Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight

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Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Louis

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Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” v St. Louis during the 1904 Sejem na svetu. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 v Chicagu,

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Način življenja v zdravje in moč

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Način življenja v zdravje in moč (podružnica povezava) avtorja Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 let do izgube svojega

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Amaterski Sleuth ulov Dynamitards

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V nedeljo zjutraj, Avgust 12, 1900, St. Louis Policija aretirala štiri nekdanje Tramvaj delavce Transit Line za razstrelitev je Olive Street črto na Maryland Avenue med N. Taylor in N. Euclid Avenije na prejšnjo noč na 11:00 p.m. Policija je aretirala Maurice Brennan, In Fred. Northway, James Schwartz in James Finnesey. Ugotovila policija 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet

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