How Did Alex Aberg Die?

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I decided to start 2020 by using two examples from professional wrestling to discuss why you would change a historical account you wrote in the past. In writing history, you are limited by the available sources on the subject matter. Primary sources like diaries, official records and autobiographies are very valuable. Other sources like newspapers are good as well but

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Será que Lewis Derrota Drunken Wrestler?

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Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis era un competidor asustado. Aínda que el non era un home grande, a 5’09” e pesou 170 libras, Lewis’ mestría de submissões fixo del un iguais ou mellores da maioría dos loitadores da súa época. Jack Carkeek era un loitador fantástico, pero un xogo con Lewis case o levou a aposentar. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared

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Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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O mesmo día Joe Stecher loitou contra Stanislaus Zbyszko pola versión recoñecida do World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship en St.. Louis, E “Estrangulador” Lewis challenged “Gran” Wayne Munn polo seu Championship Wrestling Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight disputada,,en,Lewis perdeu o título para Munn en febreiro,,en,Zbyszko derrotado Munn nunha famosa dobre-cross,,en,A partida entre,,en,acende,,en,esta semana o que significa que o meu bebé se tornou un home,,en,Eu normalmente non me sinto vello pero faime entender o tempo está voando,,en,Vostede segue a evolucionar para unha nova independente trazar o seu propio camiño,,en,Vai facer ben na vida, sempre que permanecer fiel aos seus principios,,en,Retos son temporais,,en. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and

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Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

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En marzo 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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En abril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” fósforo. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling

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Charley Olson vence ao ruso

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Frank J. Quinn, un local de St. Luis avogado, serviu como xestor dos loitadores profesionais George Baptise, Charley Olson e Fred Beell. Orixinalmente un admirador de George Baptiste, que era unha lenda no St. Louis en torno ás avenidas Cook e Vandeventer. Baptiste empregaría a Quinn como o seu xestor e posteriormente avogado da súa empresa de tendas e toldos. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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En xaneiro de 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Mentres británico

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Masked Marvel To The Rescue

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Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. O plan de Rachmann para establecer Aberg ía como estaba previsto despois do inicio do torneo

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