Capitol WrestlingRoderick James “Jess” McMahon was a boxing promoter whose achievements included co-promoting a bout in 1915 between Jess Willard and Jack Johnson. In 1926, while working with Tex Rickard (who actually despised wrestling to such a degree he prevented wrestling events from being held at Madison Square Garden between 1939 and 1948), he started promoting boxing in Madison Square Garden in New York.
In pionship following an apocryphal tournament in Rio de martino a month later on May 17, 1963, after suffering a heart attack shortly before the match
Around the same time, professional wrestler Joseph Raymond “Toots” Mondt created a new style of professional wrestling that he called Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling to make the sport more appealing to spectators. (さらに…)