Reiðhestur og Zbyszko Battle að Draw

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At the beginning of 1911, the wrestling public considered three men to be the greatest challenge to reigning World Champion Frank Gotch. Former champion George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko and “The Terrible Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, ákvað að taka eitthvað af sterkjunni úr áskorendum sínum með því að passa þá upp

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Frankie Darro í írska Luck (1939)

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Frankie Darro og Mantan Moreland voru pöruð saman í fyrsta skipti í þessari alþjóðlegu leigutaka, Ltd (Monogram Myndir) kvikmynd, Írska Luck (1939). Í myndinni (tengja hlekkur), Frankie Darro spilaður “Buzzy” O'Brien, a hótel vikapiltur, meðan Mantan Moreland er Jefferson, hótelið Porter. “Buzzy’s” father was a police officer killed in the line of duty. “Buzzy” wants to be

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Gotch Tries Boxing

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An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, which is why both promoters

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Jack Johnson og The Fight aldarinnar

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After Jack Johnson became champion, a lack of strong contenders caused public pressure to mount on James J. Jeffires, af störfum fyrrum þungavigtar meistari, to end his retirement and fight Johnson. Jeffries was considered the first and most credible of the “White Hope” keppinautur. Í blóma sínum, Jeffries probably couldn’t beat Johnson. Á 35 years of age and nearly 300

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Ira Cooper Unravels Money Order Theft

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On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Upphaflega, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Louis Police Department. When the bank association turned over the

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