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In the early 1920s, Billy Sandow overbeviste Georgia-promotoren Tom Law om at flytte til Wichita, Kansas og udvikle området til fremtidige wrestlingshows. Det amerikanske Midtvesten ville være en betydelig indtægtsgenerator for Gold Dust Trio, som Sandow førte med verdensmester Ed “Strangler” Lewis og salgsfremmende geni Joseph “Toots” Mondt, i 1920'erne. Lov ville producere to

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Verona, Missouri er en lille by i det sydvestlige Missouri. Overskrider aldrig 900 beboere i dens historie, kun 438 eller deromkring folk kaldte Verona hjem i 1926. Alligevel, et professionelt brydekort blev afholdt i byen i mandags, Marts 22, 1926. Uden den udbredte brug af biler eller veje bygget til at håndtere dem, rejse ville være meget vanskelig i 1926.

På fredag, Februar 17, 1922, Verdensmester i sværvægtsbrydning Stanislaus Zbyszko kæmpede en handicapkamp mod Francois Lemarque og den kommende stjerne Jim Londos. Londos was still a few years away from becoming the biggest box office draw in professional wrestling but he was the most popular wrestler in St. Louis. While Londos only stood about 5’06” or 5’07”, he possessed

On Sunday, December 17, 1906, Kansas City, Missouri once more proved itself to be a hotbed for professional wrestling as 8,000 fans crammed Convention Hall to watch the rematch between Frank Gotch and Fred Beell. Beell won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Gotch three weeks earlier in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gotch claimed the loss to be a fluke, while

Juni 11, 1976, Joseph “Toots” Mondt died enroute to Christian Northeast Hospital in North St. Louis County. Mondt had moved to St. Louis i 1969 to help take care of his wife Alda’s mother. After her mother died in 1971, the Mondts decided to stay in St. Louis, where Alda had been born and raised. Mondt was a legendary

Wayne “Big” Munn’s a meteoric rise in professional wrestling. Debuting in 1924, Munn “won” the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Ed “Strangler” Lewis in early 1925. His fall was just as quick. Ved 1926, Munn was retired. A college football lineman from Nebraska, Munn was recruited into professional wrestling by Billy Sandow, defacto leader of the Gold Dust Trio. Den

Fred Beell was a strong, talented professional wrestler at the turn of the 20th Century. Beell gave all the best wrestlers of the day tough contests but his lack of size often hampered his ability with world class wrestlers. Although powerfully built, Beell was generously listed at 5’06”. At his heaviest, Beell never exceeded 170 pounds. While possessing a bodybuilder’s