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Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Men, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford betragtes som en af de største pund for pund krigere af hele tiden. Født i marts 4, 1883 i Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, han betragtes som den største canadiske bokser gennem tiderne. Hans kampkarriere strakte sig fra 1900 til 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Han
Gorilla (1939) er en komedie-mysterium “B” film stjernespækket Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi og Lionell Atwill. Filmen blev produceret af Twentieth-Century Fox, før de afslutter making “B” film, the first film on a double bill. The Ritz Brothers var aktive mellem 1925 og 1960'erne, when Al Ritz the oldest brother passed away. The brothers made
Oktober 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship men forblev ude af rampelyset indtil
På November 7, 1908, Charles Olson mødte “Americus” Gus Schonlein til World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Kampen viste sig at være lige så spændende, som observatører havde mistanke om, den ville være, men den endte i kontrovers. Olson blev 6’01” men vejede kun 170 pounds. Født Max Flaskamp i Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen i 1879, han tog navnet Charles eller Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 pounds. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Men, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, der rejste til Amerika for at tage imod Frank Gotch, efter at han havde besejret
Julenat 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko mødte Giovanni Raicievich i en længe ventet sværvægtsbrydningskamp. Zbyszko, som kæmpede for en omkamp med verdensmester i sværvægtsbrydning Frank Gotch, gik med til at smide Raicevich 3 gange ind 90 minutter eller blive erklæret som taber. Da mændene trådte ind i den berømte Madison Square Garden i New York City, Zbyszko var tydeligvis den
Den maj 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Kravene til mesterskabet var meget skumle på det tidspunkt. Bølleri og beskidte tricks slørede ofte, hvem der egentlig var amerikansk mester. Jem Mace, som blev betragtet som verdensmester to gange, mens han kæmpede i England, blev underskrevet for at møde Tom
Ed “Strangler” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, which Lewis started using as promoters and wrestlers transitioned professional wrestling to a prearranged or “worked” exhibition. Lewis originally used the front face lock or guillotine choke. Lewis’ namesake Evan “Strangler” Lewis made the front face lock or
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Han sikrede sig endelig