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John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek började brottas professionellt i 1915, men Pesek var mer lämpad för 1885 professionell brottningsring. Genom 1915, brottare arbetade sina matcher.
Den skickliga lättviktsbrottaren Clarence Ecklund tränade Pesek i catch-as-catch-can-brottning. Pesek utvecklades till en skicklig hora eller submission wrestler. Pesek tyckte aldrig om att arbeta och brottades med tävlingar i sin tidiga karriär.
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Så småningom, Pesek did work with his opponents but still preferred to wrestle legitimate contests. I 1921, Jack Curley engaged Pesek to end a promotional war by booking Pesek in a legitimate contest.
Two year later, Pesek wrestled a second legitimate contest but instead of ending a promotional war, Pesek started a promotional war. Later Pesek double-crossed the current world champion after working with the champion in two earlier matches.
After the double-cross, promoters still booked Pesek into three world championship reigns. Despite worries about who would take the title off Pesek, if he did not want to lose it, promoters still put the title on Pesek.
Pesek eventually became a millionaire but not through his professional wrestling career. Pesek bred and raced greyhound racing dogs. På 1970-talet, eighty percent of the greyhound racing dogs in the United States descended from two Pesek’s Australian greyhounds Andy and Just Andrew.
I recently completed Shooter in a Worked World: John Pesek och 1920-talets reklamkrig. Read the story of one of the last legitimate professional wrestlers in the United States.
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