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Abenduaren on 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. Urtean 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. Gurutze bikoitzaren jatorria Ed-rekin partida batean hasi zen “Strangler” Lewis Madison Square Garden-en ekainean 9, 1932. Partida hau aurrez prestatutako erakusketa izan zen bitartean, the wrestlers had been in discussion about Lewis dropping the belt
Munduko Luma Pisuko Boxeo Txapeldun gisa egin zuen lehen lasterketan, Abe Attell-ek St. Louis, Missouri. Bere kanpamendua St-en izateaz gain. Louis, Attellek hainbat aldiz defendatu zuen bere titulua St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. At the time, St. Louis Estatu Batuetako Mississippi ibaiaren mendebaldeko hiririk handiena zen. Abraham Washington Attell jaio zen
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons boxeolari ingelesa zen, pisu ertain eztabaidaezina irabazi zuena, pisu astunak eta pisu arinak munduko txapelketak, mendearen amaieran. Askotan australiar batekin nahastuta, han hasi baitzuen bere boxeo ibilbidea, Fitzsimmonsek Estatu Batuetara bidaiatu zuen 1890 pisu ertaineko txapelketarako kanpaina egiteko. Fitzsimmons azpian zegoen 6 oinak altu baina
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
Maiatzaren On 21, 1915, Nazioarteko Borroka Txapelketan New Yorken hasi zen. Samuel Rachman gertaera bultzatutako Europar greko-erromatar Borroka txapelduna Alek Aberg erakuts modu bat bezala. Rachman sinetsi Aberg Munduko Borroka txapelduna Frank Gotch oinordeko naturala zen, duten erretiratu 1913. Txapelketa lehen egunean, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up
The April 12, 1887 St edizioa. 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 libera, was a ferocious wrestler. The bout should have been