Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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Samana päivänä Joe Stecher paini Stanislaus Zbyszkon arvostetulle versiolle raskaansarjan painin maailmanmestaruuskilpailuista St.. Ludvig, EdStrangler” Lewis challenged “Iso” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and

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Spooks Run Wild (1941)

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Lokakuun 24, 1941, Monogram Pictures released Spooks Run Wild starring the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi. At this point in his career, Bela Lugosi was relegated to “B” elokuvat. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan play the leaders

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Oliko Lewis Defeat Drunken Wrestler?

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 kiloa, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Lewis’ maine liittyi vahvasti hänen pelättyihin

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Huhtikuun 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” tulitikut. 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 voittaa venäjän

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Frank J. Quinn, paikallinen St. Louis asianajaja, toimi johtajana ammattipainijoille George Baptise, Charley Olson ja Fred Beell. Alunperin George Baptisten ihailija, joka oli legenda St. Louisin naapurustossa Cook- ja Vandeventer Avenues -kaduilla. Baptiste palkkasi Quinnin seimekseen ja myöhemmin asianajajaksi teltta- ja markiisiyhtiönsä. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Tammikuu 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. Rachmannin suunnitelma Abergin perustamiseksi eteni suunnitelmien mukaan turnauksen alkamisen jälkeen

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Burns Denies Association with Stecher

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Alkuvuodesta 1916, Räystäspääsky “Viljelijä” Burns, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns

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