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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.
D. A. McMillan served as a competent journeyman wrestler during the last two decades of the 19th Century. McMillan wrestled American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin “Farmer” Burns in a worked gambling scheme that a newspaper reporter exposed. While McMillan never won the American title, McMillan beat lesser competition before the better wrestlers like Burns defeated him. От декември 22, 1888,
In the fall of 1921, Jack Curley and Tex Rickard engaged in a promotional feud that started in professional boxing but spread to professional wrestling. Curley and Rickard settled their feud in a legitimate contest in November 1921. Curley selected John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek to act for him against Rickard’s wrestler Marin Plestina. Before Curley and Rickard could arrange
If he had been bigger, Fred Beell would have been a dominant heavyweight in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Instead, larger opponents often defeated Beell only because the opponent outweighed Beell by thirty to fifty pounds. On the rare occasions that Beell wrestled a middleweight, Beell crushed his opponent. На January 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
През месец ноември 1921, John “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek wrestled a legitimate contest with Marin Plestina to settle a promotional war between Jack Curley and boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled an injured Plestina, who was helpless to defend himself. After the match, Rickard returned to boxing while the New York State Athletic Commission banned Pesek from wrestling in New York.
В 1919, Клозет “The Nebraska Tigerman” Pesek found himself in the same position as Marin Plestina. The dominant wrestling trust would not give Pesek a match with one of the “Big Four” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1799" bbox_w = "16" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = " “<Педя bbox_x = "949" bbox_y = "1799" bbox_w = "52" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = "” Фундаментален болт, and Wladek Zbyszko. Unable to secure a match with Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos in Omaha, Nebraska on October 10,
On Thanksgiving in America, Thursday, Ноември 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Mahmout recently to the United States to wrestle Frank Gotch for the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. If Mahmout defeated Jenkins, Mahmout would prove to be a bona fide challenger to Gotch. Jenkins was the
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Мисури, on March 8, 1910. В 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Първоначално, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Мисури. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Мисури
Историците на кеча смятат или Ед „Удушвача“ Луис, или Франк Гоч за най-великия американски професионален кечист. Въпреки че знаем доста за ранната кариера на Франк Гоч, знаем много по-малко за ранната кариера на Ed „Strangler“ Lewis. Различни източници твърдят, че Луис се е научил да се бори по време на карнавалите, когато е бил само на четиринадесет години. Фундаментален болт
Освен че е предпочитано място за тренировки на професионални боксьори и борци, когато в St. Louis, Св. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium беше домакин на по-малки събития по бокс и борба. В 1898, бившият американски шампион по борба в тежка категория Мартин „Фермерът“ Бърнс се бори с Оскар Васем пред малка тълпа в гимназията за мъже.. Бърнс преминаваше към трениращи борци на пълен работен ден и
През началото на 30-те години, най-мощните промоутъри в професионалната борба, Джак Кърли, Джоузеф „Тутс“ Монд, Пол Баузър, и Том Пакс изпълниха двойни кръстове един на друг, наранявайки цялостната сила на теглене на своите борци. По време на промоционалната война, Jack Pfefer се присъедини към Jack Curley и "Toots" Mondt, който избяга от Ню Йорк. В края на 1933, Кърли и