插曲 80 – 暴露业务

三月 10, 2025 小肯·齐默尔曼. 播客

在这一集, I discuss how the Divided Championship Era began to expose the worked nature of professional wrestling.

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BBC recently made a decision about the BBC Sounds app that is truly irritating.

I will be giving a St. Louis history presentation at Eugene Field House 四月 5, 2025.

The Divided Championship Era book should be available in June 2025.

照片 “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” 刘易斯和乔·施切尔在他们之前 1928 比赛在圣. 路易 (公共领域)

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由 1927, pressure mounted on both Joe Stecher’s and Ed “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” Lewis’s camps to end the divided championship.

Newspaper reports about Jack Curley, 比利·桑多, and the Stecher Brothers controlling wrestling in certain states and territories appeared in summer 1927.

Fans also realized that Lewis and Stecher defended their respective titles in the same cities against the same opponents.

最后, Martin Slattery, the former manager of John “内布拉斯加虎人” Pesek gave the Illinois Athletic Commission damning information about the worked nature of professional wrestling.

The publicity did not negatively affect the box office but both camps started to worry that it might the longer the Divided Championship Era lasted.