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Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
Ar ddydd Iau, Mawrth 31, 1881, 200 fans filtered into New York’s Turnverein Hall to watch Clarence Whistler wrestle Henry Moses Dufur in a three-out-of-five-falls catch-as-catch-can wrestling match with both wrestlers wearing jackets. The promoters used the rules and jackets to even the chances of each wrestler to win. Clarence Whistler specialized in Greco-Roman wrestling. Whistler took World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
When the great Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, the boxing establishment started searching for a “white hope” to defeat Johnson. In desperation to find someone to defeat Johnson, promoters and sports writers started lobbying former World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries to end his retirement to fight Johnson. Jeffries retired undefeated in 1905. After
Ar ddydd Gwener, Mawrth 11, 1932, wrestlers George Tragos and Rudy Dusek faced boxers, Stanley McRae and Tom Pivac in wrestler versus boxer bouts. It took the fans longer to get to their seats than it took the combatants to complete the bouts. The men fought the pair of bouts in Memphis, Tennessee at the Auditorium. Fans know George Tragos, a
On August 2, 1947, Max M. Rhyddhaodd King Productions Killer Dill (1947), ffilm drosedd y mae'r reslwr proffesiynol Mike Mazurki yn ei chwarae "Little Joe", henchman yn chwarae dwy ochr ffrae gang. Mae Stuart Erwin yn serennu fel Johnny “Killer” Dill, dylunydd dillad isaf a gwerthwr, pwy mae pobl yn camgymryd am gangster. Ar ôl ymwneud yn ddamweiniol mewn rhyfel gangiau, ei
Jim Londos developed into professional wrestling’s biggest box office star during the 1930s. Londos wrestled main events against Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Jim Browning at baseball stadiums. These matches drew crowds of more than 30,000 fans for the first time since the second Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt in 1911. When Londos wrestled in Greece, Londos drew crowds estimated to be at
Mae reslwyr proffesiynol yn marw yn y cylch yn brin ond yn digwydd weithiau. Yn 1936, 5,000 cefnogwyr reslo yn Washington, D.C. beiddio dyn marw yn anfwriadol ar ddiwedd gêm Mike Romano vs. Gêm “Wyddelig” Jack Donovan yn Stadiwm Griffith ddydd Iau, Mehefin 25, 1936. Roedd y Romano 40 oed yn rhoi Donovan drosodd mewn gêm weithiedig. Adroddodd papurau newydd fod Romano yn anghywir
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. Erbyn 1915, wrestlers worked their matches. Skilled lightweight wrestler Clarence Ecklund trained Pesek in catch-as-catch-can wrestling. Pesek developed into a skilled hooker or submission wrestler. Pesek never liked working and wrestled contests in his early career. Yn y pen draw, Pesek did
During March 1910, Twrnai Cyffredinol yr Unol Daleithiau yn Council Bluffs, Cyhuddodd Iowa John C. Mabray (fersiwn o'i enw gwirioneddol, Mabry) a dwsin o ddiffynyddion yn defnyddio'r post i gyflawni twyll gamblo mewn bocsio proffesiynol, reslo proffesiynol, a rasio ceffylau proffesiynol. Mabry, deliwr da byw yn byw yn Kansas City, Missouri, gweithwyr mewnol mewn bocsio, reslo, a march
Yn oriau mân y bore ym mis Awst 5, 1933, torrodd pedwar lladron diogel ffenestr yn y Marshfield Brewing Company yn Marshfield, Wisconsin. Tarodd y lladron ddeial oddi ar y sêff a'i dynnu $1,550.00 mewn stampiau ffederal. Yn 2024 dollars, y lladron yn dwyn drosodd $37,000.00. Llwyddodd yr un lladron i gymryd un arall $1,000 mewn stampiau ffederal gan Gwmni Bragu Wausau
Yn gynnar yn ei yrfa, Bu Fred Beell yn reslo Gus “Americus” Schoenlein i mewn 1904 a 1905. During the 1904 match, Enillodd Beell yr unig gwymp a gêm. Roedd Schoenlein am ddial am y gorchfygiad hwn. In May 1905, Sicrhaodd rheolwr Schoenlein ail-gyfle yn nhref enedigol Schoenlein, Baltimore, Maryland. Safai Schoenlein bum troedfedd, deg modfedd o daldra ac yn pwyso 210 bunnoedd. Fel arfer wynebodd Beell a