers and wrestlers to train when in St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium hosted smaller boxing and wrestling events. Sisse 1898, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem in front of a small crowd at the Business Men’s Gymnasium. Burns was transitioning into training wrestlers full-time and
During the early 1930s, the most powerful promoters in professional wrestling, Jack Curley, Joseph “Toots” Mondt, Paul Bowser, and Tom Packs executed double-crosses on each other hurting the overall drawing power of their wrestlers. During the promotional war, Jack Pfefer aligned himself with Jack Curley and “Toots” Mondt, who ran out of New York City. Aasta lõpus 1933, Curley and