Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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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” fyrstikker. 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 slår russisk

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Frank J. Quinn, en lokal St. Louis advokat, fungerte som manager for profesjonelle brytere George Baptise, Charley Olson og Fred Beell. Opprinnelig en beundrer av George Baptiste, som var en legende i St. Louis-området rundt Cook og Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste ville ansette Quinn som sin krybbe og senere advokat for telt- og forteltfirmaet hans. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Januar 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. Rachmanns plan for å etablere Aberg gikk som planlagt etter at turneringen startet

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Burns Denies Association med Stecher

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In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, som trente og ledet Frank Gotch til World Heavyweight Championship, begynte å benekte at han utviklet den nåværende amerikanske tungvektsmesteren Joe Stecher. Påstanden virket rar fordi Burns hadde jobbet med Stecher i flere år. Burns hjalp til med å forberede Stecher til mesterskapskampen hans med Charlie Cutler inn 1915. På en måte, hva brenner

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House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Desember 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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Januar 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. I et tema samfunnet har kjempet med siden begynnelsen av

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Pesek Palm Strikes Rickard fra Wrestling

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På slutten av 1910-tallet, profesjonelle brytere booket brytere i arbeidede eller forhåndsarrangerte brytekamper. Occasionally, vanligvis som et resultat av et dobbeltkryss, fans ville se en faktisk konkurranse eller “shoot” kamp mellom bryterne. En av disse kampene skjedde sent 1921 og oppsto fra en feide mellom Tex Rickard, først og fremst en boksepromoter, og Jack

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