Eipeasóid 77 – Don’t Call Me Barney!
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Sa chlár seo, we discuss Bernarr MacFadden’s professional wrestling career in St. Louis, Missouri.
Nuashonraigh
I discuss a recent email and provide an update on the Divided Championship project.
Artist rendering of lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler B. A. McFadden in St. Louis. McFadden later became the publisher Bernarr MacFadden (Fearann Poiblí)
Main Content
For years, I could not find any account of Bernarr MacFadden’s exploits as a professional wrestler in St. Louis. While research the beginnings of what would become Tom Packs’ St. Louis wrestling promotion in 1921 agus 1922, I stumbled across an article that listed B.A. McFadden’s match with Max Luttbeg as one of the best matches held in St. Louis.
In 1893 agus 1894, MacFadden was Barney McFadden, skilled lightweight Greco-Roman professional wrestler. Only 25-years-old, McFadden already contemplated retirement to enter the publishing business.
I mí Eanáir 1894, McFadden wrestled Luttbeg in his final professional wrestling match. We discuss the controversial match in this episode.
Recommendation
I recommend the remaining video of the 1928 cluiche teidil between Ed “Strangler” Lewis and NFL star Gus Sonnenberg. Lewis trained Sonnenberg for the ring.
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Sources: St. Louis Iar-Seolta (St. Louis, Missouri) Eanáir 1, 1894, p. 7 and January 28, 1894, p. 8
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