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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.
Siku ya Alhamisi, Machi 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
Siku ya Ijumaa, Machi 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
Juu ya Agosti 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions ilitoa Killer Dill (1947), filamu ya uhalifu ambayo mwanamieleka kitaaluma Mike Mazurki anacheza "Little Joe", mshikaji anayecheza pande zote mbili za ugomvi wa genge. Stuart Erwin anaigiza kama Johnny "Killer" Dill, mbunifu wa nguo za ndani na muuzaji, ambao watu wanamkosea kuwa jambazi. Baada ya kujihusisha kwa bahati mbaya katika vita vya magenge, yake
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. In 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, Juni 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. By 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. Hatimaye, Pesek did
During March 1910, Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Marekani katika Baraza la Bluffs, Iowa ilimshtaki John C. Mabray (toleo la jina lake halisi, Mabry) na washtakiwa kadhaa kwa kutumia barua kufanya udanganyifu wa kamari katika ndondi za kitaaluma, mieleka ya kitaaluma, na mbio za kitaalam za farasi. Mabry, mfanyabiashara wa mifugo anayeishi Kansas City, Missouri, walioajiriwa ndani katika ndondi, mieleka, na farasi
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. In 2024 dollars, the burglars stole over $37,000.00. The same burglars successfully took another $1,000 katika mihuri ya shirikisho kutoka kwa Kampuni ya Wausau Brewing
Mapema katika kazi yake, Fred Beell wrestled Gus “Americus” Schoenlein in 1904 na 1905. During the 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 paundi. Beell usually faced a