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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. Tuy nhiên, 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 được coi là một trong những bảng lớn nhất đối với máy bay chiến đấu bảng của tất cả các thời gian. Born on March 4, 1883 ở Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he is considered the greatest Canadian boxer of all time. His fighting career stretched from 1900 để 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Ông
Gorilla (1939) là một bộ phim hài-bí ẩn “B” bộ phim với sự tham gia Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi và Lionell Atwill. Bộ phim được sản xuất bởi Twentieth-Century Fox trước khi họ bỏ ra “B” phim, the first film on a double bill. Ritz Brothers là hoạt động giữa 1925 và năm 1960, khi Al Ritz người anh cả đã qua đời. Hai anh em đã
Vào ngày 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 but remained out of the spotlight until
Vào ngày 7, 1908, Charles Olson met “Americus” Gus Schonlein for the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. The match proved to be as exciting as observers suspected it would be but it ended in controversy. Olson stood 6’01” but weighed only 170 bảng. Born Max Flaskamp in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1879, he took the name Charles or Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 bảng. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Tuy nhiên, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, who traveled to America to take on Frank Gotch after he defeated
Giáng sinh Đêm trên 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko met Giovanni Raicievich in a much-anticipated heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, who was campaigning for a rematch with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, agreed to throw Raicevich 3 times in 90 minutes or be declared the loser. As the men entered the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, Zbyszko was clearly the
Ngày 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Claims to the championship were very murky at the time. Thuggery and dirty tricks often obscured who was actually American Champion. Jem Mace, who was considered World Champion twice while fighting in England, was signed to meet Tom
Ed “Strangler” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. Đồ dùng móc đá lên cao’ 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. He finally secured