Cornelius O’Keefe Stops Burglar

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Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis tub ceevxwm. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready

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St. Louis Wrestler Surprises Gotch

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Frank Gotch tuas cov npe ntawm America cov loj tshaj tseeb kev wrestler. Gotch competed nyob tseeb feem coob txojkev uas muaj ob peb tug tos txheej txheem ntawm los “ua haujlwm” qhov yuam kev ces muab pov tseg rau hauv cov ntse. Los ntawm 1904 los sis 1905, tsis muaj leej twg yuav yeej tuav Gotch yog tias nws pub nws. Nyob rau thaum xyoo nws cov hauj lwm, Gotch yog tsis li ntawd, hom. Nws poob qhov yuam kev rau nws saib,

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Peter Jackson Fights Frank Slavin

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Hnub Monday, Tej zaum 30, 1892, Tus poj Peter Jackson boxed ib bout gloved bout nrog tus protégé Frank Slavin. Leej txiv neej nyob thiab fought nyob Australia, Txawm hais tias kiv cua txaus siab coj Jackson ncig xyuas lub ntiaj teb coj kom zoo dua cov nyiaj txiag hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas thiab hais. Raws li nyob rau Australia, Jackson feem ntau pom dawb boxers unwilling mus tua nws. mentsis

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Abe Attell xwb Forbes

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St. Louis, Thaum pib lub xyoo pua 20th, Muaj ib tug mas professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, Txawm hais tias yug hauv San Francisco, raws li nyob rau hauv St. Louis. Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 1, 1904, Attell defended nws ntiaj teb Featherweight Boxing Championship tiv thaiv rival Harry Forbes. Forbes no kuj yog ib tug mus tsis tu ncua rau lub St. Louis boxing scene. Forbes tua yeej Danny Dougherty rau lub

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Londos Defeats Kolov

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Jim Londos sawv los ntawm cov ranks ntawm kev wrestling ua lub biggest box office hnub qub uas tsis zoo xwb lub 1930s tab sis ntawm all-time. Txawm li cas los, Yog Londos twb tsis tuaj rau St. Louis hauv lub 1920s thaum ntxov, Zaj dabneeg yuav tau sib txawv heev. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during

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Sam Langford Welter Title Fights

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Sam Langford puas tau yog ib qhov loj tshaj quj quj fighters txhua lub sij hawm. Yug rau lub peb hlis ntuj 4, 1883 nyob rau hauv cov kev uas yuav ntog Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Nws yog qhov loj tshaj Canadian boxer txhua lub sij hawm. Nws ntaus hauj lwm stretched ntawm 1900 mus 1926. Langford tsuas sawv 5 taw rau thiab ib nrab nti siab thiab weighed 185 phaus thaum nws heaviest. Nws

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Fred Beell Overcomes qub Champ

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Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved nplaum dynamite tawm nyob rau hauv tej pob khoom me me. Beell, tau zus ib lub teeb heavyweight wrestling, tua yeej tus American heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod. Ib lub Beell parlayed 1906 rau hauv xwb tus American Heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod thiab tam sim no American Heavyweight tau zus ib Frank Gotch. Yeej tus American Middleweight Beell (Sib Heavyweight) Championship tab sis tseem nyob hauv qhov tsom teeb kom txog rau thaum

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Americus neeg ntaus Charley Olson

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Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 7, 1908, Charles Olson ntsib “Americus” Gus Schonlein rau lub ntiaj teb teeb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Ntais ntawv proved yuav exciting li observers tsam nws yuav tab sis nws twb nyob controversy. Olson sawv 6’01” tab sis weighed xwb 170 phaus. Yug Max Flaskamp hauv Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia nyob rau hauv 1879, Nws coj lub npe Charles los yog Charley Olson

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Gotch no yooj yim neeg ntaus Raicevich

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Giovanni Raicevich sawv 5 xwb’07” tiam sis siab weighed ib npag 220 phaus. Raicevich ris pro bodybuilder yam mob 50 xyoo ua ntej cov era steroid. Txawm li cas los, Thaum twg nws tuaj wrestling, Lub Raicevich tawm kev teeb twb tsis heev li no raws li nws physique. Raicevich yog ib yam txawv teb chaws wrestlers, Leej twg mus rau America coj rau Frank Gotch tom qab nws tua yeej

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Christmas hmo Wrestling Fiasco

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Nyob rau hmo Christmas 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko ntsib Giovanni Raicievich hauv ib npaum-ntseg heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, Uas yog campaigning rau ib rematch nrog ntiaj teb Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, pom zoo muab Raicevich 3 ntau zaus 90 feeb los yog tau txais tus loser. Raws li cov txiv neej nkag mus rau famed Madison Square vaj nyob New York City, Zbyszko yog kom meej meej qhov

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