George Baptiste Meets World Champion

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Të premten, Maj 12, 1905, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt toured the United States after defeating reigning American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. One of Hackenschmidt’s stops was the “Gateway to the West”, St. Louis, Misuri. Hackenschmidt agreed to throw three wrestlers in under 90 minuta. He accomplished this feat in less than 19 minutes after the third wrestler

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Kopra vrasëse (1947)

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Më gusht 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions released Killer Dill (1947), a crime film that professional wrestler Mike Mazurki plays “Little Joe”, a henchman playing both sides of a gang feud. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny “Killer” Dill, a lingerie designer and salesperson, who people mistake for a gangster. After accidentally involving himself in a gang war, e tij

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Santel Hurts Another Wrestler

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Ad Santel entered professional wrestling a generation too late. By the time he started wrestling in the 1910s, professional wrestling transitioned from contests to prearranged exhibitions. Santel possessed strong submission skills, which would have allowed him to beat most of the wrestlers in legitimate wrestling contests. Santel mori pjesë në disa gara legjitime me praktikuesit japonezë jujitsu. Ai përdori

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Archbishop Kenrick Celebrates 50 Vite

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Më gusht 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Në 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. Në 1847, the

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Stanislaus Zbyszko Tours në 1910

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Në fund 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko udhëtoi për në Shtetet e Bashkuara për të sfiduar Botëror Heavyweight Champion mundjes Frank Gotch. Para takimit Gotch, Zbyszko vizitoi Shtetet e Bashkuara dhe luftuan shumë mundësit lokale në të gjithë pjesën e hershme të 1910. Zbyszko do të udhëtojë 37,000 milje. Herët në turneun e tij, Zbyszko takua Frank Gotch në një ndeshje të metë. Zbyszko mundi Gotch, who was

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Ringer Throws Wasem

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Të shtunën, Nëntor 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minuta. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem i pushtuar

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Gotch Crushes Jenkins for Title

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Të enjten, Janar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins mbrojti kampionatin e tij amerikan të mundjes kundër një mundësi të ardhshëm nga Iowa. After the first fall, Tifozët e kuptuan se ishte ndeshja më e vështirë e Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins kishte mundur Gotch's

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Whistler and Ross Disgust Crowd

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After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Nëntor 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman

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