Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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Pada hari yang sama Joe Stecher bergelut dengan Stanislaus Zbyszko untuk versi diiktiraf Kejohanan Gusti Heavyweight Dunia di St.. Louis, EdStrangler” Lewis challenged “Besar” 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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Pada bulan Oktober 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” filem. 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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Adakah Lewis Kalahkan Drunken gusti?

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 pound, 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’ reputation was strongly related to his feared

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Pada April 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” perlawanan. 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 Mengalahkan Bahasa Rusia

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Frank J. Quinn, sebuah St. peguam Louis, berkhidmat sebagai pengurus untuk ahli gusti profesional George Baptise, Charley Olson dan Fred Beell. Pada asalnya pengagum George Baptiste, yang merupakan legenda di St. Louis di sekitar Cook dan Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste akan mengambil Quinn sebagai palungannya dan kemudiannya peguam untuk khemah dan syarikat awningnya. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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On January 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. Manakala 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. Rancangan Rachmann untuk menubuhkan Aberg berjalan seperti yang dirancang selepas kejohanan bermula

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Burns Nafi Persatuan dengan Stecher

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In early 1916, Martin “Petani” Burns, yang melatih dan menguruskan Frank Gotch ke Kejohanan Heavyweight Dunia, mula menafikan bahawa dia membangunkan Juara Heavyweight Amerika semasa Joe Stecher. Tuntutan itu kelihatan pelik kerana Burns telah bekerja dengan Stecher selama beberapa tahun. Burns membantu menyediakan Stecher untuk pertarungan kejuaraannya dengan Charlie Cutler 1915. Dalam satu cara, apa yang Terbakar

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