St. Louis Wrestler Surprises Gotch

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Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “worked” matches thrown in the mix. By 1904 vel 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,

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Petrus Jackson Pugnat Francus Slavin

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Feria, Jube 30, 1892, magnus Petrus Jackson praecavatus caestus pristino praesidio Frank Slavin. Ambo viri habitaverunt et pugnaverunt in Australia, quamquam interest ventilationis Alciati ad mundum lustrandum ut occasiones oeconomicas in Civitatibus Foederatis et Angliae circumvenientibus duxerit. Ut in Australia, Jackson saepe invenerunt pugilum album pugnare nolebant. pauci

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Fred Beell Overcomes Old Champ

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Octobris 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) Sed vestibulum arcu sed ex vestibulum donec

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Americus Beat Charley Olson

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Novembres 7, 1908, Carolus Olson met “Americus” Gus Schonlein pro mundo lux Gravis palaestrae Championship. Certamen probatum est sicut spectatores excitandi suspicati sunt fore, sed in controversia finitum est. Olson stetit 6’01” sed pensari modo 170 pondo. Natus Carolus Flaskamp in Krefeld, Rheno-Westphalia septentrionalis in 1879, nomen accepit Carolus vel Charley Olson

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