Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Huhtikuun 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” tulitikut. 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 Olson Beats Russian

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Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Tammikuu 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. While British

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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. Rachmannin suunnitelma Abergin perustamiseksi eteni suunnitelmien mukaan turnauksen alkamisen jälkeen

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Burns Denies Association with Stecher

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Alkuvuodesta 1916, Räystäspääsky “Viljelijä” Burns, 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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Joulukuun 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. Niemann intends to exact revenge on the men who

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Metropolis (1927)

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Tammikuu 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 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. Teemana, jonka kanssa yhteiskunta on paininut vuoden alusta lähtien

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Tom Allen ampuu suojelijan

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Tom Allen syntyi Birminghamissa, Englannissa huhtikuussa 23, 1840 mutta hänestä tuli kuuluisa raskaansarjan paljas rystysten voittaja Amerikassa. Asuminen St. Louis around 1867, Allen voitti Yhdysvaltain raskaansarjan mestaruuden vuonna 1873 ja piti titteliä kunnes 1876. Hän palasi Englantiin vuodeksi ennen kuin palasi St. Louis lopullisesti sisään 1878. Back

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Pesek Palm iskee Rickardia Wrestlingistä

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1910-luvun loppuun mennessä, ammattipainin edistäjät varastivat painijia työstetyissä tai ennalta sovituissa painiotteluissa. Occasionally, yleensä kaksoisristin seurauksena, fanit näkivät todellisen kilpailun tai “shoot” ottelu painijoiden välillä. Yksi näistä otteluista tapahtui myöhään 1921 ja syntyi Tex Rickardin välisestä kiistasta, ensisijaisesti nyrkkeilypromoottori, ja Jack

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