Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Apirilaren 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” matches. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling

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Charley Olsonek errusiarra irabazi du

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Frank J. Quinn, bertako St. Luis abokatua, George Baptise borrokalari profesionalen zuzendari gisa aritu zen, Charley Olson eta Fred Beell. Jatorriz George Baptisteren mireslea, nor kondaira bat izan zen St. Louis auzoa Cook eta Vandeventer etorbideen inguruan. Baptistek Quinn hartuko zuen bere kudeatzaile gisa eta geroago bere karpa eta toldoen enpresaren abokatu gisa. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Urtarrilaren On 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Britainiarra berriz

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Masked Marvel To The Rescue

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Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Rachmann’s plan for establishing Aberg was going as planned after the tournament kicked off

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Burns Denies Association with Stecher

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Hasieran 1916, Martin “Baserritarrak” Erredurak, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns

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House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Abenduaren on 1, 1944, Universal Pictures released the latest horror film in the Frankenstein series, House of Frankenstein, with an all-star cast. Boris Karloff, who originally played Frankenstein’s monster, returns to the series as the mad scientist Dr. Niemann. An earthquake releases him and his hunchbacked assistant Daniel from prison. Dr. Niemannek mendekua egiteko asmoa du gizonen aurka

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Tom Allenek Mike McCoole irabazi dio tituluagatik

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Tom Allen saridun saridun bare knuckle Ingalaterran jaio zen bitartean 1840, Helduen bizitzaren zatirik handiena St Louisen eman zuen Estatu Batuetara lekualdatu ondoren 1867. Jem Mace-ren aurka galdu eta galdu ondoren 1870, non ikusleak txunditu zituen emanaldi galanta batekin, ahalegin galtzaile batean, Allen amerikarren aurkako tiro baten aldeko kanpaina egiten hasi zen

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Metropolis (1927)

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Urtarrilaren On 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 daudelarik 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the

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Pesek Palm-ek Borroka taldeko Rickard jotzen du

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1910eko hamarkadaren amaieran, Borroka profesionalen sustatzaileek borrokalariak erreserbatu zituzten landutako edo aurrez antolatutako borroka partidetan. Batzuetan, normalean gurutze bikoitz baten ondorioz, zaleek benetako lehiaketa bat ikusiko lukete edo “shoot” borrokalarien arteko partida. Partidu horietako bat berandu gertatu zen 1921 eta Tex Rickard-en arteko liskar batetik sortu zen, batez ere boxeo sustatzailea, eta Jack

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