Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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Le même jour, Joe Stecher affrontait Stanislaus Zbyszko pour la version reconnue du Championnat du monde de lutte poids lourd à St.. Louis, EdStrangler” Lewis challenged “Big” 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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On October 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” films. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall et Bobby Jordan jouent les leaders

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Lewis n'a Vaincre Drunken Wrestler?

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis était un concurrent effrayant. Bien qu'il ne était pas un grand homme à cinq’09” et pesé 170 livres, Lewis’ maîtrise des soumissions a fait de lui un égal ou mieux de la plupart des lutteurs de son époque. Jack Carkeek était un lutteur formidable, mais un match avec Lewis presque fit retraite. Lewis’ réputation était fortement liée à sa crainte

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Sur Avril 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” matches. 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 Beats Russian

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Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Sur Janvier 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. Le plan de Rachmann pour créer Aberg se déroulait comme prévu après le coup d’envoi du tournoi

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Burns nie toute association avec Stecher

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In early 1916, Hirondelle “Agriculteur” Burns, qui a entraîné et dirigé Frank Gotch pour le championnat du monde des poids lourds, a commencé à nier avoir développé l'actuel champion américain des poids lourds, Joe Stecher.. Cette affirmation semblait étrange car Burns travaillait avec Stecher depuis plusieurs années.. Burns a aidé à préparer Stecher pour son combat de championnat avec Charlie Cutler en 1915. Dans un sens, what Burns

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