Pesek Bests Londos

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У 1919, Џон “The Nebraska TigermanPesek found himself in the same position as Marin Plestina. The dominant wrestling trust would not give Pesek a match with one of theBig Four” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, И “Давитељ” Луис, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,

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Mahmout Beats Jenkins in Straight Falls

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On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, Новембар 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

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McLaughlin Defends Title?

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У уторак, Јануар 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

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Londos Defeats Kolov

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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. <Спан ббок_к = "289" ббок_и = "553" ббок_в = "56" ббок_х = "20" фсизе = "14" фвеигхт = "3" црвено = "255" зелено = "255" плави = "255" алфа = ", 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

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Jack Claybourne’s Missouri Roots

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Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Мисури, on March 8, 1910. У 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, Мисури. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Мисури

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Хенри Мосес Дуфур Реминисценцес

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Henry Moses Dufur held the World Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion during the 1870s. По 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

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Dufur Draws with Cox

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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. Јуна 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

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Before He Was Ed “Давитељ” Луис

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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. Луис

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Бурнс се рва са Васемом

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Осим што је то омиљено место за тренирање професионалних боксера и рвача када су у Ст. Лоуис, Свети. Лоуис Бусинесс Мен’с Гимнасиум је био домаћин мањих догађаја у боксу и рвању. У 1898, бивши амерички шампион у рвању у тешкој категорији Мартин „Фармер“ Бернс рвао се са Оскаром Васемом пред малом публиком у Гимназији за пословне људе. Бернс је прешао у обуку рвача са пуним радним временом и

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Јацк Пфефер разоткрива професионално рвање

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Током раних 1930-их, најмоћнији промотери у професионалном рвању, Јацк Цурлеи, Џозеф „Тоотс“ Мондт, Паул Бовсер, и Том Пацкс су извршили дупле крстове један на другог, што је повредило укупну моћ цртања својих рвача. Током промотивног рата, Џек Пфефер се придружио Џеку Карлију и „Тутсу“ Мондту, који је побегао из Њујорка. In late 1933, Цурлеи анд

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