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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.
On Thursday, Ožujak 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. Nakon
U petak, Ožujak 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
Kolovoza 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions izdao je Killer Dill (1947), kriminalistički film koji profesionalni hrvač Mike Mazurki glumi “Little Joe”, privrženik koji igra obje strane sukoba bandi. Stuart Erwin glumi Johnnyja "Ubojicu" Dill-a, dizajner donjeg rublja i prodavač, koga ljudi pogrešno smatraju gangsterom. Nakon što se slučajno upleo u rat bandi, njegov
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
Professional wrestlers dying in the ring is rare but occasionally happens. U 1936, 5,000 wrestling fans in Washington, D.C. inadvertently booed a dead man at the end of the Mike Romano vs. “Irish” Jack Donovan match at Griffith Stadium on Thursday, Lipanj 25, 1936. The 40-year-old Romano was putting Donovan over in a worked match. Newspapers inaccurately reported Romano as
John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek started wrestling professionally in 1915, but Pesek was more suited to the 1885 professional wrestling ring. Po 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. Konačno, Pesek did
During March 1910, državni tužitelj Sjedinjenih Država u Council Bluffsu, Iowa je optužila Johna C. Mabray (verzija njegovog stvarnog imena, Mabry) i desetak optuženika za korištenje pošte za počinjenje kockarske prijevare u profesionalnom boksu, profesionalno hrvanje, i profesionalne konjske utrke. Mabry, trgovac stokom koji živi u Kansas Cityju, Missouri, zaposleni insajderi u boksu, hrvanje, i konja
U ranim jutarnjim satima kolovoza 5, 1933, četiri sigurnosna provalnika razbila su prozor na Marshfield Brewing Company u Marshfieldu, Wisconsin. Provalnici su razbili brojčanik sa sefa i uklonili ga $1,550.00 u saveznim markama. U 2024 dollars, provalnici su se ukrali $37,000.00. Isti provalnici uspješno su oteli još jednu $1,000 u saveznim markicama tvrtke Wausau Brewing Company
Na početku svoje karijere, Fred Beell borio se s Gusom "Americusom" Schoenleinom 1904 i 1905. Tijekom 1904 match, Beell je dobio jedini pad i meč. Schoenlein se želio osvetiti za ovaj poraz. In May 1905, Schoenleinov menadžer osigurao je revanš u Schoenleinovom rodnom gradu Baltimoreu, Maryland. Schoenlein je stajao pet stopa, visok deset inča i težak 210 funti. Beell se obično suočavao s a