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Si John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ay nagsimulang makipagbuno nang propesyonal 1915, ngunit mas nababagay si Pesek sa 1885 propesyonal na singsing sa pakikipagbuno. Sa pamamagitan ng 1915, ginawa ng mga wrestler ang kanilang mga laban.

Ang bihasang lightweight wrestler na si Clarence Ecklund ay nagsanay ng Pesek sa catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Si Pesek ay naging isang bihasang hooker o submission wrestler. Hindi kailanman nagustuhan ni Pesek ang pagtatrabaho at pakikipagbuno sa mga paligsahan sa kanyang maagang karera.

Sa huli, Pesek did work with his opponents but still preferred to wrestle legitimate contests. Sa 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. Sa 1970s, 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 sa isang Worked World: John Pesek at ang 1920s Promotional Wars. Read the story of one of the last legitimate professional wrestlers in the United States.

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