론도스는 오데온 극장에서 레슬링을 펼칩니다.

짐 론도스는 1930년대 프로레슬링 최대 박스오피스 스타로 성장했습니다.. Londos는 야구 경기장에서 Ed "Strangler" Lewis와 Jim Browning을 상대로 메인 이벤트를 벌였습니다.. 이 경기에는 100만 명 이상의 군중이 모였습니다. 30,000 두 번째 Gotch 대 경기 이후 처음으로 팬. 하켄슈미트 1911. 론도스가 그리스에서 레슬링을 했을 때, Londos drew crowds estimated to be at or more than 100,00 fans.

At the start of the 1920s, fans across the United States knew Londos as a talented wrestler. 그러나, 무거운 돌덩이 따위를 끌어 올리고 내리는 쇠 집게, 조 스테처, 존 페섹, and other top wresters always defeated Londos. Londos began experiencing more success when Londos started wrestling out of St. 루이, Missouri in the early 1920s.

생. Louis organizers hosted infrequent professional wrestling matches as early as the 1870s. 그러나, 생. Louis did not boast a local promoter until John Contos set up his wrestling promotion in 1922. Two years later, Contos left St. Louis to manage the career of Dan Kolov. Contos turned over his promotion to his nephew, Tom Packs.

Packs built the promotion becoming a promoter with national power on the same level as Jack Curley in New York or Paul Bowser in Boston. Londos remained aligned with Packs throughout his career.

12 월 21, 1921, local promoters in tandem with the Chicago promotional office promoted an event at the Odeon Theater. The Odeon Theater, at N. Grand Boulevard and Finney Avenue, 세인트에서. 루이, hosted both live performances and films. The organizers placed mats on the stage for the event.

Less than 400 fans attended the three-match card. Four years later, 17,000 fans crowded St. Louis University Field to watch Joe Stecher wrestle Stanislaus Zbyszko for the world championship.

Promoters billed Londos as “the Greek wrestling champion”, an honorific not actual title. Londos wrestled Joe Mantell in a worked match. Londos won the first fall in forty-four minutes with a head chancery and clutch. Londos escaped three toeholds right before applying the winning combination for the first fall.

Londos made Mantell look good enough in the first fall. Londos only wrestled fourteen more minutes to take the second fall in 14 minutes with a flying mare. Londos won his first main event in St. Louis in two straight falls.

By mid-1922, John Contos took over the fledgling promotion. Contos continued to feature Londos as did his nephew Tom Packs. Londos was so popular that a group of St. Louis’ Greek businesspeople offered to help him start his own gym business.

Contos moved the promotion out of the Odeon Theater and into the Coliseum. Contos also used a ring instead of mats. The Odeon Theater continued to host entertainment events until the early morning hours of Friday, 8월 2, 1935. A fire swept through the theater burning it to the ground.

From humble beginnings rose two of the most successful wrestling promotions in the United States. Londos helped lay the foundation for these promotions.

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Sources: 세인트. Louis Star and Times (생. 루이, MO) 12월 22, 1921, 피. 21

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