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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Ang ibig Lewis talunin lango mambubuno?

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Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 pounds, 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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Sa parehong araw ay nakipagbuno si Joe Stecher kay Stanislaus Zbyszko para sa kinikilalang bersyon ng World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship sa St.. Louis, At “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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Jake Kilrain Knocked Out sa 21 Rounds

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Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on

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Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

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Sa Marso 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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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

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Sa Hulyo 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Kahit na si Georges Carpentier

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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Sa Abril 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” posporo. 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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Si Charley Olson Beats Ruso

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Frank J. Quinn, isang lokal na St. Abogado ni Louis, nagsilbi bilang manager para sa mga propesyonal na wrestler na si George Baptise, Sina Charley Olson at Fred Beell. Orihinal na isang admirer ni George Baptiste, na isang alamat sa St. Louis kapitbahayan sa paligid ng Cook at Vandeventer Avenues. Gagamitin ni Baptiste si Quinn bilang kanyang sabsaban at mamaya abugado para sa kanyang tolda at awning na kumpanya. During his

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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. Ang plano ni Rachmann para sa pagtatatag ng Aberg ay natuloy ayon sa plano pagkatapos magsimula ang paligsahan

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