Jim Browning Stars in Hometown

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Verona, Missouri is a small town in southwest Missouri. Never exceeding 900 residents in it’s history, only 438 or so people called Verona home in 1926. Nhưng, a professional wrestling card was held in the town on Monday, Diễu hành 22, 1926. Without the widespread use of automobiles or roads built to handle them, travel would be very difficult in 1926.

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Londos Outlasts Champion

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Vào thứ Sáu, Tháng Hai 17, 1922, World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko wrestled a handicap match against Francois Lemarque and up-and-coming star Jim Londos. Londos vẫn còn vài năm nữa mới trở thành nhân vật có doanh thu phòng vé lớn nhất trong môn đấu vật chuyên nghiệp nhưng anh ấy là đô vật nổi tiếng nhất ở St.. Louis. Trong khi Londos chỉ đứng khoảng 5’06” hoặc 5’07”, anh ấy sở hữu

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Gotch Avenges Loss

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On Sunday, Tháng mười hai 17, 1906, Kansas City, Missouri once more proved itself to be a hotbed for professional wrestling as 8,000 fans crammed Convention Hall to watch the rematch between Frank Gotch and Fred Beell. Beell won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Gotch three weeks earlier in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gotch claimed the loss to be a fluke, while

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Mooney Wrestles Luttbeg

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Vào ngày thứ bảy, December 2nd, 1893, local Saint Louis boxing instructor and Greco-Roman wrestler Mike Mooney met Max Luttbeg at Saint LouisEntertainment Hall. Pre-match hype focused on Mooney never losing a wrestling match or a boxing bout. Mooney was considered a better Greco-Roman wrestler, while Luttbeg was a better catch-as-catch-can wrestler. In the 19th century, it was common for matches

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“Toots” Mondt Dies in St. Louis

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On June 11, 1976, Người đàn ông chay tịnh “Toots” Mondt died enroute to Christian Northeast Hospital in North St. Louis County. Mondt had moved to St. Louis trong 1969 to help take care of his wife Alda’s mother. After her mother died in 1971, the Mondts decided to stay in St. Louis, where Alda had been born and raised. Mondt was a legendary

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Paddy Ryan Wins The Title

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The few people who know about the prizefighter Paddy Ryan probably know him as John L. Sullivan’s victim. Sullivan beat Ryan for the Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship in 1882. Ryan là một chiến binh giỏi theo đúng nghĩa của anh ấy. Ryan sinh vào tháng 3 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan được biết đến qua

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Remembering Wayne Munn

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Wayne “Lớn” Munn’s a meteoric rise in professional wrestling. Debuting in 1924, Munn “won” the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from EdStranglerLewis in early 1925. His fall was just as quick. Qua 1926, Munn was retired. A college football lineman from Nebraska, Munn was recruited into professional wrestling by Billy Sandow, defacto leader of the Gold Dust Trio. Các

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Beell Wins Title

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Fred Beell was a strong, talented professional wrestler at the turn of the 20th Century. Beell gave all the best wrestlers of the day tough contests but his lack of size often hampered his ability with world class wrestlers. Although powerfully built, Beell was generously listed at 5’06”. At his heaviest, Beell never exceeded 170 bảng. While possessing a bodybuilder’s

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Lewis and Roeber Unify Title

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When William Muldoon retired from professional wrestling in 1889, he intended for his protege, Ernst Roeber, to become the new World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Since Muldoon always defended his championship in the Greco-Roman wrestling style, his choice made sense. Roeber was arguably the best Greco-Roman wrestler in America at the time. Tuy nhiên, the wrestling fans and journalist, covering the sport,

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Wild Bill Longson giành lại danh hiệu

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Willard “hóa đơn hoang dã” Longson sinh ra ở thành phố Salt Lake, Utah, on June 8, 1906 nhưng đã dành phần lớn cuộc đời trưởng thành của mình ở St.. Louis, Missouri. Sau khi bắt đầu sự nghiệp của mình với tư cách là một đô vật chuyên nghiệp ở 1931, Longson thấy mình đang làm việc cho Tom Packs ở St.. Louis. Anh ấy chưa bao giờ thực sự rời đi vì đây sẽ là căn cứ của anh ấy trong thời gian còn lại.

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