Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Pada April 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” perlawanan. 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 Mengalahkan Bahasa Rusia

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Frank J. Quinn, sebuah St. peguam Louis, berkhidmat sebagai pengurus untuk ahli gusti profesional George Baptise, Charley Olson dan Fred Beell. Pada asalnya pengagum George Baptiste, yang merupakan legenda di St. Louis di sekitar Cook dan Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste akan mengambil Quinn sebagai palungannya dan kemudiannya peguam untuk khemah dan syarikat awningnya. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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On January 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. Manakala 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. Rancangan Rachmann untuk menubuhkan Aberg berjalan seperti yang dirancang selepas kejohanan bermula

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Burns Nafi Persatuan dengan Stecher

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In early 1916, Martin “Petani” Burns, yang melatih dan menguruskan Frank Gotch ke Kejohanan Heavyweight Dunia, mula menafikan bahawa dia membangunkan Juara Heavyweight Amerika semasa Joe Stecher. Tuntutan itu kelihatan pelik kerana Burns telah bekerja dengan Stecher selama beberapa tahun. Burns membantu menyediakan Stecher untuk pertarungan kejuaraannya dengan Charlie Cutler 1915. Dalam satu cara, apa yang Terbakar

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House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Pada Disember 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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Tom Allen Menewaskan Mike McCoole untuk Tajuk

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Manakala pejuang hadiah buku jari telanjang Tom Allen dilahirkan di England semasa 1840, dia menghabiskan sebahagian besar kehidupan dewasanya di St Louis selepas berpindah ke Amerika Syarikat di 1867. Selepas kekalahan mengecewakan kepada Jem Mace 1870, di mana dia menarik perhatian penonton dengan persembahan gagah dalam usaha yang kalah, Allen mula berkempen untuk menembak Amerika

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Tom Allen Shoots Penaung

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Tom Allen dilahirkan di Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 tetapi dia menjadi terkenal sebagai pejuang hadiah buku jari telanjang kelas berat di Amerika. Menetap di St. Louis around 1867, Allen memenangi Kejohanan Heavyweight Amerika di 1873 dan memegang gelaran sehingga 1876. Dia kembali ke England selama setahun sebelum kembali ke St. Louis untuk kebaikan 1878. Back

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Pesek Palm Strikes Rickard from Wrestling

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By the end of the 1910s, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, usually as a result of a double cross, fans would see an actual contest or “shoot” match between the wrestlers. One of these matches occurred in late 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, primarily a boxing promoter, and Jack

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