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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. IB. 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. Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 22, 1888,
Lub caij nplooj zeeg 1921, Jack Curley thiab Tex Rickard nrog ib promotional feud uas pib nyob rau hauv kev boxing tab sis kis mus rau kev wrestling. Curley thiab Rickard tswm lawv feud hauv ib contest tseeb contest rau lub kaum ib hlis 1921. Curley xaiv John "The Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek ua rau nws tiv thaiv Rickard wrestler Marin Plestina. Ua ntej Curley thiab Rickard yuav npaj
If he had been bigger, Fred Beell would have been a dominant heavyweight in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Xwb, 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. Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
Thaum lub kaum ib hlis 1921, John "Tus Nebraska Tigerman" Pesek wrestled ib contest tseeb contest nrog Marin Plestina khom ib promotional tsov rog ntawm Jack Curley thiab boxing promoter Tex Rickard. Pesek fouled ib raug mob Plestina, leej twg yog pab cug nws tus kheej. Tom qab ntais ntawv, Rickard rov qab mus boxing thaum lub xeev New York ncaws Commission banned Pesek ntawm wrestling nyob New York.
Nyob rau hauv 1919, John “Tus Nebraska Tsovman” Pesek nrhiav tau nws tus kheej nyob rau hauv tib txoj hauj lwm tib yam li Marin Plestina. Tus dominant wrestling ntseeg yuav tsis muab Pesek ib match nrog ib lub “Plaub tug loj plaub” – Earl Caddock, Joe Stecher, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, thiab Wladek Zbyszko. Tsis tau ruaj ntseg ib match nrog Stecher, Pesek wrestled Jim Londos hauv Omaha, Nebraska rau lub kaum hli ntuj 10,
Nyob thanksgiving nyob America, Hnub plaub, Kaum ib hlis 26, 1908, Yussouff Mahmout wrestled qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins ntawm Madison Square vaj nyob New York City. Mahmout nyuam qhuav rau lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas wrestle Frank Gotch rau lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Yog Mahmout tua yeej Jenkins, Mahmout yuav pom los ua ib bona fide challenger rau Gotch. Jenkins yog tus
Jack Claybourne, one of the earliest African-American, professional wrestlers, was born Elmer Claybourn at Mexico, Missouri, nyob tim 8, 1910. Nyob rau hauv 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 cov neeg. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Chiv, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Wrestling historians xav txog xws li Ed "Strangler" Lewis los yog Frank Gotch yuav tus loj tshaj American kev wrestler. Thaum peb paub heev txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Frank Gotch, Peb paub ntau tsawg txog cov hauj lwm thaum ntxov ntawm Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Ntau qhov chaw thov Lewis kawm catch-as-catch-can wrestling hauv lub carnivals thaum nws tsuas plaub xyoos. Lewis
Besides yog tus najnpawb venue rau kev boxers thiab wrestlers los qhia thaum nyob st. Louis, cov me nyuam. Louis lag luam txiv neej Gymnasium hosted me boxing thiab wrestling txheej xwm. Nyob rau hauv 1898, Qub American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Martin "Farmer" Burns wrestled Oscar Wasem pem lub taub hau ib pawg neeg me me ntawm cov txiv neej ua hauj lwm gymnasium. Kub yus yog transitioning rau hauv txoj kev kawm wrestlers full-time thiab
Thaum ntxov 1930s thaum ntxov, Cov haib tshaj promoters hauv kev wrestling, Jack Curley, Joseph "Toots" Mondt, Paul Bowser, Thiab Tom Packs tseg ob-crosses rau sib hurting tag nrho yog nqus hwj huam ntawm lawv wrestlers. Thaum tsov rog promotional, Jack Pfefer aligned nws tus kheej nrog Jack Curley thiab "Toots" Mondt, Leej twg khiav tawm hauv New York City. Nyob lig 1933, Curley thiab