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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
V 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, In “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
V torek, 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. Vendar, 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, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. V 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Najprej, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Henry Moses Dufur je bil v sedemdesetih letih 19. stoletja svetovni prvak v rokoborbi z ovratnikom in komolcem v težki kategoriji.. Jo 1855, Dufur se je upokojil iz profesionalne rokoborbe, da bi redno opravljal poklic krojača oblačil. Tudi med svojo rokoborsko kariero, Dufur je delal kot krojač. Dufur je dopisniku The Boston Globe povedal, da je rojen v Richfordu, junija v Vermontu 5, 1943. Ta datum od
Henry Moses Dufur se je specializiral za rokoborbo z ovratnikom in komolcem, ko se je Dufur profesionalno boril v 1870-ih in 1880-ih. Rojen maja 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur se je boril predvsem na severovzhodu ZDA. On June 27, 1878, Dufur se je boril v povratnem dvoboju z rokoborcem po imenu Cox v bostonskem baseball parku pred petsto navijači. Petsto navijačev
Rokoborski zgodovinarji menijo, da sta Ed "Strangler" Lewis ali Frank Gotch največja ameriška profesionalna rokoborca. Čeprav vemo kar nekaj o zgodnji karieri Franka Gotcha, veliko manj vemo o zgodnji karieri Eda »Davitelja« Lewisa. Različni viri trdijo, da se je Lewis na karnevalih naučil rokoborbe "ujemi, ko ulovi, ko je bil star komaj štirinajst let".. Lewis
Poleg tega, da je to priljubljeno prizorišče za treninge profesionalnih boksarjev in rokoborcev v St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium je gostil manjše boksarske in rokoborske dogodke. V 1898, nekdanji ameriški prvak v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Martin "Farmer" Burns se je boril z Oscarjem Wasemom pred majhno množico v dvorani Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns je začel trenirati rokoborce s polnim delovnim časom in
V zgodnjih 1930-ih, najmočnejših promotorjev v profesionalni rokoborbi, Tex Rickard je napovedal vojno svojemu nekdanjemu boksarskemu promocijskemu partnerju, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, in Tom Packs sta izvajala dvojne napade drug na drugem, kar je prizadelo skupno moč njunih rokoborcev. Med promocijsko vojno, Jack Pfefer se je povezal z Jackom Curleyjem in "Tootsom" Mondtom, ki je pobegnil iz New Yorka. V pozno 1933, Curley in