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April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Joe Acton var en av Englands beste brytere på 1800-tallet. 151-pound Acton went through England’s middleweight ranks before plowing through the heavyweights. After beating the best England had to offer including Tom Cannon, Acton decided to test his abilities in the United States. Joe Acton settled in Philadelphia at Arthur Chamber’s Champions Rest during the summer months of
During the 19th century, both prizefighters and duelists took advantage of the sandbar islands in the Mississippi River, around St. Louis, Missouri, to hold prizefights or duels. Authorities have frowned on duels to the death in any location. However, both Illinois and Missouri also outlawed prizefighting. Bloody Island in the middle of the Mississippi River just north of Downtown St.
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “worked” matches thrown in the mix. Av 1904 eller 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
Januar 10, 1940, Rowland V. Lee released his low-budget feature film The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) through United Artists. Rowland V. Lee started directing films in 1920 and would make 59 films before retiring in 1945. I denne filmen, Louis Hayward plays The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes, Jr. Greven arver farens penger og
På mandag, May 30, 1892, den store Peter Jackson bokset en hanskekamp med tidligere protesjé Frank Slavin. Begge mennene bodde og kjempet i Australia, selv om interessen fra fansen førte til at Jackson reiste verden rundt for å utnytte de økonomiske mulighetene i USA og England. Som i Australia, Jackson fant ofte at hvite boksere var uvillige til å kjempe mot ham. Få
St. Louis, på begynnelsen av det 20. århundre, hadde en fremtredende profesjonell boksing scene. Abe Attell, selv født i San Francisco, var basert på St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell forsvarte sin verdensFjær Boxing Championship mot hyppig rival Harry Forbes. Forbes var også en vanlig på St. Louis boksing scene. Forbes beseiret Danny Dougherty for
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. However, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford regnes som en av de største pound for pound jagerfly av all tid. Født på Mars 4, 1883 i Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Han regnes som den største kanadiske bokseren gjennom tidene. Hans kamp karriere strakte seg fra 1900 til 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. He
Gorilla (1939) er en komedie-mysteriet “B” film med Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi og Lionell Atwill. Filmen ble produsert av Twentieth-Century Fox før de sluttet å lage “B” filmer, the first film on a double bill. Ritz Brothers var aktive mellom 1925 og 1960-tallet, når Al Ritz den eldste bror gikk bort. Brødrene laget
Oktober 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship men forble ute av rampelyset til