Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
Posts about catch-as-catch-can or catch wrestling matches, the dominant style of wrestling in the United States after 1890.
Ceturtdien, 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
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. Pēc
Piektdien, 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
Augustā 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions released Killer Dill (1947), a crime film that professional wrestler Mike Mazurki plays “Little Joe”, a henchman playing both sides of a gang feud. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny “Killer” Dill, a lingerie designer and salesperson, who people mistake for a gangster. After accidentally involving himself in a gang war, viņa
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
Profesionāli cīkstoņi mirst ringā reti, bet reizēm notiek. Uz 1936, 5,000 cīkstēšanās fani Vašingtonā, D.C. netīšām izsauca mirušu vīrieti Mike Romano vs. “Īru” Džeka Donovana spēle ceturtdien Grifitas stadionā, Jūnijs 25, 1936. 40 gadus vecais Romano nospēlēja Donovanu. 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. Līdz 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. Beidzot, Pesek did
During March 1910, Amerikas Savienoto Valstu ģenerālprokurors Padomes Bluffā, Aiova apsūdzēja Džonu C. Mabrajs (viņa īstā vārda versija, Mabry) un ducis apsūdzēto par pasta izmantošanu, lai profesionālajā boksā veiktu krāpšanos ar azartspēlēm, profesionālā cīkstēšanās, un profesionālas zirgu skriešanās sacīkstes. Mabry, mājlopu tirgotājs, kas dzīvo Kanzassitijā, Missouri, nodarbināja insaiderus boksā, cīkstēšanās, and horse
In the early morning hours of August 5, 1933, four safe burglars broke a window at the Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The burglars knocked a dial off the safe and removed $1,550.00 in federal stamps. Uz 2024 dollars, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
Savas karjeras sākumā, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 and 1905. Laikā 1904 match, Beell won the only fall and match. Schoenlein wanted to avenge this defeat. In May 1905, Schoenlein’s manager secured a rematch in Schoenlein’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Schoenlein stood five feet, ten inches tall and weighed 210 mārciņas. Beell usually faced a