Episode 88 – Memorial Day

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In deze aflevering, I discuss why promoters liked to schedule big cards for holidays.

-Update

The reach of the podcast continues to amaze me. Besides the United States, listeners have downloaded episodes in the Netherlands, Seychelles, Turkey, Canada, Duitsland, Finland, United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, Estonia, France, Ierland, and Poland. I will try to release more episodes going forward.

I have finished The Divided Championship Era. I will release it in the first or second week of June 2025.

I will be focusing on updating a second edition of St. Louis’ Burgeroorlog: De Streetcar Staking van 1900 before starting on my next combat sports project.

Hoofd-inhoud

The history of Decoration/Memorial Day in the United States

Emil Klank, De manager van Frank Gotch, wanted to schedule Gotch’s match with Stanislaus Zbyszko on Decoration Day, Mei 30, 1910.

Echter, Chicago’s mayor refused to issue the permit because it would distract fans from decorating their relatives’ graves.

Why promoters preferred to schedule big matches for holidays. The big crowds who came out to matches on Labor Day 1911 en juli 4, 1916.

Recommendations

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (affiliate link) by Rebecca Skloot

Sabu vs. Tazz leading into ECW’s First Pay-per-View, Barely Legal 1997.

Beoordeling

UWF TV for October 25, 1986

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