Skąd Alex Aberg Die?

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Postanowiłem zacząć 2020 używając dwóch przykładów z wrestlingu zawodowego, aby omówić, dlaczego miałbyś zmienić historię, którą napisałeś w przeszłości. W pisaniu historii, jesteś ograniczony przez dostępne źródła na ten temat. Źródła pierwotne, takie jak pamiętniki, oficjalne dokumenty i autobiografie są bardzo cenne. Inne źródła, takie jak gazety, również są dobre, ale

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Czy Lewis Pokonaj Drunken Wrestler?

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Evan “Dusiciel” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 funtów, Chwytak’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Chwytak’ reputacja była silnie związana z tym, czego się obawiał

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Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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Tego samego dnia Joe Stecher walczył ze Stanisławem Zbyszkiem o uznaną wersję mistrzostw świata w wadze ciężkiej w zapasach w St.. Louis, I “Dusiciel” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. 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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Marzec 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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W kwietniu 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Dusiciel” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” mecze. 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 Beats Russian

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Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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On January 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. While British

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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. Po rozpoczęciu turnieju plan Rachmanna dotyczący założenia firmy Aberg przebiegał zgodnie z planem

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