Cora Livingston nyob 1908

Kuv txaj muag hais tias kuv nyuam qhuav sab cov hauj lwm ntawm Cora Livingston, Thaum researching txoj kev loj hlob ntawm lub zos promotor lawv nyob rau hauv kev wrestling thaum lub 1910s thiab 1920s. Mildred Burke yog tus thawj loj poj niam wrestling tau zus ib uas kuv twb paub. Txawm li cas los, Cora Livingston tau thov lub ntiaj teb Championship ib xyoo ua ntej Burke twb yug.

Cora Livingston was born Cora B. Tubbs in Buffalo, New York hauv 1886 los sis 1889. Livingston won a Buffalo wrestling tournament for women wrestlers right after Livingston graduated high school. Impressed by her natural ability in the ring, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Dan McLeod agreed to train Livingston for a professional wrestling career.

Livingston’s biggest challenge was a lack of other women wrestling professionally. In many areas of the country, promoters and local authorities barred women from attending the wrestling matches as spectators. These promoters and local officials would not allow Livingston to wrestle other women in these towns.

Livingston often had to find a city, where the authorities allowed her to wrestle. Livingston then put up $25.00 for any female wrestler, who could survive fifteen minutes with Livingston.

When Cora Livingston stopped in Washington, D.C., where authorities allowed Livingston to wrestle, she put the $25.00 prize up for all challengers. Livingston also claimed to be the American Woman’s Wrestling Champion based on her defeat of Hazel Parker.

On the first night of the two-week tour, Livingston threw a wrestler named May Colbert in five minutes. Livingston’s promoter Will Roehm introduced Livingston’s next opponent, Bertha Sparks. Txawm li cas los, an unidentified male manager stood up and demanded Livingston meet his great “unknown wrestler.” Sam Rachmann repeated a similar ploy to save the fall version ntawm lub 1915 New York Wrestling thoob ntiaj teb kev sib tw.

Roehm told the manager to sit down but the unknown’s manager excited the fans so much that Roehm had to agree to Livingston wrestling the “unknown” to prevent a riot. The “unknown” wrestled defensively trying to hold off Livingston for fifteen minutes.

Towards the end of the fifteen minutes, Livingston secured a guillotine choke, made famous by Evan “Strangler” Lewis as the stranglehold. The manager jumped in the ring and pried Livingston off the “unknown.” The manager claimed the “unknown” had lasted the fifteen minutes.

Roehm announced only fourteen minutes, forty seconds had passed. The referee Stanley Karp disqualified the “unknown” because the manager disrupted the match. The manager screamed about the decision leading Roehm to accept a finish match between Livingston and the “unknown” for the following week.

The next night, Bertha Sparks lasted the fifteen-minute time limit. Referee Stanley Karp tried to award a pinfall to Livingston at the ten-minute mark, but the fans booed him unmercifully. Fearing a riot, Karp waived off the fall. Based on her success, Roehm offered Sparks a finish match with Livingston for the following week.

Both matches drew big houses. Livingston wrestled Sparks first. Livingston won the match, but it took her twenty-two minutes to pin Sparks.

Livingston wrestled the “unknown” next. Without the need for a quick pin due to the open-ended time limit, Livingston elbowed, palm struck and fouled the “unknown.” Eventually, Livingston secured a guillotine choke on the unknown. The referee warned Livingston to break the hold. When Livingston refused, the referee disqualified Livingston. While Livingston ended the tour on a loss, Livingston and the other wrestlers drew full houses.

Hmoov tsis, Roehm was not highly creative. Roehm used the same series of matches, in the same sequence with the same wrestlers throughout each tour. When Roehm and Livingston stopped in Boston, Massachusetts, ib New York Herald reporter attended the matches. The Herald took great glee in reporting the same wrestlers under different names except for Livingston worked the same matches exposing Roehm and his wrestlers for working the matches.

Livingston continued to have a lucrative wrestling career. A decade later, Livingston would break more professional wrestling barriers.

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