Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

باب فٹزسیمنز

مارچ 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, نیواڈا. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in

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لیوس اور سٹیچر ایک ڈرا پر کام کرتے ہیں۔

لیوس اور سٹیچر

In his book Hooker, Lou Thesz wrote about the rivalry between two of his favorite wrestlers, Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler کے” لیوس. Stecher and Lewis would emerge as the two best legitimate professional wrestler of the 1910s. Either man could beat every other wrestler at the time in a legitimate contest or “shoot”. The men wrestled three long, boring contests

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Dusek Double-Crosses Mondt

sol-slagel

Prior to the creation of the territorial system in 1948, pro wrestling promoters fought with each other to control the world championship. Promoting the world champion led to bigger gates, so most promoters wanted to control the championship. In the 1930s, promoters would enter into agreements with each other but they were often fleeting. When one promoter got offended, thought

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اسٹیل نے مخلوط مقابلہ میں لیونسکی کا سامنا کیا۔

ray-steele

نومبر 19, 1935, professional wrestler Ray Steele met professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky in a mixed wresting versus boxing bout. The Missouri State Athletic Commission created special rules for the match. The commissioners ruled the bout would consist of three-minute rounds like a boxing match. The commissioners allowed Levinsky to punch even if he was on the mat. Steele could

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“کسان” برنس پوری رات میں ڈالتا ہے۔

فارمر-برنز-فرینک-گوچ

میں 1899, مارٹن “کسان” Burns was transitioning into the role of part-time wrestler and full-time trainer. One of his most famous pupils would be Frank Gotch, who Burns defeated a week after this match. Burns was 38 years-old and had lost his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship two years earlier. Burns blended both roles on a very busy December night in

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پیٹ او شاکر نے ڈبل کراس سے انکار کر دیا۔

جوزف ٹوٹس مونٹ

William Hayes Shaw, who wrestled as Pat O’Shocker through most of his wrestling career, found himself in the spotlight in 1933. O’Shocker wasn’t looking for this sort of fame though. Newspapers were carrying a story about how wrestling promoters tried to use O’Shocker in a planned double-cross. یوسف “Toots” Mondt booked wrestlers out of New York and was aligned with

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ٹینیسی میں جم براؤننگ مہمات

جم براؤننگ

میں 1933, about 10 years into his wrestling career, Jim Browning would win the world title. Starting his career in Kansas and his home state of Missouri, Browning would have to leave these familiar grounds, if he intended to reach the highest pinnacle in professional wrestling. Because World Champions had to tour nationally, and often internationally, the world title was

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More Beating Than Shoot

لیوس اور سٹیچر

I’ve written in the past that Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce by Marcus Griffin is a problematic source. While Griffin has insider knowledge due to his time in the Buffalo promotional office in the 1930s, he wrote the book for the purpose of revenge against the promoters who fired him. The book contains factual information mixed in with interesting

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McLaughlin Wrestles Bauer

جیمز-ہیرام-مکلافلن

James Hiram McLaughlin holds the distinction of being the first American professional wrestler. While people wrestled professionally before McLaughlin, he was the first to earn a professional living from wrestling. McLaughlin began wrestling professionally in 1860 میں 16 years of age but the Civil War interrupted his career for a few years. McLaughlin began wrestling again in 1866. کی طرف سے 1877,

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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

جیک ڈیمپسی کی تربیت

On July 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” اگرچہ جارج کارپینٹیئر

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