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On April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis kæmpede sin sidste legitime konkurrence med Lee Wykoff
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Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, En bemærket "hooker" eller dygtig indsendelses wrestler, Mødte Taro
William Muldoon var verdensmester i sværvægt baseret på hans nederlag af Thiebaud Bauer i? Hvordan
On a March night in San Francisco, heavyweight contender Marvin Hart proved pure aggressiveness could sometimes win a decision. Efter 20 rounds of boxing, referee Greggains, the only judge, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart met Johnson on March 28, 1905. Johnson entered the ring as the betting favorite. Han meldte sig også ind som en af
Evan “Strangler” Lewis var en skræmmende konkurrent. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 pounds, Lewis’ beherskelse af indlæg gjorde ham en tilsvarende eller bedre for de fleste wrestlere i hans æra. Jack Carkeek var en fantastisk wrestler, men en kamp med Lewis næsten fik ham til at gå på pension. Lewis’ ry var stærkt
On April 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. Mens de skulle arbejde på kampen, Lewis og Wladek Zbyszko kæmpede for at arbejde sammen. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. I
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
Mike “Twin” Sullivan claimed the Welterweight World Boxing Championship, when he decisioned Honey Mellody in April 1907. Possessing both heavy hands and better than normal boxing skills, Sullivan claimed victories over the great Joe Gans and future Welterweight World Boxing Champion Harry Lewis during his career. Lewis won the welterweight title, when Sullivan could no longer make the 147 pound
In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns
Oktober 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. One of the men
While bare knuckle prizefighter Tom Allen was born in England during 1840, he spent the majority of his adult life in St Louis after relocating to the United States in 1867. After a disappointing loss to Jem Mace in 1870, where he impressed spectators with a gallant performance in a losing effort, Allen started campaigning for a shot at American
Tom Allen blev født i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev berømt som en sværvægter bar kno priskæmper i Amerika. Bosætter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vandt det amerikanske sværvægtsmesterskab i 1873 og holdt titlen indtil 1876. Han vendte tilbage til England i et år, før han vendte tilbage til St. Louis for godt i 1878. Back
By the end of the 1910s, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, usually as a result of a double cross, fans would see an actual contest or “shoot” match between the wrestlers. One of these matches occurred in late 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, primarily a boxing promoter, and Jack