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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.
El lunes, Junio 25, 1934, current World Champion Jim Browning defended his world title against Jim Londos. Browning dropped the title to Londos in a match to end the promotional war which led to the double-crosses of the early 1930s. 20,000 fans crowded into Madison Square Garden to see the match leading to a $40,000 gate. Jack Curley enjoyed a
En enero 30, 1930, Gus Sonnenberg defended his AWA World Title, based in the Boston promotion of Paul Bowser, in Boston Arena against former world champion Joe Stecher. Two minutes of film survived from the hour-long match. Gus Sonnenberg traded on his celebrity as a professional football player to become a wrestling star. Sonnenberg helped the Providence Steam Roller win
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yrvcvp86fj5ja5zg/Episode_72_agae9.mp3Podcast: Jugar en una nueva ventana | DownloadUpdate I am giving away Wayfarer in a Foreign Land: Sorakichi Matsuda Wrestles in America between Monday, Diciembre 30, 2024 to Friday, Enero 3, 2025. Dan and I will release the next episode on Monday, Enero 13, 2025. Main Content I discuss the October 1916 mixed styles match between Taro Miyake and Ad Santel.
On Memorial Day, Mayo 30, 1925, Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko in a worked match to reclaim the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that Stecher had lost in December 1920. Stecher was part of a conspiracy that paid Stanislaus Zbyszko to double-cross Wayne “Big” Munn in April 1925. Zbyszko defeated Munn legitimately in one of professional wrestling’s most famous double-crosses. As
El jueves, Julio 9, 1925, Ed “Strangler” Lewis made one of the early defenses of his version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis wrestled Howard Cantonwine in front of 5,000 fans at McNulty Park. After Stanislaus Zbyszko double-crossed Sandow’s and Lewis’ promotional group by defeating Wayne “Big” Munn legitimately, both Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis
El jueves, Marzo 31, 1881, 200 Los fanáticos se filtraron en el Turnverein Hall de Nueva York para ver a Clarence Whistler luchar contra Henry Moses Dufur en un partido de lucha libre de triples de tres caídas con la captura de la captura con ambos luchadores con chaquetas. Los promotores usaron las reglas y chaquetas para incluso las posibilidades de que cada luchador gane. Clarence Whistler especializado en lucha grecorromana. Whistler tomó campeón mundial de lucha libre de peso pesado
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
El viernes, Marzo 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, un
En agosto 2, 1947, Máximo M. King Productions lanzó Killer Dill (1947), una película policial en la que el luchador profesional Mike Mazurki interpreta a "Little Joe", un secuaz que juega en ambos lados de una disputa entre pandillas. Stuart Erwin interpreta a Johnny "Killer" Dill, diseñadora y vendedora de lencería, a quien la gente confunde con un gángster. Después de involucrarse accidentalmente en una guerra de pandillas, his
Jim Londos se convirtió en la mayor estrella de taquilla de la lucha libre profesional durante la década de 1930.. Londos luchó en eventos principales contra Ed “Strangler” Lewis y Jim Browning en estadios de béisbol.. Estos partidos atrajeron a multitudes de más de 30,000 fans por primera vez desde el segundo Gotch vs.. Hackenschmidt en 1911. Cuando Londos luchó en Grecia, Londres atrajo a multitudes estimadas en