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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.
During June 1927, the Illinois state legislature rocked the professional boxing and professional wrestling worlds when a subcommittee started investigating the state athletic commission. The legislature believed that promoters were putting on “fake” contests in both sports. Before the committee concluded its work, it suspended the boxing and wrestling licenses of 130 athletes. These revelations further disillusioned wrestling fans aggravated
Bernarr MacFadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, on August 16, 1868, founded a publishing company in 1899 that still operates today. MacFadden, an early proponent of physical culture, authored books and published magazine about physical culture, early bodybuilding training. MacFadden moved into pulp magazines like True Detective in the 1920s. Before MacFadden made his fortune as a publisher
Jim Londos developed a national reputation as one of the top professional wrestlers during the 1910s. Men, Londos’ career took a major step forward when Londos started wrestling for the fledgling St. Louis promotion in the early 1920s. Londos headlined the first card in late 1921. Londos wrestled on the second card on Thursday, Januar 26, 1922, as well. Current
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. Efter
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På mindedagen, Maj 30, 1925, Joe Stecher besejrede Stanislaus Zbyszko i en arbejdede kamp for at generobre verdensmesterskabet i sværvægtsbrydning, som Stecher havde tabt i december 1920. Stecher var en del af en sammensværgelse, der betalte Stanislaus Zbyszko for at krydse Wayne "Big" Munn i april 1925. Zbyszko besejrede Munn legitimt i et af professionel wrestlings mest berømte dobbeltkryds. As
På torsdag, Juli 9, 1925, Ed "Strangler" Lewis lavede et af de tidlige forsvar af sin version af World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis kæmpede Howard Cantonwine foran 5,000 fans på McNulty Park. Efter Stanislaus Zbyszko dobbeltkrydsede Sandows og Lewis' salgsfremmende gruppe ved at besejre Wayne "Big” Munn lovligt, både Joe Stecher og Ed "Strangler" Lewis
På torsdag, Marts 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
På fredag, Marts 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
Jim Londos udviklede sig til professionel wrestlings største box office-stjerne i løbet af 1930'erne. Londos kæmpede hovedbegivenheder mod Ed "Strangler" Lewis og Jim Browning på baseballstadioner. Disse kampe trak tilskuere på mere end 30,000 fans for første gang siden den anden Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt i 1911. Da Londos kæmpede i Grækenland, Londos tiltrak publikum, der anslås at være kl