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Ar Ragfyr 14, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament was coming to a close. A featured match revealed promoter Samuel Rachmann was manipulating outcomes to keep interest in his tournament. After the wrestling public lost complete interest in the tournament during its opening few months in the spring, Rachmann introduced one of the most successful gimmicks in professional wrestling history. Rachmann
Monte Attell was the younger brother of World Featherweight Boxing Champion Abe Attell. Monte would always be stuck in the shadow of his older brother but was a talented fighter in his own right. Monte would win the World Bantamweight Boxing Championship during his career and establish himself as a world class fighter. Yn 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) released After The Thin Man (1936), the sequel to the popular Thin Man (1934), on Christmas Day 1936. The film is one of 14 films William Powell and Myrna Loy made together. Powell and Loy play Dashiell Hammet’s characters Nick and Nora Charles respectively. Nick Charles formerly worked as a private detective before marrying the wealthy heiress Nora.
Georg Lurich made his reputation as a professional wrestler competing in European Greco-Roman wrestling tournaments. When Lurich travelled to the United States to ply his trade, he made the transition to catch-as-catch-can wrestling, the dominant style outside of Europe. Lurich adapted well to this style and earned a shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, Frank Gotch, in Gotch’s last
This week’s post is to finish up the story of the double cross involving Dick Shikat and Danno O’Mahony. The origins for the double cross actually began in a match with Ed “Strangler” Lewis in Madison Square Garden on June 9, 1932. While this match was a prearranged exhibition, the wrestlers had been in discussion about Lewis dropping the belt
Yn ystod ei rediad cyntaf fel Pencampwr Bocsio Pwysau Pwysau'r Byd, Roedd Abe Attell wedi'i leoli allan o St.. Louis, Missouri. Ar wahân i gael ei wersyll yn St.. Louis, Amddiffynnodd Attell ei deitl sawl gwaith yn St.. Louis’ Clwb Athletau West End. At the time, St. Louis oedd y ddinas fwyaf i'r gorllewin o Afon Mississippi yn yr Unol Daleithiau. Ganwyd Abraham Washington Attell
Bob “Rudy Robert” Paffiwr o Loegr oedd Fitzsimmons, a enillodd y pwysau canol diamheuol, pencampwriaethau byd pwysau trwm a phwysau ysgafn, ar droad yr 20fed Ganrif. Yn aml yn cael ei gamgymryd am Awstraliad oherwydd iddo ddechrau ei yrfa focsio yno, Teithiodd Fitzsimmons i'r Unol Daleithiau yn 1890 ymgyrchu am y bencampwriaeth pwysau canol. Safai Fitzsimmons ychydig yn is 6 feet tall but
Fritz Lang made one of his early crime films in 1922. He directed Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), which ran approximately four hours and thirty minutes. It tells the story of Dr. Mabuse, a professor of psychoanalysis. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. In his multiple
Ar Fai 21, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament began in New York. Samuel Rachman promoted the event as a way to showcase European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alek Aberg. Rachman believed Aberg was the natural successor to World Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, who retired in 1913. On the first day of the tournament, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up
The April 12, 1887 argraffiad y Santes. Paul Daily Globe carried a story about the bout between feared professional wrestlers, Evan “Strangler” Lewis and “Little Demon” Joe Acton. Other wrestlers feared Lewis’ ability as a submission expert particularly his abilities with the stranglehold. Joe Acton, while undersized at 150 bunnoedd, was a ferocious wrestler. The bout should have been