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Posts about professional wrestling in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
Txog rau hnub Friday, Kaum ib hlis 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, California. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 hnab tawv pojniam. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Missouri. 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
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, ntau
Saum ntuj 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, Ohio. 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. Nyob rau hauv 1916, Pesek was an up-and-coming wrestler active in his home state of Nebraska. Txog hnub plaub, Cuaj hlis 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, Tim
Stanislaus Zbyszko toured hauv tebchaws 1910 nyob hauv kev npaj rau lub npe match nrog ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling tau zus ib Frank Gotch hauv lub xyoo. Ncig saib nws coj nws mus rau me nyuam. Louis saum ntuj 29, 1910. Zbyszko twb teem tau rau qhov yus mas txawm lub teeb heavyweight grappler Charley Olson. Olson yog ib cov koom wrestler, cov me nyuam uas kawm. 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. Txawm li cas los, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed rau nag hmo ntawm tus International Wrestling kev sib tw nyob detroit, Michigan. Cov kev sib tw khiav yuav luag ob lub hlis ua ntej qhov kawg nkaus rau lub peb hlis ntuj 10th. Wrestling historians nquag credit J. H. McLaughlin li yog tus thawj kev wrestler nyob xwb rau nws khwv nyiaj ua ib wrestler wrestler. Feem ntau cov wrestlers wrestlers