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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
I 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, Og “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, Thursday, November 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
On Tuesday, Januar 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. However, 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, en av de tidligste afroamerikanere, profesjonelle brytere, ble født Elmer Claybourn i Mexico, Missouri, på Mars 8, 1910. I 1910, Mexico var hjemsted for ca 5,939 residents. Claybourne startet sin profesjonelle brytekarriere i Missouri i 1931. Initially, Claybourne kjempet i Moberly i nærheten, Missouri. Moberly hadde en befolkning på 13,722 innbyggere sammenlignet med 8,290 innbyggere i Mexico, Missouri
Henry Moses Dufur held the World Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion during the 1870s. Av 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. Juni 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
Foruten å være det foretrukne stedet for profesjonelle boksere og brytere å trene når de er i St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium var vertskap for mindre boksing og bryting. I 1898, tidligere amerikanske mester i tungvektbryting Martin «Farmer» Burns kjempet med Oscar Wasem foran et lite publikum på Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns gikk over til å trene brytere på heltid og
På begynnelsen av 1930-tallet, de mektigste promotørene innen profesjonell bryting, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, og Tom Packs utførte dobbeltkryss på hverandre og skadet den generelle trekkraften til bryterne deres. Under reklamekrigen, Jack Pfefer stilte seg på linje med Jack Curley og "Toots" Mondt, som løp ut av New York City. In late 1933, Curley og