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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 Déardaoin, Márta 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 Dé hAoine, Márta 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
Ar Lúnasa 2, 1947, Max M. D'eisigh King Productions Killer Dill (1947), scannán coireachta a imríonn an wrestler gairmiúil Mike Mazurki “Little Joe”, fear cearc ag imirt ar an dá thaobh d'fheachtas gang. Is é Stuart Erwin an ról atá ag Johnny “Killer” Dill, dearthóir lingerie agus díoltóir, a dhéanann daoine dearmad ar gangster. Tar éis dó é féin a bheith páirteach i gcogadh gang de thaisme, a
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
Is annamh a bhíonn wrestlers gairmiúla ag fáil bháis sa fháinne ach tarlaíonn sé uaireanta. In 1936, 5,000 lucht leanúna wrestling i Washington, D.C. gan chuimhneamh boed fear marbh ag deireadh an Mike Romano vs. Cluiche “Éireannach” Jack Donovan i Staid Uí Ghríofa Déardaoin, Meitheamh 25, 1936. Bhí an Romano 40 bliain d'aois ag cur Donovan os a chionn i gcluiche oibrithe. Thug nuachtáin tuairisc mhíchruinn ar Romano mar
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. De réir 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. Faoi dheireadh, Pesek did
During March 1910, Ard-Aighne na Stát Aontaithe i Bluffs na Comhairle, Ghearr Iowa John C. Mhabrai (leagan dá ainm féin, Mabraigh) agus dosaen cosantóirí ag baint úsáide as an bpost chun calaois chearrbhachais a dhéanamh sa dornálaíocht ghairmiúil, wrestling proifisiúnta, agus rásaíocht capall gairmiúil. Mabraigh, déileálaí beostoic a chónaíonn i Kansas City, Missouri, fostaithe istigh sa dornálaíocht, wrestling, agus capall
Go luath ar maidin de Lúnasa 5, 1933, bhris ceithre bhuirgléir shábháilte fuinneog ag an Marshfield Brewing Company i Marshfield, Wisconsin. Bhuail na buirgléirí a dhiailiú amach as an sábháilte agus baineadh as $1,550.00 i stampaí feidearálacha. In 2024 dollars, ghoid na buirgléir os a chionn $37,000.00. D'éirigh leis na burgairí céanna ceann eile a ghlacadh $1,000 i stampaí cónaidhme ón Wausau Brewing Company
Go luath ina ghairm bheatha, Throid Fred Beell Gus “Americus” Schoenlein i 1904 agus 1905. Le linn na 1904 match, Bhuaigh Beell an t-aon titim agus cluiche. Theastaigh ó Schoenlein an ruaig seo a dhíoghail. In May 1905, Fuair bainisteoir Schoenlein ath-mheaitseáil i mbaile dúchais Schoenlein, Baltimore, Maryland. Sheas Schoenlein cúig throigh, deich n-orlach ar airde agus meáite 210 punt. Beell aghaidh de ghnáth a