Farmer Burns Wears Out Jack King

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Martin “Boer” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Echter, Burns was een groot worstelaar in zijn eigen recht. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “De Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. In 1893, Burns was still

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Stanislaus Zbyszko’s Greatest Match?

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No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. He began wrestling when the pro game was still an actual competition. He continued to be successful after the game changed to worked (prearranged) matches. In werkelijkheid, hij nam deel aan een schietwedstrijd, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 door zijn promotors te bedriegen.

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Lewis Drops Title to Sonnenberg

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En “Worger” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. In 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,

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The Woman in Green (1945)

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The Woman in Green (1945) is the ninth of twelve Sherlock Holmes produced by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone returns as Holmes in the eleventh of fourteen turns as the English sleuth. The film is one of the few “B” series films, which could have been an “Een” film. Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of several young London women. After they

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Alex Aberg keert terug naar Europa

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Alex Aberg versloeg vele opmerkelijke vijanden in het beste jaar van zijn professionele worstelcarrière. In 1915, Aberg nam deel aan zowel de lente- als de herfstversie van het New York International Wrestling Tournament. Exclusief concurreren in zijn favoriete stijl van Grieks-Romeins worstelen, Aberg versloeg Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko en Ed “Worger” Lewis samen met een aantal gezelworstelaars.

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House of Fear (1945)

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Op maart 16, 1945, Universal Pictures released The House of Fear (1945), the eighth of twelve Sherlock Holmes films produced by the studio. Basil Rathbone returned as Holmes for the tenth time. Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes twice for Twentieth Century – Fox before Universal started producing the series. Despite its late entry into the series, de film (affiliate link) stands

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Schok, Volume 1

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I recently read Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, Volume 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazon-affiliatielink), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “Schok” translates toshockingin Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,

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