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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Ali Lewis Poraz pijani Wrestler?

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 funtov, Lewis’ 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. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared

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Lewis Takes Title Back from Munn

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On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, In “Strangler” 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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Marca 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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Aprila 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” tekme. 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 premaga Rusa

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Frank J. Quinn, domačin St. Louis odvetnik, služil kot menedžer za profesionalne rokoborce George Baptise, Charley Olson in Fred Beell. Prvotno oboževalec Georgea Baptista, ki je bil legenda v St. Louis okoli avenij Cook in Vandeventer. Baptiste bi zaposlil Quinna kot svojega vodjo in kasneje odvetnika za svoje podjetje za šotore in platnene strehe. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Januarja 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. Medtem ko britanski

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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. Rachmannov načrt za ustanovitev Aberga je po začetku turnirja potekal po načrtih

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