Did Lewis Telfa Drunken 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 liri, 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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Zbyszko and Lewis Start Riot

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Dwar 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. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” logħbiet. 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 Jegħleb ir-Russu

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Frank J. Quinn, a lokali St. Louis avukat, serva bħala l-manager għal wrestlers professjonali George Baptise, Charley Olson u Fred Beell. Oriġinarjament ammiratur ta' George Baptiste, li kien leġġenda fis-St. Louis lokal madwar Cook u Vandeventer Avenue. Baptiste kien jimpjega lil Quinn bħala maxtura tiegħu u aktar tard avukat għall-kumpanija tiegħu tat-tinda u tal-awning. During his

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British Intelligence (1940)

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Fuq Jannar 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. Il-pjan ta’ Rachmann biex jistabbilixxi Aberg kien sejjer kif ippjanat wara li beda t-turnament

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Burns jiċħad assoċjazzjoni ma' Stecher

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In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, li ħarreġ u mexxa lil Frank Gotch għall-Kampjonat Dinji tal-Heavyweight, beda jiċħad li żviluppa ċ-Champion kurrenti Amerikan tal-Heavyweight Joe Stecher. It-talba dehret stramba minħabba li Burns kien ilu jaħdem ma’ Stecher għal diversi snin. Burns għen biex jipprepara lil Stecher għall-ġlieda tiegħu tal-kampjonat ma' Charlie Cutler ġewwa 1915. B'xi mod, dak Burns

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House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Fuq Diċembru 1, 1944, Universal Pictures released the latest horror film in the Frankenstein series, House of Frankenstein, with an all-star cast. Boris Karloff, who originally played Frankenstein’s monster, returns to the series as the mad scientist Dr. Niemann. An earthquake releases him and his hunchbacked assistant Daniel from prison. Dr. Niemann beħsiebu jeżiġi vendetta fuq l-irġiel li

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Tom Allen Jegħleb lil Mike McCoole għat-Titolu

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Filwaqt li bare knuckle prizefighter Tom Allen twieled fl-Ingilterra matul 1840, qatta’ l-ma;;oranza tal-[ajja adulta tieg[u f’St Louis wara li rriloka fl-Istati Uniti fi 1867. Wara telfa diżappuntanti kontra Jem Mace fil 1870, fejn impressjona lill-ispettaturi bi prestazzjoni galanti fi sforz telliefa, Allen beda jikkampanja għal sparatura lejn l-Amerika

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Metropolis (1927)

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Fuq Jannar 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stilla. It is #104 on the Top 250. F'tema s-soċjetà ġġieldet magħha mill-bidu tal-

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