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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
में 1919, जॉन “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, और “स्ट्रेंजलर” लेविस, 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, नवंबर 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
मंगलवार को, जनवरी 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
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. तथापि, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, मिसौरी, on March 8, 1910. में 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Initially, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, मिसौरी. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, मिसौरी
Henry Moses Dufur held the World Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion during the 1870s. द्वारा 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. जून को 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. लेविस
सेंट में पेशेवर मुक्केबाजों और पहलवानों के प्रशिक्षण के लिए पसंदीदा स्थान होने के अलावा. लुइस, सेंट. लुइस बिजनेस मेन्स जिम्नेजियम ने छोटी मुक्केबाजी और कुश्ती प्रतियोगिताओं की मेजबानी की. में 1898, पूर्व अमेरिकी हैवीवेट कुश्ती चैंपियन मार्टिन "फार्मर" बर्न्स ने बिजनेस मेन्स जिम्नेजियम में एक छोटी भीड़ के सामने ऑस्कर वासेम से कुश्ती लड़ी।. बर्न्स पूर्णकालिक पहलवानों को प्रशिक्षित करने में परिवर्तन कर रहे थे
1930 के दशक की शुरुआत में, पेशेवर कुश्ती में सबसे शक्तिशाली प्रवर्तक, जैक कर्ली, जोसेफ "टुट्स" मोंड, पॉल बोसेर, और टॉम पैक्स ने एक-दूसरे पर डबल-क्रॉस मारे जिससे उनके पहलवानों की समग्र ड्राइंग शक्ति को नुकसान पहुंचा. प्रचार युद्ध के दौरान, जैक फ़ेफ़र ने खुद को जैक कर्ली और "टूट्स" मोंड के साथ जोड़ लिया, जो न्यूयॉर्क शहर से बाहर भाग गया. In late 1933, कर्ली और