1930-1939
1931Wrestling's first sleeper hold is applied by Jim Londos to Ray Steele in the main event of a card at New York's Yankee Stadium in front of 21,000 fans.
1933
Salvador Lutteroth creates La Empressa Mexican de Lucha Libre, the first of its kind in Mexico. His empresa's first show is at the Arena Modelo, with a cartelera that included wrestlers Bobby Sampson from the United States and Yaqui Joe a Native American wrestler. The success of these early shows allowed for the expansion of wrestling throughout Mexico. This same year, Irish wrestler Cyclone McKey (part of Lutteroth's troupe of wrestlers, requests that Don Antonio H. Martinez, make a mask for him (and with this request the modern masked wrestler in Mexico is born). Martinez's design is so remarkable that it is still used to today.
1937
Mud wrestling is invented in Seattle, Washington, by accident, after too much water is used on the dirt of a "Hindu match" between Prince Bhu Pinder and former champion Gus Sonnenberg. The mistake soon make a regular promotion, with Women's mud wrestling coming into fruition by 1938.
Sources:
http://www.100porcienmexico.es/Lucha_%20libre.pdf
http://leyendasdelring.galeon.com/aficiones1041468.html
http://www.bongo.net/papers/lucha.htm
http://www.mtzwear.com/eng/historia.php
http://ba-k.com/showthread.php?t=686892
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