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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Neseniai „YouTube“ atradau trijų minučių klipą, kuriame buvo du Jimas Londosas’ 1930-ųjų degtukų. Pirmose rungtynėse, Londonas kovoja su Abe Coleman. Antrose rungtynėse, Londonas kovoja mišrių stilių rungtyje su Oki Shikina, kurį treniravo Taro Miyake, dziudo juodasis diržas ir profesionalus imtynininkas. Londonas buvo didžiausia kasų žvaigždė
Penktadienį, Lapkritis 27, 1891, Buvęs Amerikos sunkiasvorių imtynių čempionas Joe Actonas San Franciske kovojo su būsimu pasaulio sunkiasvorių bokso čempionu Bobu Fitzsimmonsu, Kalifornija. Vyrai grūmėsi dėl pranešimo $1,000.00 purse. Actonas paprastai atsisakydavo savo oponento dydžio, bet Actonas septyniais svarais nusvėrė 148 svarus Fitzsimmons. Vyrai kovojo du iš trijų kritimų rungtyje pagal imtynes „pagauk kaip pagauk“
Gruodžio 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Misūris. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, Kansas. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
Lapkričio 18, 1938, buvęs pasaulio imtynių čempionas Jimas Londosas kovojo su dabartiniu pasaulio čempionu Bronko Nagurskiu, puikus buvęs Čikagos „Bears“ futbolininkas. Vyrai kovojo Filadelfijoje, Pensilvanija, skirta Nagurskio pasaulio imtynių čempionato versijai. Visas 14 minučių rungtynes galite peržiūrėti „YouTube“.. Kai pirmą kartą žiūrėjau rungtynes, several
Gegužės 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, Ohajas. Ismail only toured the United States for six months in the early part of 1898. Ismail wrestled less than ten matches but left a path of destruction remembered to this day. Ismail made a powerful impression by easily defeating both Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Ismail also made a strong
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled two of the most famous legitimate contests of the 1920s. Pesek ended two promotional wars by agreeing to “shoot” contests with Marin Plestina and Nat Pendelton. Į 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. On Thursday, Rugsėjis 14, 1916, Pesek wrestled another Nebraska wrestler, Chris Jordan. Fans and
Born Norman Edward Wescoatt in Hawaii on August 2, 1911, “Rusty” Wescoatt played football for the University of Hawaii before making his professional wrestling debut in Hawaii during 1933. Wescoatt was also a swimming champion. Wescoatt initially made more news for his swimming than his wrestling when he traveled to the continental United States in 1935. On Easter Sunday, Balandis
Stanislaus Zbyszko toured the United States in 1910 in preparation for a title match with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch later in the year. His tour brought him to St. Louis on May 29, 1910. Zbyszko was scheduled to meet highly regarded light heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson was a skilled wrestler, who trained with St. Louis wrestler George
I am ashamed to say I recently discovered the career of Cora Livingston, while researching the development of the local promotor system in professional wrestling during the 1910s and 1920s. Mildred Burke was the first major woman’s wrestling champion of which I was aware. Tačiau, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
On March 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed on the last night of the International Wrestling Tournament in Detroit, Michigan. The tournament ran for almost two months before the finale on March 10th. Wrestling historians frequently credit J. H. McLaughlin as being the first professional wrestler to live only on his earnings as a professional wrestler. Most professional wrestlers