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Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 pounds, 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
Sa Abril 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. While they were supposed to be working the match, Lewis and Wladek Zbyszko struggled to work together. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. Sa
Frank J. Quinn, isang lokal na St. Abogado ni Louis, nagsilbi bilang manager para sa mga propesyonal na wrestler na si George Baptise, Sina Charley Olson at Fred Beell. Orihinal na isang admirer ni George Baptiste, na isang alamat sa St. Louis kapitbahayan sa paligid ng Cook at Vandeventer Avenues. Gagamitin ni Baptiste si Quinn bilang kanyang sabsaban at mamaya abugado para sa kanyang tolda at awning na kumpanya. During his
Sa Enero 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
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. Ang plano ni Rachmann para sa pagtatatag ng Aberg ay natuloy ayon sa plano pagkatapos magsimula ang paligsahan
Noong unang bahagi ng 1916, Martin “Magsasaka” Burns, na nagsanay at namamahala kay Frank Gotch sa World Heavyweight Championship, nagsimulang tanggihan na siya ang bumuo ng kasalukuyang American Heavyweight Champion na si Joe Stecher. Ang pag-angkin ay tila kakaiba dahil si Burns ay nagtatrabaho sa Stecher sa loob ng ilang taon. Tumulong si Burns na ihanda si Stecher para sa kanyang championship bout kay Charlie Cutler 1915. Sa isang paraan, kung ano ang Burns
Sa December 1, 1944, Universal Pictures released the latest horror film in the Frankenstein series, House of Frankenstein, with an all-star cast. Boris Karloff, who originally played Frankenstein’s monster, returns to the series as the mad scientist Dr. Niemann. An earthquake releases him and his hunchbacked assistant Daniel from prison. Dr. Niemann intends to exact revenge on the men who
Habang ang hubad na buko prizefighter na si Tom Allen ay ipinanganak sa England noong 1840, ginugol niya ang karamihan sa kanyang pang-adultong buhay sa St Louis pagkatapos lumipat sa Estados Unidos noong 1867. Matapos ang isang nakakadismaya na pagkatalo kay Jem Mace 1870, kung saan pinahanga niya ang mga manonood sa isang magagaling na pagganap sa isang natatalo na pagsisikap, Nagsimulang mangampanya si Allen para sa isang pagbaril sa Amerikano
Sa Enero 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Ipinanganak si Tom Allen sa Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 ngunit siya ay naging sikat bilang isang heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter sa America. Naninirahan sa St. Louis around 1867, Nanalo si Allen sa American Heavyweight Championship noong 1873 at hinawakan ang pamagat hanggang 1876. Bumalik siya sa England sa loob ng isang taon bago bumalik sa St. Louis for good in 1878. Back