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Decembrie 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. În 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
Postarea din această săptămână este de a finaliza povestea dublei încrucișări care i-a implicat pe Dick Shikat și Danno O’Mahony. Originile pentru dubla cruce au început de fapt într-un meci cu Ed “Strangler” Lewis în Madison Square Garden în iunie 9, 1932. În timp ce acest meci a fost o expoziție prestabilită, luptătorii discutaseră despre că Lewis a lăsat centura
În timpul primei curse ca campion mondial de box la greutatea plumii, Abe Attell avea sediul în St.. Louis, Missouri. Pe lângă faptul că își are tabăra în St.. Louis, Attell și-a apărat titlul de mai multe ori la St.. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. La momentul, St. Louis era cel mai mare oraș la vest de râul Mississippi din Statele Unite. Născut Abraham Washington Attell
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons a fost un boxer englez, care a câștigat la categoria medie incontestabilă, campionatele mondiale la categoria grea și la categoria semigrea, la începutul secolului al XX-lea. Adeseori confundat cu un australian pentru că și-a început cariera de box acolo, Fitzsimmons a călătorit în Statele Unite în 1890 să militeze pentru campionatul la categoria mijlocie. Fitzsimmons stătea chiar sub 6 feet tall but
Fritz Lang made one of his early crime films in 1922. He directed Dr. Maleuse: The Gambler (1922), which ran approximately four hours and thirty minutes. It tells the story of Dr. Maleuse, 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
La data de 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 ediția din St. 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 de lire sterline, was a ferocious wrestler. The bout should have been