Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Sou Avril 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” alimèt. 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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Nan mwa janvye 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. Plan Rachmann pou etabli Aberg te ale jan li te planifye apre tounwa a te kòmanse

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Burns Denies Association with Stecher

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In early 1916, Martin “Kiltivatè” 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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Sou Desanm 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. Doktè. Niemann intends to exact revenge on the men who

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Metropolis (1927)

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Nan mwa janvye 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 (Endb), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 zetwal. 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 frape Rickard nan lit

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Nan fen ane 1910 yo, pwomotè lit pwofesyonèl te rezerve luteur nan alimèt lit ki te travay oswa ki te òganize davans.. Occasionally, anjeneral kòm yon rezilta nan yon kwa doub, fanatik yo ta wè yon konkou aktyèl oswa “shoot” match ant luteur yo. Youn nan match sa yo te fèt an reta 1921 ak leve soti nan yon dispute ant Tex Rickard, prensipalman yon pwomotè boksè, ak Jack

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