Madison Square Garden (1925) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Professional wrestling==== [[Capitol Wrestling Corporation]]—along with its successor, the [[World Wide Wrestling Federation]]—promoted professional wrestling at the Garden during its last two decades. [[Toots Mondt]] and [[Jess McMahon]] owned CWC, which initially promoted tag team wrestling. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Mondt and McMahon were successful at promoting ethnic heroes of [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] or [[Italian Americans|Italian descent]]. Two historic wrestling events took place at MSG III. On May 17, 1963, [[Bruno Sammartino]] defeated [["Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers]], via submission, in 48 seconds, to become the second ever [[WWWF World Heavyweight Champion]]. On November 19, 1957, the [[Dr. Jerry Graham]] & [[Dick the Bruiser]] vs. [[Edouard Carpentier]] & [[Argentina Rocca]] main event led to a race riot involving Italian and Puerto Rican fans of Carpentier and Rocca. After the riot, New York City nearly banned [[professional wrestling]] and children under the age of 14 were prohibited from attending.<ref name=Meltzer>{{cite web |url=http://www.f4wonline.com/component/content/article/36241-feb-3-1997-wrestling-observer-newsletter-jerry-graham-passes-away-future-of-nhb-in-new-york-in-serious-jeopardy-dave-brown-quits-nwo-gimmick-exposed-more |title=Wrestling Observer Newsletter, February 3, 1997 |publisher=Wrestling Observer Newsletter |access-date=April 10, 2014}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page