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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.
Hôm thứ Hai, Tháng Sáu 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
On January 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
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On Memorial Day, Có thể 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
Hôm thứ Năm, Tháng Bảy 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
Hôm thứ Năm, Diễu hành 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
Vào thứ Sáu, Diễu hành 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, một
Ngày 2, 1947, Tối đa M. King Productions phát hành Killer Dill (1947), một bộ phim tội phạm do đô vật chuyên nghiệp Mike Mazurki thủ vai “Little Joe”, một tay sai đóng vai cả hai phe trong mối thù băng đảng. Stuart Erwin vào vai Johnny “Killer” Dill, một nhà thiết kế đồ lót và nhân viên bán hàng, mọi người nhầm ai là xã hội đen. Sau khi vô tình vướng vào một cuộc chiến băng đảng, his
Jim Londos đã phát triển thành ngôi sao phòng vé lớn nhất của môn đấu vật chuyên nghiệp trong những năm 1930. Londos đấu vật trong các sự kiện chính với Ed “Strangler” Lewis và Jim Browning tại sân vận động bóng chày. Những trận đấu này thu hút đông đảo hơn 30,000 người hâm mộ lần đầu tiên kể từ trận Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt ở 1911. Khi Londos đấu vật ở Hy Lạp, Londos drew crowds estimated to be at