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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.
Na začetku svoje kariere, Fred Beell se je boril z Gusom »Americusom« Schoenleinom 1904 in 1905. Med 1904 match, Beell je zmagal v edinem padcu in tekmi. Schoenlein se je želel maščevati za ta poraz. In May 1905, Schoenleinov menedžer si je zagotovil povratno tekmo v Schoenleinovem rojstnem mestu Baltimoru, Maryland. Schoenlein je stal pet metrov, deset centimetrov visok in tehtan 210 funtov. Beell se je običajno soočil z
D. A. McMillan je v zadnjih dveh desetletjih 19. stoletja služil kot kompetenten rokoborec. McMillan se je boril z ameriškim prvakom v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Martinom "Farmerjem" Burnsom v delujoči shemi iger na srečo, ki jo je razkril časopisni novinar. Medtem ko McMillan nikoli ni osvojil ameriškega naslova, McMillan je premagal manjšo konkurenco, preden so ga premagali boljši rokoborci, kot je Burns. Decembra 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. Januarja 13, 1905, Beell wrestled H.P. Hansen in
During November 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.
V 1919, John “Tigerman iz Nebraske” 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, In “Strangler” Lewis, 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, November 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, Missouri, on March 8, 1910. V 1910, Mexico was home to about 5,939 residents. Claybourne started his professional wrestling career in Missouri in 1931. Najprej, Claybourne wrestled in nearby Moberly, Missouri. Moberly had a population of 13,722 residents compared to 8,290 residents in Mexico, Missouri
Rokoborski zgodovinarji menijo, da sta Ed "Strangler" Lewis ali Frank Gotch največja ameriška profesionalna rokoborca. Čeprav vemo kar nekaj o zgodnji karieri Franka Gotcha, veliko manj vemo o zgodnji karieri Eda »Davitelja« Lewisa. Različni viri trdijo, da se je Lewis na karnevalih naučil rokoborbe "ujemi, ko ulovi, ko je bil star komaj štirinajst let".. Lewis
Poleg tega, da je to priljubljeno prizorišče za treninge profesionalnih boksarjev in rokoborcev v St. Louis, St. Louis Business Men’s Gymnasium je gostil manjše boksarske in rokoborske dogodke. V 1898, nekdanji ameriški prvak v rokoborbi v težki kategoriji Martin "Farmer" Burns se je boril z Oscarjem Wasemom pred majhno množico v dvorani Business Men's Gymnasium. Burns je začel trenirati rokoborce s polnim delovnim časom in