Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Aprila 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” tekme. 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 premaga Rusa

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Frank J. Quinn, domačin St. Louis odvetnik, služil kot menedžer za profesionalne rokoborce George Baptise, Charley Olson in Fred Beell. Prvotno oboževalec Georgea Baptista, ki je bil legenda v St. Louis okoli avenij Cook in Vandeventer. Baptiste bi zaposlil Quinna kot svojega vodjo in kasneje odvetnika za svoje podjetje za šotore in platnene strehe. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Januarja 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. Medtem ko britanski

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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. Rachmannov načrt za ustanovitev Aberga je po začetku turnirja potekal po načrtih

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Burns zanika povezavo s Stecherjem

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In early 1916, Martin “Kmet” Burns, ki je treniral in vodil Franka Gotcha do naslova svetovnega prvaka v težki kategoriji, začel zanikati, da je razvil trenutnega ameriškega prvaka v težki kategoriji Joeja Stecherja. Trditev se je zdela nenavadna, saj je Burns s Stecherjem sodeloval že več let. Burns je Stecherju pomagal pripraviti na njegov dvoboj za naslov prvaka s Charliejem Cutlerjem 1915. Na nek način, kaj Burns

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House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Decembra 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 se namerava maščevati moškim, ki

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Tom Allen ustreli pokrovitelja

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Tom Allen se je rodil v Birminghamu, England on April 23, 1840 vendar je zaslovel kot goli borec v težki kategoriji v Ameriki. Naselitev v St. Louis around 1867, Allen je osvojil naslov ameriškega prvaka v težki kategoriji v 1873 in držal naziv do 1876. Vrnil se je v Anglijo za eno leto, preden se je vrnil v St. Louis za vedno noter 1878. Back

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Pesek Palm Strikes Rickard iz Wrestlinga

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Do konca 1910, profesionalni rokoborski promotorji so rezervirali rokoborce za pripravljene ali vnaprej dogovorjene rokoborbe. Occasionally, običajno kot posledica dvojnega križa, navijači bi videli dejansko tekmovanje oz “shoot” tekma med rokoborci. Ena od teh tekem se je zgodila pozno 1921 in je nastal iz spora med Texom Rickardom, predvsem promotor boksa, in Jack

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