Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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, Och “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
På tisdag, Januari 29, 1884, cirka två tusen fans trängdes in i Detroit Opera House för att titta på den första i en serie på två matcher mellan överste James H. McLaughlin och Henry Moses Dufur. Publiken fick glädja arrangörerna och brottarna. Tändstickor som drog till sig tusentals publik var sällsynta under 1800-talet. Arrangörerna hävdade att McLaughlin försvarade amerikanen
Jim Londos steg genom raden av professionell brottning för att bli den största box office-stjärnan på inte bara 1930-talet utan genom tiderna. Emellertid, om Londos inte hade kommit till St. Louis i början av 1920-talet, historien kunde ha varit helt annorlunda. Londos lärde sig catch-as-catch-can-brottning medan Londos uppträdde som en stark man i karnevalskretsen under
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. I 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Initialt, 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 held the World Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion during the 1870s. Genom 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. On June 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
Förutom att vara den föredragna platsen för professionella boxare och brottare att träna när de är i St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men's Gymnasium var värd för mindre boxnings- och brottningsevenemang. I 1898, tidigare amerikanska mästaren i tungviktsbrottning Martin "Farmer" Burns brottades Oscar Wasem inför en liten publik på Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns övergick till att träna brottare på heltid och
Under tidigt 1930-tal, de mäktigaste promotorerna inom professionell brottning, en noterad "fnask" eller skicklig submission wrestler, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, och Tom Packs körde dubbelkors på varandra och skadade deras brottares totala dragkraft. Under kampanjkriget, Jack Pfefer anpassade sig till Jack Curley och "Toots" Mondt, som sprang från New York City. In late 1933, Curley och