รากมิสซูรีของ Jack Claybourne

แจ็ค เคลย์บอร์น, หนึ่งในชาวแอฟริกันอเมริกันที่เก่าแก่ที่สุด, นักมวยปล้ำอาชีพ, เกิดเอลเมอร์ เคลย์บอร์นที่เม็กซิโก, รัฐมิสซูรี่, มีนาคม 8, 1910. <ช่วง bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1470" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = " 1910, เม็กซิโกเป็นบ้านเกี่ยวกับ 5,939 residents.

Claybourne เริ่มต้นอาชีพมวยปล้ำอาชีพในมิสซูรีในปี 1931. Initially, Claybourne ปล้ำที่ Moberly ที่อยู่ใกล้เคียง, รัฐมิสซูรี่. โมเบอร์ลีมีประชากรจำนวน 13,722 ผู้อยู่อาศัยเมื่อเทียบกับ 8,290 ผู้ที่อาศัยอยู่ในเม็กซิโก, Missouri in 1930.

Both Moberly and Mexico, Missouri are part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan area. The close proximity to Mexico allowed Claybourn to stay home but start his professional career.

Promoters billed Claybourne from Kansas City, Kansas. It was not unusual for promoters to bill a wrestler from somewhere else particularly if they wanted the fans to think they were drawing wrestlers from outside the area.

ในวันศุกร์ที่, เมษายน 15, 1932, Claybourne wrestled Jack Triene, also billed from Kansas City, in a two-out-of-three-falls match. Triene won the first fall but Claybourne took the next two. Claybourne won the second fall with an airplane spin, the first time a Moberly crowd ever witnessed the event.

“Wild Red” Berry, a future professional wrestling legend, won the first match on the card. Two weeks later on Friday, เมษายน 29, 1932, Claybourne and Berry wrestled in Moberly in the only two matches on the card.

In the main event, Claybourne wrestled George Koindaris of Kirksville, Missouri in the main event of the two match card. Claybourne won the first fall of a two-out-of-three-falls match with a body pin.

Koindaris used a flying headlock and body slam to defeat Claybourne for the second fall. Koindaris used the same combination during the third fall causing Claybourne to fall head first out of the ring.

Claybourne made it back into the ring but Koindaris pinned him easily for the third fall and match. Berry won two-out-of-three-falls in the opening match versus one of the many “Terrible Turks” to wrestle over the years.

Claybourne achieved the biggest accomplishment of his career, when Claybourne defeated the Ethiopian wrestler Hallie Samara for Samara’s World Championship reserved for Black wrestlers in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday, <ช่วง bbox_x = "324" bbox_y = "509" bbox_w = "53" bbox_h fsize = "17" = "11" fweight = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = สีฟ้า "210" = "31" อัลฟา = " 2, 1941 at the Allen Sports Arena.

Samara won the first fall in fifteen minutes, twenty-one seconds with a flying tackle. Claybourne evened up the match with a rolling headlock at twelve minutes, eight seconds of the second fall. Claybourne won the title at twenty-two minutes, thirty-eight seconds of the third fall with a body kick and slam.

The match with Samara was the third of a three match series in Louisville. Promoters recognized Claybourne as the Black World Heavyweight Champion at least as late as 1948.

During his career Claybourne wrestled Harold Sakata, Samara, the original Jules Strongbow (Los Angeles booker), Frank Jares, “Whipper” Billy Watson, Mike DiBiase, Szandor Szabo, และ “Bulldog” Danny Plechas.

Claybourne main evented at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, แคลิฟอร์เนีย, where Claybourne settled with his family. เมื่อวันที่ 7, 1960, at forty-nine years of age, Claybourne tragically took his own life.

Claybourne struggled to get bookings and talked about committing suicide for seven months before he took his life. Claybourne drank heavily during this time making his depression worse. His drinking and depression caused him to argue with his wife Lillian causing Jack Claybourne to spiral down further.

On the afternoon of January 7th, Jack Claybourne called Lillian and told her that he just had an argument with their daughter over riding her bicycle. Realizing that Jack Claybourne was more upset than he should have been over a minor argument, Lillian asked a friend to accompany her to the Claybourne’s house.

Lillian and her friend found Claybourne laying on the bathroom floor in a pool of blood. Claybourne shot himself with his shotgun bringing a premature end to his storied life.

Sources: Moberly Monitor-Index and Moberly Evening Democrat (Moberly, รัฐมิสซูรี่), เมษายน 16, 1932, พี. 5 and April 30, 1932, พี. 5, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), <ช่วง bbox_x = "324" bbox_y = "509" bbox_w = "53" bbox_h fsize = "17" = "11" fweight = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = สีฟ้า "210" = "31" อัลฟา = " 3, 1941, พี. 22 and California Eagle (Los Angeles, แคลิฟอร์เนีย), มกราคม 14, 1960, พี. 1, 4

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