Both professional wrestling and mixed martial arts can trace their lineages through the circuses and carnivals that took place on piers and in big tops throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. It ...

NEWARK — In the early 1900s, Columbus native Conn Baker was thrilling circus audiences at home and abroad with his death-defying "loop-the-loop" bicycle act. As one poster from the time put it, Baker ...